OpenSSL 3.0 Release Candidate

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2021-06-21 21:30:04

The OpenSSL Management Committee (OMC) and the OpenSSL Technical Committee (OTC) are glad to announce our first beta release of OpenSSL 3.0. We consider this to be a release candidate and as such encourage all OpenSSL users to build and test against this beta release and provide feedback.

A lot of work has been going on over the last few months getting OpenSSL 3.0 ready for its final release. In fact the whole OpenSSL 3.0 development effort has been huge with many different contributions from our user base. Since we started this effort we have seen over 7000 commits to the 3.0 development branch from over 300 different authors. Thanks to everyone who has played a part in getting us to this point.

We are now nearing the finishing line and we are excited about the many new features and changes that OpenSSL 3.0 will bring. Here are some of the highlights:

New Licence. OpenSSL 3.0 will now be released under the standard and widely used Apache License, version 2.0 rather than the custom “dual” (where both apply) OpenSSL and SSLeay licences that was used in 1.1.1 and before.