[Python-Dev] Supported versions of OpenSSL

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:40:11 +0200
Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> 
> Here is the deal for 2.7 to 3.5:
> 
> 1) All versions older than 0.9.8 are completely out-of-scope and no
> longer supported.
> 
> 2) 0.9.8 is semi-support. Python will still compile and work with 0.9.8.
> However we do NOT promise that is secure to run 0.9.8. We also require a
> recent version. Patch level 0.9.8zc from October 2014 is reasonable
> because it comes with SCSV fallback (CVE-2014-3566).
> 
> 3) 1.0.0 is irrelevant. Users are either stuck on 0.9.8 or are able to
> upgrade to 1.0.1+. Let's not support it.
> 
> 4) 1.0.1 is discouraged but still supported until its EOL.
> 
> 5) 1.0.2 is the recommend version.
> 
> 6) 1.1 support will be added by #26470 soon.
> 
> 7) LibreSSL 2.3 is supported but with a slightly limited feature set.

Can you expand briefly how "limited" the feature set is?  Does it only
disable some arcane features, so that e.g. asyncio + TLS supports works
fine?

Other than that, it all sounds good to me.

Regards

Antoine.