Please note that you are following up to a bug that is closed in Launchpad.
> Will Ubuntu 17.10 be shipping with openssl 1.1?
No, since this is an API-incompatible transition, we are still dependent on upstream projects gaining compatibility for 1.1 before we can switch the OS to it. We are currently targeting this for the 18.04 release.
Please note that you are following up to a bug that is closed in Launchpad.
> Will Ubuntu 17.10 be shipping with openssl 1.1?
No, since this is an API-incompatible transition, we are still dependent on upstream projects gaining compatibility for 1.1 before we can switch the OS to it. We are currently targeting this for the 18.04 release.