From: Job Snijders <job@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: LibreSSL API/ABI stability?
To: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Cc: Alex Holst <a@mongers.org>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:14:11 +0000

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 11:10:19PM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote:
> I hate libressl's versioning scheme, but it is what it is (it has more
> numbers than necessary and it is super confusing). Basically 3.x.y is
> unstable until y is declared stable, and from that point on 3.x.z is
> stable for all z >= y. And then there is the additional issue that the
> version in OpenBSD might be different from 3.x.y as well for release
> cycle reasons.


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