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authorPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2016-03-19 19:03:37 -0400
committerPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2016-03-19 19:03:37 -0400
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Merge pull request #2840 from alex/error-on-098
Fixed #2836 -- error out on OpenSSL 0.9.8 by default
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-rw-r--r--docs/installation.rst4
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst
index 3456ba97..f00974b4 100644
--- a/docs/faq.rst
+++ b/docs/faq.rst
@@ -40,6 +40,19 @@ If you have no other libraries using OpenSSL in your process, or they do not
appear to be at fault, it's possible that this is a bug in ``cryptography``.
Please file an `issue`_ with instructions on how to reproduce it.
+Importing cryptography causes a ``RuntimeError`` about OpenSSL 0.9.8
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The OpenSSL project has dropped support for the 0.9.8 release series. Since it
+is no longer receiving security patches from upstream, ``cryptography`` is also
+dropping support for it. To fix this issue you should upgrade to a newer
+version of OpenSSL (1.0.1 or later). This may require you to upgrade to a newer
+operating system.
+
+For the 1.4 release, you can set the ``CRYPTOGRAPHY_ALLOW_OPENSSL_098``
+environment variable. Please note that this is *temporary* and will be removed
+in ``cryptography`` 1.5.
+
.. _`NaCl`: https://nacl.cr.yp.to/
.. _`PyNaCl`: https://pynacl.readthedocs.org
.. _`WSGIApplicationGroup`: https://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/develop/configuration-directives/WSGIApplicationGroup.html
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index 8c3c436b..38dc4863 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ OpenSSL releases:
.. warning::
OpenSSL versions 0.9.8 and 1.0.0 are no longer supported by the OpenSSL
- project. Support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 will be removed in the next
- ``cryptography`` release.
+ project. Cryptography 1.4 has dropped support for OpenSSL 0.9.8, see the
+ :doc:`FAQ </faq>` for more details.
On Windows
----------