The State of the OpenSSL Community (3.5)

Open source projects depend on a community of volunteers to submit and review features, bug fixes, documentation improvements and so on. OpenSSL has benefited from a core of dedicated contributors and has built up a robust community over the last decade. A lot more people have their eyes on OpenSSL since 2014, the year Heartbleed was discovered.

OpenSSL 3.5 was released earlier this year with a bunch of exciting features. Roughly a third of the commits came from people paid by either the OpenSSL Foundation or OpenSSL Corporation. The rest of the commits were submitted either by individuals or developers working for other companies. Jon Ericson, the OpenSSL communities manager, discussed the state of the community in a new video:

The slides are also available.