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HydraExpress 2025.2.1 Updated to OpenSSL 3.0.21

HydraExpress 2025.2.1 has updated the bundled version of OpenSSL from OpenSSL 3.0 to OpenSSL 3.0.2.1.

OpenSSL 3.0.2.1 is a security patch release that fixes several known CVEs found within OpenSSL 3.0.

The HydraExpress team recommends that customers on HydraExpress 2025.2.1 update to the latest version immediately.

If your HydraExpress deployment uses SourcePro, please note that HydraExpress 2025.2.1 is certified with SourcePro 2025.2. SourcePro customers should ensure they are running SourcePro 2025.2 before updating HydraExpress.

2025.2.1 Release Notes 

New in HydraExpress 2025.2

New Features

• Added support for Solaris 11 SPARC and x86. (HYEXPRESS-4847)
• Added support for Windows 11. (HYEXPRESS-4557)
• Added support for Visual Studio 2022. (HYEXPRESS-4556)
• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. (HYEXPRESS-4792)
• Added support for Visual Studio 2026. (HYEXPRESS-4910)
• Switched to system ICU on all supported platforms. The bundled ICU library has been removed. (HYEXPRESS-4909)
• Updated concurrency patterns in HydraExpress, reducing the use of explicit mutexes, busy-waits, and other critical sections. (HYEXPRESS-4887)
• Improved exception handling on Solaris by removing the limitation that prevented function names from being returned by rwsf::Exception::getFunctionName(). (HYEXPRESS-4906)
• Added support for the AJP13 CPing/CPong keep-alive protocol, allowing mod_jk workers configured with ping_mode to communicate correctly with the HydraExpress AJP13 connector. (HYEXPRESS-4730)
• Removed Apache Tomcat Connector (mod_jk) from distribution. (HYEXPRESS-4850)
• Dropped support for Windows 10. (HYEXPRESS-4925)
• Dropped support for Visual Studio 2019. (HYEXPRESS-4921)
• Upgraded to OpenSSL 3.0.20. (HYEXPRESS-4920, HYEXPRESS-4980)

Installer

• Both the installer and the uninstaller log files were restored to the system temporary directory. (HYEXPRESS-4559)

New in HydraExpress 2020

New Features

• Usability improvements to both the Web Services and XML Binding components.
• Certified compatibility with the of SourcePro 2020.1.

Platform and Third-Party Support Updates

• RHEL 8 support.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1 support.
• IBM XL C++ 16 support.

New in HydraExpress 2019

New Features

• Usability improvements to both the Web Services and XML Binding components.
• Various bug fixes subsequent to the 4.9 release.

Platform and Third-Party Support Updates

• Visual Studio 2017 support.
• Visual Studio 2019 support.
• SLES 15 support.
• Java 8 support.
• GCC 7 support.