Hi Christian, Thank you for submitting PEP 644 (Require OpenSSL 1.1.1). After evaluating the situation and discussing the PEP, the Steering Council is happy with the PEP, and hereby accepts it. The SC is of the opinion that this change will make it considerable easier to maintain the extension modules that depend on OpenSSL while allowing us to leverage the new APIs and improvements in the future. As indicated in the PEP, OpenSSL 1.1.1 is the default variant and version of OpenSSL on almost all supported platforms and distributions almost all known Major CI providers provide images with OpenSSL 1.1.1, so we believe this has the right balance to improve the situation without causing major impact or breakage. Nevertheless, the Steering Council would like to see this change reflected properly in the documentation, What's New (linking against the new instructions here: https://docs.python.org/3.10/using/unix.html#custom-openssl) and release manager notices so this is properly communicated to our users. The Steering Council also thanks Christian for his patience explaining different aspects of the PEP, including in the PEP some extra requested information and for considering the concerts raised. Congratulations, Christian! With thanks from the whole Python Steering Council, Pablo Galindo Salgado