Dear colleagues, The side tag build is starting
On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM Dmitry Belyavskiy <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > As we’ve already announced, we are going to land OpenSSL 4 in rawhide. > > We used a dedicated copr repo [1] to check the compatibility of builds and > were able to either rebuild or propose patches to most of the packages. > Also as OpenSSL 4.0 was released more than a month ago, a plenty of > packages have been fixed upstream to restore the compatibility and we hope > that some of these fixes have already landed in rawhide. > > We kindly ask the maintainers of the packages we’ve created the patches > against to merge these patches or move to the latest upstream version in > case when upstream has been adopted to the recent version of OpenSSL. > Otherwise the patches will be merged and built by proven packagers (Yaakov > Selkowitz and Stephen Gallagher) on or soon after Friday, June 12th. > > We are going to establish a side-tag and rebuild OpenSSL 4, OpenSSL 3, and > openssh in it. We are also planning to rebuild the packages that we’ve > successfully rebuilt in the COPR repo. We expect that maintainers of other > packages will rebuild their packages using that side tag. After that is > complete, the side tag will be merged into rawhide. During this period, it > is important that if you have a package that depends on OpenSSL, you do not > build it directly in Rawhide without coordinating with us. This will avoid > conflicts when we merge the side-tag. > > We were waiting for the OpenSSL security releases that happened today to > avoid extra churn. We are going to start the rebuild on Friday, June 12, > and plan to merge it on Wednesday, Jun 17, 2026. > > I hope that this will work for most packages. We are still open to help > with any particular problems on adapting your packages for OpenSSL 4. > > Sent on behalf of: > > Dmitri Belyavsky > Stephen Gallagher > Yaakov Selkowitz > Simo Sorce > > > [1] > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/yselkowitz/openssl-4.0/packages/ > > -- > Dmitry Belyavskiy > -- Dmitry Belyavskiy
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