[Interest] Qt 5.9 and OpenSSL 1.1?

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Donnerstag, 21. März 2019 10:16:35 CET René J. V. Bertin wrote:
> >> Actually, it doesn't: 5.9 support ends in May 2020, OpenSSL 1.0 in Dec
> >> 2019.> 
> > You're off by one year. 5.9.0 was released May 29, 2017.
> > 
> > (probably a bit later because we are able to
> > make the 5.9.9 release).
> 
> That means some of the dates in the wikipedia article are wrong... but not
> the EOL date :)
> And interesting that I apparently missed 2 releases, my version monitor
> mustn't be as reliable as I thought.
> 
> > > but I'm guessing Qt may not want to depend only on an OpenSSL variant
> > > that's EOL.
> > 
> > Except that it's not EOL. OpenSSL 1.0.2 is still officially supported
> > until
> > 2019-12-31.
> 
> "May want" as in the future, not "doesn't want" now.
> 
> > If you search the commit log, you'll see a number of OpenSSL 1.1 bugfixes.
> > 
> > PS: you should backport those fixes too.
> 
> Indeed! Are they all labelled OpenSSL, or should I rather look at the log
> for the network/ssl folder hope I catch everything?
> Are all fixes in 5.10 and thus in the 5.10 branch?
> 
Just find the patch from one of the distros that did already did the 
backporting. There are at least two, but probably more.

'Allan