• A decade of Rustls

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Thu Sep 10 06:40:09 2026

    Joe Birr-Pixton has written a blog post
    reflecting on a decade of the Rustls TLS-library project and looking ahead to the upcoming�0.24 release and an eventual�1.0 release.

    Rustls began with a
    first commit on May�2,�2016. Progress was quick: a month later, on June�5,
    it could interoperate with most sites on the web. The first release,�0.1.0, followed on August�27,�2016 - less than four months after the first commit.

    [...] From the�0.1.0 release, the project moved through a long series of releases over the following eight years, building out functionality, hardening and refining the API. That sequence of release lines culminated in�0.23, released on February�29,�2024.

    The�0.23 release line has been a stable one: in the time since, it has
    seen�43 non-breaking releases. That stability didn't come with
    stagnation. The�0.23 line delivered a wide range of important features, including a FIPS-certified cryptography option, certificate compression, Encrypted ClientHello, post-quantum cryptography, and performance
    improvements.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1093391/
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