Bitcoin Core is the Bitcoin network's reference-implementation software, a direct descendant of the client Satoshi Nakamoto first released; entries cite its GitHub commit history and release notes.
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On January 15, 2016, Bitcoin Core v0.12 replaced OpenSSL with libsecp256k1 — Wuille and Maxwell's custom elliptic-curve library — for consensus-critical ECDSA verification.
On November 20, 2011, Bitcoin v0.5 shipped with the Crypto++ SHA-256 subset removed and replaced by OpenSSL. Wei Dai's library, a direct codebase dependency since v0.1, was gone.