diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 333ca78037..d4753c8f64 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,10 @@
       <para>February 14th, 2010</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[randy] - Updated to libpng-1.2.42</para>
+          <para>[randy] - Updated to OpenSSL-0.9.8l.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[randy] - Updated to libpng-1.2.42.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
diff --git a/postlfs/security/openssl.xml b/postlfs/security/openssl.xml
index a4647a1fed..19cbc1cd9f 100644
--- a/postlfs/security/openssl.xml
+++ b/postlfs/security/openssl.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
   <!ENTITY openssl-download-http "http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-&openssl-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY openssl-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-&openssl-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY openssl-md5sum        "e555c6d58d276aec7fdc53363e338ab3">
-  <!ENTITY openssl-size          "3.7 MB">
+  <!ENTITY openssl-md5sum        "05a0ece1372392a2cf310ebb96333025">
+  <!ENTITY openssl-size          "4.1 MB">
   <!ENTITY ca-bundle-download    "http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/BLFS-ca-bundle-&ca-bundle-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY ca-bundle-size        "192 KB">
   <!ENTITY ca-bundle-md5sum      "a5e85c3df9ef9a192eb5e5cdf94ebb72">
@@ -81,13 +81,10 @@
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">OpenSSL Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
-    <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="bc"/> (if you run the test suite
-    during the build)</para>
-
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional"><xref linkend="mitkrb"/> or
-    <xref linkend="heimdal"/></para>
+    <xref linkend="heimdal"/>, and <xref linkend="bc"/> (required to run the
+    test suite during the build)</para>
 
     <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
     <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/OpenSSL'/></para>