[CentOS-devel] CentOS will support openssl 1.1.1 in future version of CentOS

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:02:16AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> It could go in EPEL or upstresm in RHEL's "Software Collections
> Library". But that would be a parallel build, available for alternate
> compilation, not an in-place replacement. An in-place replacement
> would be *hard*, and would probably be better slated for RHEL 8.

It *is* slated for RHEL 8, as you can see:
http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/rhel-8-beta/baseos/source/Packages/
contains openssl-1.1.1-6.el8.src.rpm.


> I've not heard any progress on that since the beta in November: My guess,
> as RHEL and thus CentOS has gotten larger and IBM bought Red Hat, is not
> to hope for RHEL 8 before June.

There is an agreement for IBM to purchase Red Hat; this has not happened yet
and has no impact on anything like this.

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Matthew Miller
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