[Python-Dev] Supported versions of OpenSSL (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Aug 30 12:00:35 EDT 2016

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:40:11 +0200 Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:

Here is the deal for 2.7 to 3.5: 1) All versions older than 0.9.8 are completely out-of-scope and no longer supported. 2) 0.9.8 is semi-support. Python will still compile and work with 0.9.8. However we do NOT promise that is secure to run 0.9.8. We also require a recent version. Patch level 0.9.8zc from October 2014 is reasonable because it comes with SCSV fallback (CVE-2014-3566). 3) 1.0.0 is irrelevant. Users are either stuck on 0.9.8 or are able to upgrade to 1.0.1+. Let's not support it. 4) 1.0.1 is discouraged but still supported until its EOL. 5) 1.0.2 is the recommend version. 6) 1.1 support will be added by #26470 soon. 7) LibreSSL 2.3 is supported but with a slightly limited feature set.

Can you expand briefly how "limited" the feature set is? Does it only disable some arcane features, so that e.g. asyncio + TLS supports works fine?

Other than that, it all sounds good to me.

Regards

Antoine.

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