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Acked-by: Kai Ji <kai.ji@intel.com></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 17 February 2026 14:40<br>
<b>To:</b> Finn, Emma <emma.finn@intel.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>; Ji, Kai <kai.ji@intel.com>; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Anoob Joseph <anoobj@marvell.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Sunil Uttarwar <sunilprakashrao.uttarwar@amd.com>; Andrew Boyer <andrew.boyer@amd.com>;
Jack Bond-Preston <jack.bond-preston@foss.arm.com>; Vikas Gupta <vikas.gupta@broadcom.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>; Nagadheeraj Rottela <rnagadheeraj@marvell.com>; Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>; Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou@huawei.com>;
Hanxiao Li <li.hanxiao@zte.com.cn><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH] doc: deprecation of OpenSSL version 1.1.1</font>
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<div class="PlainText">> OpenSSL 1.1.1 reached end-of-life in September 2023. Future<br>
> releases of DPDK will require minimum of OpenSSL 3.0.<br>
> <br>
> Signed-off-by: Emma Finn <emma.finn@intel.com><br>
> ---<br>
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com><br>
Adding more PMD maintainers for acks.<br>
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> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++<br>
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)<br>
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> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst<br>
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst<br>
> index ac667e91a6..fca556d07b 100644<br>
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst<br>
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst<br>
> @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Deprecation Notices<br>
> * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter<br>
> for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.<br>
> <br>
> +* cryptodev: Support for OpenSSL versions earlier than 3.0 is deprecated<br>
> + and will be removed. OpenSSL 1.1.1 reached end-of-life in September 2023.<br>
> + The minimum supported OpenSSL version will be 3.0,<br>
> + and version checks for earlier OpenSSL versions will be removed from the PMD.<br>
> +<br>
> * eal: The ``-c <coremask>`` commandline parameter is deprecated<br>
> and will be removed in a future release.<br>
> Use the ``-l <corelist>`` or ``--lcores=<corelist>`` parameters instead<br>
> --<br>
> 2.43.0<br>
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