Thanks for your feedback Michael,

We're not going to be updating to mainline OpenSSL in Ubuntu on their
release schedule. Every minor point release from OpenSSL invariably
includes either ABI changes that would require recompiling all software
that links against OpenSSL or other regressions that break existing
users.

Over the years we have had far more reliable results backporting
specific security fixes as they are prepared.

Many other vendors feel the same:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Versions
https://www.debian.org/security/faq#version
https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-3dad8cb98ac535185e58e882a23ca4b096cbff2f
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting

Thanks

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