Update OpenSSL (January 2026)

[hugovk]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

OpenSSL has updates for 3.6.1, 3.5.5, 3.4.4, 3.3.6, 3.0.19:

https://openssl-library.org/post/2026-01-27-release-announcement/

Let's update the CI, release artifacts and so on.

See #139573 for the last round.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-144551: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 3.5.5 #144645
• gh-144551: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 3.0.19 #144793
• gh-144551: Update CI to use latest OpenSSL versions #144794
• gh-144551: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 3.5.5 #144796
• [3.14] gh-144551: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 3.0.19 #144797
• [3.13] gh-144551: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 3.0.19 #144798
• [3.14] gh-144551: Update CI to use latest OpenSSL versions (GH-144794) #144799
• [3.13] gh-144551: Update CI to use latest OpenSSL versions (GH-144794) #144800
• gh-144551: Update various CI jobs to OpenSSL 3.5 #144808
• gh-144551: Update OpenSSL version references in Mac/BuildScript/ #144810