openssl/openssl openssl-4.1.0

No. 13 of 245 · GitHub · openssl-machine · published 23 Oct 2026, 12:23 UTC · 2 min read

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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked

OpenSSL 4.1.0 adds DTLS 1.3 (RFC 9147), RFC 8701 GREASE, DTLS in the SSL listener API, IKEv2 KDF and initial Elbrus2000 support. It also adds AVX-512 and VAES speedups for ML-DSA, SHAKE and AES-CBC decryption on x86_64, plus ML-DSA and ML-KEM optimizations on ppc64le. Itanium and Windows CE targets and the no-ecdsa/no-ecdh options are removed. Known issues include DTLS 1.3 KeyUpdate dropping pending retransmissions and DTLS listener error-reporting bugs, so teams should test before adopting DTLS 1.3.

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Score

0.73total under rubric v2.0

Significance0.70
Reader interest0.70
Audience breadth0.66
Practical relevance0.78
Substantiated0.81
Technical depth0.71
New information0.95
Counts against: Promotional0.05
Counts against: Overclaim0.08

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.74	0.55	0.82	0.70	0.27	+0.25	+0.176
Reader interest	0.53	0.70	0.88	0.70	0.35	+0.20	+0.141
Audience breadth	0.53	0.67	0.78	0.66	0.25	+0.10	+0.066
Practical relevance	0.84	0.70	0.80	0.78	0.14	+0.15	+0.117
Substantiated	0.68	0.80	0.95	0.81	0.27	+0.10	+0.081
Technical depth	0.72	0.70	0.70	0.71	0.03	+0.10	+0.071
New information	0.94	0.90	1.00	0.95	0.10	+0.10	+0.095
Promotional	0.06	0.05	0.03	0.05	0.03	−0.15	−0.007
Overclaim	0.10	0.10	0.04	0.08	0.06	−0.15	−0.012
Sum of contributions							+0.727
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.727

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

Also covered by

OpenSSL 4.1 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations · Phoronix

Elsewhere

Elsewhere: HN 184 pts, front page

Discussion on Hacker News

Recorded for context only, checked 24 Oct 2026, 08:53 UTC. It played no part in the ranking.

Panel for this edition

Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition and listed in its JSON. This one was scored under rubric v2.0; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.2.