OpenSSL 3.5 Feature Branch Merge – Go/No-Go Decisions

[Blog on OpenSSL Library]

We’re introducing a streamlined process for deciding which new features make
it into each OpenSSL Library release. This involves two layers of readiness
checks—technical and business—to help ensure features are both technically
sound and well-aligned with the broader needs of the communities. For OpenSSL
3.5, the OpenSSL Technical Committee (OTC) has advised on technical readiness,
and the Business Advisory Committee has advised on business readiness. The
go/no-go decisions ensure we merge well-vetted features into the main codebase
for OpenSSL 3.



URL: https://openssl-library.org/post/2025-02-12-openssl-3.5-go-nogo/

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Hello.

Blog on OpenSSL Library wrote in
<6ee7d623-35f6-4508-9466-efe2c6768586@localhost>:

For a normal user as intransparent as ever, haha, and that table
is an image, so i could not even copy and paste for searching just
a little bit of background, that tops it a bit.
But thanks.

Anyhow i made it because i did not understand the item
"openssl external quic library interface"
And searching i remembered a statement of the OpenSSL blog[1]

...
We have been offered a shim for interfacing other QUIC libraries
on top of OpenSSL’s libraries based on one particular
implementation’s requirements. It is not a contribution of QUIC
support in itself. Rather, it is a bridge between an external
implementation that is still evolving, and the OpenSSL library.

After much consideration, we have collectively concluded
...

This ultimatively let to the OpenSSL QUIC implementation which
surely / likely / hopefully has a vivid future, as it releases
many programmers from the headache that it brings -- OpenSSL one
has de facto anyway. Thanks for all this, again!!

So, what is actually meant with the "external quic library
interface", the blog does not give any indication, and i cannot
remember having heard anything on this list, or anywhere else?

Thank you in advance,

[1] https://openssl-library.org/post/2020-02-13-quic-and-openssl/

--steffen
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[Tim Hudson]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <ste...@sdaoden.eu> wrote:

So, what is actually meant with the "external quic library
interface", the blog does not give any indication, and i cannot
remember having heard anything on this list, or anywhere else?

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/26683 for the code.

https://docs.openssl.org/master/man3/SSL_set_quic_tls_cbs/ for the documentation.

Tim.