[New-bugs-announce] [issue34009] Document Travis CI / Ubuntu 14.04 OpenSSL compatibility issues

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

As noted in https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/9069, Travis CI's Ubuntu 14.04 environment includes an OpenSSL that's too old to meet Python 3.7's security requirements.

According to https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/9069#issuecomment-395471575, setting "dist: xenial" instead (giving Ubuntu 16.04) provides a testing environment with a new enough OpenSSL for 3.7 to work.

I'm thinking it would make the most sense as a subsection under https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.7.html#platform-support-removals

(https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.7.html#ssl does mention this information in a note, but that uses the OpenSSL version numbers directly, which folks aren't necessarily going to know to go to distrowatch to check which Travis environment they need to select: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Ubuntu )

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messages: 320762
nosy: christian.heimes, ncoghlan, ned.deily
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Document Travis CI / Ubuntu 14.04 OpenSSL compatibility issues
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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