

Information about how to configure and use the FIPS provider in your applications is available on the FIPS module man page. Other OpenSSL Releases MAY use the validated FIPS provider, but MUST NOT build and use their own FIPS provider. Please follow the Security Policy instructions to download, build and install a validated OpenSSL FIPS provider. Refer to the Certificate and Security Policy The following OpenSSL version(s) are FIPS validated. Extended support for 1.0.2 to gain access to security fixes for that version is available. Users of these older versions are encouraged to upgrade to 3.0 as soon as possible. All older versions (including 1.1.0, 1.0.2, 1.0.0 and 0.9.8) are now out of support and should not be used.

The previous LTS version (the 1.1.1 series) is also available and is supported until 11th September 2023. This is also a Long Term Support (LTS) version. Note: The latest stable version is the 3.0 series supported until 7th September 2026. A list of mirror sites can be found here. (For an explanation of the numbering, see our release strategy.) All releases can be found at /source/old. The table below lists the latest releases for every branch. Please familiarize yourself with the license.

Bugs and pull patches (issues and pull requests) should be filed on the GitHub repo. The master sources are maintained in our git repository, which is accessible over the network and cloned on GitHub, at.
