RHEL tidbits

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/18/13 7:29 AM, "Ian Young" <ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:
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>* RHEL 6.5 will rebase openssl to 1.0.1.  The main reason for them to do
>this is to get TLS 1.2 support, but I think the other implication is that
>we'll see GCM support in the crypto stack that the SP uses in RH 6 after
>all.

The test will be whether it's ABI compatible. It's supposed to be, but I
got hints that 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 wasn't, which is why I didn't use common DLL
names on Windows for those two.

>* RH are saying that they have taken over maintenance of OpenJDK 6 from
>Oracle, presumably so that they can back-port fixes to RHEL 5 and 6
>indefinitely.

Hmm, I guess that in theory means we could consider Java 6 "supported" for
the purposes of the 2.x IdP. At least on Linux.

-- Scott