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From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Subject: Should we upgrade openssl?
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:10:44 -0400
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>From the openssl website:

> Note: The latest stable version is the 1.1.1 series. This is also our
> Long Term Support (LTS) version, supported until 11th September
> 2023. Our previous LTS version (1.0.2 series) will continue to be
> supported until 31st December 2019 (security fixes only during the
> last year of support). The 1.1.0 series is currently only receiving
> security fixes and will go out of support on 11th September 2019. All
> users of 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 are encouraged to upgrade to 1.1.1 as soon as
> possible. The 0.9.8, 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 versions are now out of support
> and should not be used.

I know, everyone's going to groan hearing this, but maybe given the
above it would make sense to upgrade to the openssl 1.1.0 series before
Guix 1.0 gets out the door?

I guess that would probably require a massive rebuild of core packages
though.

 - cwebb