[QGIS-Developer] OSGeo4W Qt and OpenSSL versions

[Luigi Pirelli]

Hi Larry

Usually Jürgen attend issues or feature requests opened in the  OSGeo4W
track.

Luigi Pirelli

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On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 19:08, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Comment mostly for Jürgen (and Windows devs/users)...
>
> I recommend OSGeo4W's Qt packages be updated to 5.12.4 or latest LTR,
> specifically for this OpenSSL v1.1.1 reason:
> https://www.qt.io/blog/2019/06/17/qt-5-12-4-released-support-openssl-1-1-1
>
> I think it is a security concern to rely upon an OpenSSL version that is
> 3+ years old, as is the case with official Qt < 5.12.4 releases. For one
> example, there is no TLS 1.3 support in OpenSSL 1.0.2.
>
> Regards,
>
> Larry Shaffer
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota
>
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