January requests - summary
Dear colleagues,
As you remember, there was a poll in January about the community priorities.
Here is the summary of the requests state as of now.
The questions who were of interest at all in the poll
Feature/Task |
Current state |
Regression testing (e.g. Python, Node, Ruby) |
Not done |
Patch upstreaming |
Not sure how many patches coming from distros were landed in 4.0, some definitely were |
Configurability (crypto-policies, x509 requirements) |
|
EVP_sha256() should use fetch internally (for speed) |
Not done |
Session resumption performance |
|
Publicity work: talking the talk |
Needs comments from upstream |
EVP prefetch & caching (store freeze) |
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/feature/method-store-freeze |
Always green CI |
Looks like it is done to a reasonable extent. |
OpenSSL language bindings / Rust crate |
A subject to discussion at F2F meeting |
Statically linked FIPS (provider) |
Looks like no interest |
Rust crypto under OpenSSL umbrella |
A subject to discussion at F2F meeting |
Also later there was a poll for reintroduction of FIPS_mode macro with clear outcome, also discussed as a BAC poll and got 2 of 5 voices for + one delayed voice
I would like to encourage the OpenSSL Corporation to provide feedback in case I've missing anything.
Also I want to encourage the distro community to provide the topics to the upcoming May TAC/BAC F2F
Dmitry Belyavsky ·Mon 4 May 2026 7:37PM
@Tomas Vavra if you have any comments/updates, please let me know