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Re: [PATCH] add ssl_protocols configuration option

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-10-23T23:55:46Z
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > OpenSSL just announced a week or two ago that they're abandoning support
> > for 0.9.8 by the end of next year[1], which means its replacements have
> > been around for a really long time.
> 
> RHEL5 still has 0.9.8e with backported patches and will be supported
> until 2017-03-31.
> 
> FreeBSD 8.4, 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3 all have 0.9.8y with backported patches.
> 8.4, 9.1 and 9.2 all expire before OpenSSL 0.9.8, but 9.3 will be
> supported until 2016-12-31.
> 
> 0.9.8 and 1.0.1 are not binary compatible, so upgrading is *not* an
> option.  We (as in FreeBSD) will have to make do - either develop our
> own patches or adapt RedHat's.

I think you misread me.  I was saying to desupport 0.9.7, not 0.9.8.

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