This new version is mandatory to allow the glibc package bump to version 2.31. Otherwise it's not possible to connect to the remote host, as reported by [1] [2]. Upstream commit [3][4] fixes the issue. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65386 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/708224 [3] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/beee0ef61866cb567b9abc23bd850f922e59e3f0 [4] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/69298ebfc2c066acee5d187eac8ce9f38c796630 Release Note: https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.2 Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr> Reviewed-by: David Pierret <david.pierret@smile.fr> Tested-by: David Pierret <david.pierret@smile.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>