# Latest versions **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [July 2, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/latest-versions/14895 "2024-07-02T12:48:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@shack](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/shack)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/latest-versions/14895/1 "2024-07-02T12:48:15Z")
Does anyone know what the latest versions of Python, OpenSSH, and OpenSSL compatible with RL 8 are? Specifically looking to see if Python 3.11.5, OpenSSH 9.6p1, and OpenSSL 3.0.14 will work with 8. ---
**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/latest-versions/14895/2 "2024-07-02T12:54:04Z")
Attempting to try to do any of that you will most likely break the system, since Rocky 9 relies on the versions of python it ships with as the default. A lot of packages relying on the older version of OpenSSL would require rebuilding possibly even the entire distro. I’d forget about even trying it. Upgrade your system to Rocky 9 that has OpenSSL 3, later python, etc. ---
**Author:** ![shack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@shack](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/shack)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/latest-versions/14895/3 "2024-07-02T13:24:41Z")
I was holding out hope that they might get backported but so much for that. ---
**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/latest-versions/14895/4 "2024-07-02T13:45:04Z")
Some packages do get backported, others that require way too much work do not. Glibc is a great example for that in that it will never change for the entire life of the distro. OpenSSL and Python system defaults also. ---
**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/latest-versions/14895/5 "2024-07-02T13:45:20Z")
Rocky has what RHEL has. What RHEL has is packages based on something chosen by Red Hat, and then possibly modified by backports (by RH). For some subsystems there are _application streams_ – alternative versions. See [Red Hat Enterprise Linux Application Streams Life Cycle - Red Hat Customer Portal](https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhel-app-streams-life-cycle) The application streams do not replace core elements of the distro. The RHEL 8 and Rocky 8 do have “platform Python” that many tools do depend on. That is version 3.6 One can now install Python 3.12 _stream_ for user applications, but that will not replace the 3.6 installation. ---
**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/latest-versions/14895/6 "2024-07-02T13:54:41Z")
> [@shack](#): > > OpenSSL 3 (Historical) note on that. RHEL 9 (and hence Rocky 9) was the first Red Hat’s distro with OpenSSL 3. A lot of RHEL content is cherry-picked from Fedora, but the timing with OpenSSL 3 was such that all packages depending on OpenSSL were rather converted to use 3 in development branch for RHEL 9 than wait for them show up (an be tested) in Fedora first. Due to the nature of OpenSSL _one does not simply mess with it_. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/latest-versions/14895/7 "2024-08-31T13:54:53Z")
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