OpenSSL is pleased to announce its participation as a Silver Sponsor at the upcoming International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC) 2024, taking place from 18th to 20th September. Visit our booth and attend our presentations to discover how we can help each other.
The freeze date for OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha is rapidly approaching.
Alpha freeze approaching
The freeze date for OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha is rapidly approaching. Planned features
are viewable on our 3.4 Planning page.
If you have a feature on the planning
page, please ensure that your associated PRs are posted, reviewed, and merged
prior to the freeze date (Friday, Aug 30, 2024), or it will be postponed until
the next release.
As part of our ongoing journey, OpenSSL is evolving to provide more opportunities for engagement that more effectively align with our mission statement and promote our values. OpenSSL is implementing various mechanisms to foster greater community involvement and enable our communities to play a key and active role in the decision-making process.
New Governance Framework
OpenSSL has two independent, co-equal organizations to support the OpenSSL Mission:
This year, OpenSSL will be attending RSA Conference 2024, one of the world’s
largest cybersecurity events. Throughout May 6-9 in San Francisco, we are
seeking to engage with our communities at RSA to better understand their needs
and problems.
The OpenSSL Project has returned from spending a week in February sequestered in the beautiful Australian outback discussing the past, current, and future state of the project. This in-person meeting brought together the project’s paid resources and the management committee. Our goal for this meeting was to chart the course for OpenSSL’s future, tackle current challenges, and note our collective achievements. Three project members were unable to participate in person and joined the meetings remotely.
We are pleased to announce that we have successfully distributed nearly 100 limited edition T-shirts commemorating the 25th anniversary of OpenSSL’s existence.
We appreciate the support of all our communities, users, individual contributors and support customers, without which we would not be able to continue our mission and deliver on our open source values. These continue to drive the success and evolution of OpenSSL, and we couldn’t be more appreciative.
This year, we had the privilege of participating in FOSDEM for the first time. This offered us an opportunity to engage with the open source community at the conference, share our insights, and learn from the vast pool of knowledge that FOSDEM brings together.
FOSDEM, short for Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, is an event that brings together thousands of open source developers, enthusiasts, and professionals from around the world. It’s a festival of knowledge, with workshops, talks, and sessions covering a myriad of topics from software development and security to hardware innovation and beyond.
As many of you are aware we have undergone a lot of internal organisation changes within the OpenSSL Project in the last couple of years, one of the key changes being the introduction of the OpenSSL Working Group.
In the February 2023 face-to-face meeting we decided to create the OpenSSL Working Group in an effort to be more efficient at addressing and executing on decisions made.
The WG was formed as an initiative to include more people into the OpenSSL decision making process and organize a place where OMC members, engineering, management, paid team members, and invited third parties all meet together and tackle urgent issues together and in a timely manner.
