<i>I don&#x27;t think this kind of decision was ever made public, was it?</i><p>Not that I&#x27;m aware of. I follow the misc, tech, and libressl mailing lists and there seems to be a lot of OpenBSD related stuff <i>missing</i> from there. I think the cabal uses other, more private, more informal, means of communication for a lot of their discussions and decisions.<p><i>selecting old versions of specific files</i><p>But did they really select an old version? Rather, perhaps they just declined to pull the changes that the OpenSSL people made.