[Development] SSL Plans for Qt 5.6

[Richard Moore]

On 21 February 2015 at 18:38, Konstantin Ritt <ritt.ks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-02-21 22:05 GMT+04:00 Richard Moore <rich at kde.org>:
>
>>
>> On 21 February 2015 at 17:34, Konstantin Ritt <ritt.ks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 2015-02-21 21:30 GMT+04:00 Richard Moore <rich at kde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Here's an outline of stuff I'd like to see get done in the Qt 5.6 time
>>>> frame:
>>>>
>>>> * Complete removal of openssl 0.9.8 support
>>>>
>>>> This has been unsupported for a while and was really only retained
>>>> since it is the only version apple ship on OS X (though they don't actually
>>>> recommend using it). Qt 5.5 introduces the new SecureTransport backend for
>>>> SSL so there's now no good reason to continue having all the ifdefs.
>>>> Openssl 0.9.8 will reach EOL in December anyway. In addition to removing
>>>> the support from the sources, I suspect this will involve some changes to
>>>> how the library is searched for when we use dlopen.
>>>>
>>>
>>> To me, it looks like a subject for 5.5. Why not?
>>>
>>>
>> 5.5 is already feature frozen.
>>
>
> The SecureTransport backend has been already introduced - that's a
> feature, a dep. library version bump is not :)
> Well, IMO.
>
>
This way we have a whole release cycle for people to try the
SecureTransport backend and report any problems, much as I'd love to remove
the 0.9.8 code already (after all I've already said I won't support it
quite some time ago) I think this is a reasonable balance.

Cheers

Rich.
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