This is another in the series of posts about decisions we made at our face-to-face meeting a couple of weeks ago.

We updated the project roadmap.

I think the most important news here, is that our next release will include TLS 1.3. Our current plan is that this will be 1.1.1, which means that it is API-compatible with the current 1.1.0 release. This is really only possible because of the work we did on making most of the structure internals opaque. Also, since we are doing all of our work in public on our GitHub repository, we hope that the entire community will be able to “follow along at home” and help us improve the code. There will be more, much more, to say about this later.

We have also set ourselves major goals of increasing our code coverage and protocol-level testing. In addition, all new API’s must be documented, and the entire set of SSL API’s will also be documented. The script util/find-undoc-api.pl lists them. If you’re inclined to help write some documentation, please feel free!

There are a variety of other crypto-nerd things we are looking at, so please see the roadmap for details.

The second point I want to mention in this post is that we have sketched out a platform policy. This is, admittedly, an overdue item from our first meeting two years ago. The first step will be to review all targets in the configuration scripts, and classify them according to the categories mentioned in the platform policy by our next release.

Which, in case I failed to mention it, will include TLS 1.3 :)