Hey!

On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM Gordon Messmer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 2026-02-06 8:44 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> > I recently discovered that protobuf has not been rebased to new
> > version for 5 years!!! Sure, this is very special case and people
> > tried, but I also wonder. How many such packages exists.
>
>
> I recently noticed that OpenSSL wasn't tracking upstream releases for so
> long that Fedora 42, an active release, is using a release of OpenSSL
> that was EOL last November.
>
> Starting with the 3.5 release, non-LTS versions of OpenSSL will only be
> supported for 13 months, so this is much more likely to occur in the
> future.
>
> https://openssl-library.org/policies/releasestrat/index.html


As the OpenSSL maintainer, I don't see any problems with this. 3.2 was a
good release, and all Moderate+ CVE fixes were backported to Fedora 42.

Fedora 43/44 will have OpenSSL 3.5, and Fedora 445 I think will have
OpenSSL 4 which will not be LTS at all.

-- 
Dmitry Belyavskiy
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