Releasing 3.0.26 and 3.2.0 soon

[Dave Macias]

Thank you very much for the release!

Question:
is the docker "latest" tag going to remain on 3.0.x or will it switch over
to 3.2.x ?

Thank you,
Dave

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 9:04 AM Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2022, at 7:20 AM, Matthew Newton <mcn at freeradius.org> wrote:
> > Unfortunately as Alan said due to OpenSSL 3 we've put more into 3.0.x
> than planned since 3.0.25 when we announced it would be bug fixes/security
> only.
> >
> > We felt it was necessary to ensure 3.0.x would continue to work with
> OpenSSL 3 and TLS 1.3 going forwards, otherwise it would become EOL a lot
> faster than planned.
>
>   OpenSSL3 was *unnecessarily* different from OpenSSL1.  And it was
> difficult to add support for OpenSSL3 without breaking OpenSSL1.
>
>   TLS 1.3 was similar.  And adding OpenSSL3 to that was not fun.
>
>   That being said, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 have been officially deprecated by
> the relevant standards bodies.  Most operating systems are in the process
> of removing them or disabling them.  OpenSSL is doing something similar.
>
>   For the short term, TSL 1.2 is really the only option for most
> deployments.  As OS vendors add support for TLS 1.3, that will become more
> widely used, and preferred.
>
> > All being well we will release 3.2.0 within the next couple of weeks,
> and 3.0.26 shortly after.
>
>   And both are frozen until then, for anything other than doc / bug /
> security fixes.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
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