"OpenSSL 3.0 is a major release and not fully backwards compatible with the previous release," explained Matt Caswell of the OpenSSL Management Committee.
FIPS-validated cryptographic algorithms are important to have for users seeking US government work, and its omission from version 1.1.1 of OpenSSL (having been present in 1.0.2) has caused the odd headache.
See 3 years, 17 alphas, 2 betas, and over 7,500 commits later, OpenSSL version 3 is here
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What have we learned during that time? Quite a bit, it appears