The freeze date for OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha is rapidly approaching.

Alpha freeze approaching

The freeze date for OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha is rapidly approaching. Planned features are viewable on our 3.4 Planning page. If you have a feature on the planning page, please ensure that your associated PRs are posted, reviewed, and merged prior to the freeze date (Friday, Aug 30, 2024), or it will be postponed until the next release.

Current highlights of the feature list for 3.4 include:

• Creation of a Windows installer (https://github.com/openssl/installer)
• Performance metric reviews
• FIPS indicator implementation
• Added support for integrity-only cipher suites for TLS v1.3
• Attribute Certificate support

Please see the planning page for full details.

Based on our OpenSSL 3.4 Planning, the OpenSSL tree will freeze for our alpha release on Friday, Aug 30. Subsequently, the tree will be unfrozen, and the release will be published on Thursday, 5th Sept. 2024