Announce: OpenSSH 7.5 released

Darren Tucker
2017-03-27T11:00:36Z

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Martin Hecht <hecht at hlrs.de> wrote:

> [...]
> This causes configure to fail on SLES 11 sp3 LTSS. SUSE backports
> security fixes for openssl 0.9.8 until 2019.
> I have found the corresponding git commit which changes configure.ac,
> and would like to undo it.


You're welcome to do so however if it breaks you get to keep both pieces.


> Apart from the concern that upstream at
> openssl stopped supporting 0.9.8, are there any other reasons behind
> this change (new dependencies on 1.0.1 which are not checked elsewhere)?
>

Given that support was removed late in the development cycle and it was
tested with older versions up until then I would guess 7.5p1 might still
work.

Beyond that, there's a bunch of compatibility shims in
openbsd-compat/openssl-compat.{c,h} and a couple of
ifdef OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER sprinkled in the code which I would expect to
be removed in future.

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