[Interest] Qt 5.9 and OpenSSL 1.1?

[Tuukka Turunen]

Hi,

Let's create (if not yet created) and link the QTBUG JIRA tasks for Qt 5.9 and Qt 5.12 to the mailing list. Continue discussion there. Easier than mailing list for this type of a task.

In principle switch to new version should be well justified. We just need to check the practicalities.

We already have OpenSSL in use by the installer, but it is not currently a shipped 3rd party module of Qt. As long as it is not enabled by default for Qt apps, we could add it like we typically do for 3rd party items. 

Yours,

	Tuukka

On 22/03/2019, 10.20, "Interest on behalf of Jani Heikkinen" <interest-bounces at qt-project.org on behalf of jani.heikkinen at qt.io> wrote:

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Interest <interest-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Thiago
    > Macieira
    > Sent: perjantai 22. maaliskuuta 2019 4.12
    > To: interest at qt-project.org
    > Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt 5.9 and OpenSSL 1.1?
    > 
    > On Wednesday, 20 March 2019 23:45:38 PDT Roland Winklmeier wrote:
    > > Wouldn’t it be good then if official binaries from newer releases
    > > build against OpenSSL 1.1?
    > 
    > Yes and no. For future compatibility, we should do that and should have done
    > that for 5.12 already. But doing so means the binaries so produced won't run
    > on older, still supported Linux distributions.
    > 
    > > According to
    > > https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.12_Tools_and_Versions all official binaries
    > > are still built against 1.0.2. If that is end of live this year, is
    > > there a plan to change this?
    > 
    > Not yet. Thanks for bringing it up, we'll have to make a decision. I'll bring this
    > up with the release team to figure out if there's a limitation in the build
    > servers (if it's the same environment that builds 5.9, for example).
    > Then we'll make a recommendation.
    
    We will check this. I know there is already work ongoing to switch that in dev (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/244362/)
    
    br,
    Jani
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