openssl 3 usage

[DEC670airp414user]

is there anytime frame on when this will be utilized.      1.t    is end of lifeish September

just curious

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Whenever FreeBSD does the switch. In the meantime it's the responsibility of the FreeBSD project to provide some supported OpenSSL implementation. The version is irrelevant, IMHO.

As long as FreeBSD 13.2 is supported, its OpenSSL is supported, regardless of what the upstream project does. If necessary fixes will be backported.

[DEC670airp414user]

doesn't seem like it would be a small task.

didn't know if there was a scheduled time frame.   appreciate the reply

[Patrick M. Hausen]

The current state in the FreeBSD ecosystem can be found in this mailing list thread dating late April:
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2023-April/000353.html

Summary: don't hold your breath for OPNsense just right now. It will happen when it will happen. I doubt @franco and friends will do the change before FreeBSD does. Resources and things ...