Bsd Now

This week on BSDNow, we’ve got all sorts of post-holiday goodies to share. New OpenSSL APIs, Dtrace, OpenBSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenSSL 1.1 API migration path, or the lack thereof (https://www.mail-archive.com/tech@openbsd.org/msg36437.html) As many of you will already be aware, the OpenSSL 1.1.0 release intentionally introduced significant API changes from the previous release. In summary, a large number of data structures that were previously publically visible have been made opaque, with accessor functions being added in order to get and set some of the fields within these now opaque structs. It is worth noting that the use of opaque data structures is generally beneficial for libraries, since changes can be made to these data structures without breaking the ABI. As such, the overall direction of these changes is largely reasonable. However, while API change is generally necessary for progression, in this case it would appear that there is NO transition plan and a complete disreg