Monthly status: January

[Dr Paul Dale]

Significant activities throughout January included:

  * Wrote "removing a support customer" work flow
  * Wrote a documentation policy (ongoing)
  * Wrote a versioning policy (ongoing)
  * Wrote policy definitions (ongoing)
  * Added error reporting to the parameter helper functions
  * Added EVP_MD_CTX_dup and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_dup functions
  * Implemented EVP_KDF_CTX_dup for all KDFs (ongoing)
  * Added caching of EVP cipher key and IV lengths which addresses a
    performance regression
  * Investigation of a TSAN issue resulting in fixes for libcrypto and
    libssl
  * Ongoing Coverity support: figuring out reports and fixing them
  * Continued coordination of MIPS security bug resulting in CVE-2021-4160

This is in addition to the usual nightly meetings, issue triage, pull 
request reviews and responding to questions.

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