Engine support timetable

[Tomas Mraz]

There is no date set for that yet. Not even roughly. The earliest
release where the engine API can be removed is 4.0 but there was no
decision on when that version is going to be released and it was not
even decided which of the deprecated APIs are going to be removed in
4.0.

The functions deprecated in 3.0 will remain supported in 3.0 until
2026-09-07. If there is any further 3.x version designated as LTS, it
will give the lifetime of these APIs at least further five years. But
it wasn't decided yet whether there will be another 3.x version
designated as LTS.

Regards,

Tomas Mraz, OpenSSL

On Fri, 2023-11-17 at 08:25 +0000, Martin Bonner via openssl-users
wrote:
> At the moment, all the "engine" functions are declared deprecated.
> 
> Has the development team reached a consensus on when they will be
> removed?
> (I am more interested in a date than a version...)
> 
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