Heartbleed made people take notice that, despite the library living seemingly in everything everywhere, it was barely funded and sadly under-resourced. In the year since, the project has been funded enough to hire full-time engineers and a crucial refactoring of the codebase has the project in the right direction. The Core Infrastructure Initiative was created, uniting The Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Dell, Google and other large technology companies in funding various open source projects.
Source: https://threatpost.com/openssl-past-present-and-future/112485/