On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> Greetings. I will likely be using features that only appear in "this new 
>> version" of OpenSSL in a project. There has been a question about whether 
>> the new features will really be in 1.0.1, because they are very clearly not 
>> in 1.0.0.
>> 
> 
> Which new features specifically? There will be many in 1.0.1 such as TLS v1.2
> support.

That's a good start, yes. :-) Supporting a new version of TLS seems like a good 
reason to call this a new version of OpenSSL.

>> Was there a discussion of the decision to add significant features but not 
>> go to 1.1? I'd like to review it before advocating for 1.1. (And, no, I am 
>> quite sure it is not too late to choose "1.1" for "this new version" if the 
>> community wants to do so during the beta testing.)
>> 
> 
> There was a discussion of the new versioning scheme some time ago.


I'm sure there was, but I can't find it easily in the archive. If "some time 
ago" means "past our memory boundary", this would be a good time to revive the 
discussion. If it means "it was discussed and finalized", it would be good to 
know what that final decision was.

--Paul Hoffman

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