Nevertheless even openssl 3.0 is EOL (since yesterday). Which version is maintained and supported by RedHat (8)?
> Am 08.09.2026 um 17:04 schrieb Evan Rempel via users > <[email protected]>: > > Not really. We have a policy that we don't source RPMs built by others. > Either from the vendor, or from ourselves. > > -- > Evan > ________________________________ > From: Noelette Stout <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: September 8, 2026 7:54 AM > To: Tomcat Users List <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [ANN] Apache Tomcat Native 1.3.9 released > > [You don't often get email from [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. > Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] > > Are you able to use the RHEL8 openssl3 provided in the EPEL repo? > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 8:44 AM Evan Rempel via users < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Wow. The minimum version of OpenSSL was bumped to 3.0 making Apache Tomcat >> Native 1.3.9 no longer compile on RHEL 8. >> >> This means that there is no latest Apache Tomcat Native that compiles >> under RHEL8, which is not EOL until May 31, 2029. >> >> I was hoping that RHEL8 and Apache Tomcat Native 1.3 would continue to be >> a supported combination until Apache Tomcat Native 1.3 went EOL in Mar >> 2027. We were on track to move all of our Tomcat installations to RHEL9 by >> Mar 2027. 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