Seriously, considering that 0.9.8 was released in 2005. During the last 7 years are you telling me openssl is the only "unixy" library to have a new backwards incompatible version come out? And by the way, they are still providing updates to 0.9.8. It's still the default version in debian stable.
So to recap: 0.9.8 is by no means unsupported. The saints over at the openssl group are continuing to provide updates to this 7 year old library so that people like Apple can continue providing seamless security updates to users who have linked against 0.9.8.
Seriously, considering that 0.9.8 was released in 2005. During the last 7 years are you telling me openssl is the only "unixy" library to have a new backwards incompatible version come out? And by the way, they are still providing updates to 0.9.8. It's still the default version in debian stable.
So to recap: 0.9.8 is by no means unsupported. The saints over at the openssl group are continuing to provide updates to this 7 year old library so that people like Apple can continue providing seamless security updates to users who have linked against 0.9.8.