[EXTERNAL] [PATCH] doc: deprecation of OpenSSL version 1.1.1

[Ji, Kai]

Acked-by: Kai Ji <kai.ji at intel.com>
________________________________
From: Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>
Sent: 17 February 2026 14:40
To: Finn, Emma <emma.finn at intel.com>
Cc: dev at dpdk.org <dev at dpdk.org>; Ji, Kai <kai.ji at intel.com>; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Anoob Joseph <anoobj at marvell.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; Sunil Uttarwar <sunilprakashrao.uttarwar at amd.com>; Andrew Boyer <andrew.boyer at amd.com>; Jack Bond-Preston <jack.bond-preston at foss.arm.com>; Vikas Gupta <vikas.gupta at broadcom.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>; Nagadheeraj Rottela <rnagadheeraj at marvell.com>; Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>; Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou at huawei.com>; Hanxiao Li <li.hanxiao at zte.com.cn>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH] doc: deprecation of OpenSSL version 1.1.1

> OpenSSL 1.1.1 reached end-of-life in September 2023. Future
> releases of DPDK will require minimum of OpenSSL 3.0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emma Finn <emma.finn at intel.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>
Adding more PMD maintainers for acks.

>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ac667e91a6..fca556d07b 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
>  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
>    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
>
> +* cryptodev: Support for OpenSSL versions earlier than 3.0 is deprecated
> +  and will be removed. OpenSSL 1.1.1 reached end-of-life in September 2023.
> +  The minimum supported OpenSSL version will be 3.0,
> +  and version checks for earlier OpenSSL versions will be removed from the PMD.
> +
>  * eal: The ``-c <coremask>`` commandline parameter is deprecated
>    and will be removed in a future release.
>    Use the ``-l <corelist>`` or ``--lcores=<corelist>`` parameters instead
> --
> 2.43.0

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