Update to newer version of OpenSSL (upgrade base OS image to Ubuntu 18.04)

[Tributh]

Hi,
I use the latest docker image.
When I check the included openssl version with:
#docker exec -it mssql openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016

which is an very old and outdated version.

The actual version is:
OpenSSL 1.0.2n [27 Mar 2018]

Is there a plan to update openssl inside the docker container to a more bug fixed version?

Torsten

[twright-msft]

It seems that there is not a newer version of OpenSSL available for the 16.04 base image right now. We are working on adding support for 18.04 right now. Once we are finished with that we will update the base OS image for the mssql-server-linux to ubuntu:18.04 which should get us up to a newer version of OpenSSL.

[Tributh]

The upgrade plan sounds great. Can you estimate how long that will take? Maybe eight weeks?

[asaarnak]

Any news?

[vin-yu]

Still working on it. Testing at the moment.

[alensiljak]

Are the preview versions available anywhere? As noted here, this would be helpful in order to get the MSDTC working.