Acked-by: Kai Ji <[email protected]> ________________________________ From: Akhil Goyal <[email protected]> Sent: 17 February 2026 14:40 To: Finn, Emma <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; Ji, Kai <[email protected]>; Hemant Agrawal <[email protected]>; Anoob Joseph <[email protected]>; Raslan Darawsheh <[email protected]>; Sunil Uttarwar <[email protected]>; Andrew Boyer <[email protected]>; Jack Bond-Preston <[email protected]>; Vikas Gupta <[email protected]>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo <[email protected]>; Nagadheeraj Rottela <[email protected]>; Matan Azrad <[email protected]>; Jay Zhou <[email protected]>; Hanxiao Li <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH] doc: deprecation of OpenSSL version 1.1.1
> OpenSSL 1.1.1 reached end-of-life in September 2023. Future > releases of DPDK will require minimum of OpenSSL 3.0. > > Signed-off-by: Emma Finn <[email protected]> > --- Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <[email protected]> Adding more PMD maintainers for acks. > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index ac667e91a6..fca556d07b 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Deprecation Notices > * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter > for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case. > > +* cryptodev: Support for OpenSSL versions earlier than 3.0 is deprecated > + and will be removed. OpenSSL 1.1.1 reached end-of-life in September 2023. > + The minimum supported OpenSSL version will be 3.0, > + and version checks for earlier OpenSSL versions will be removed from the > PMD. > + > * eal: The ``-c <coremask>`` commandline parameter is deprecated > and will be removed in a future release. > Use the ``-l <corelist>`` or ``--lcores=<corelist>`` parameters instead > -- > 2.43.0

