Re: Time to drop RADIUS support?

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 11:22:45PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> The real recommendation of the paper was "don't use RADIUS/UDP at
> all", and I don't want to expend energy writing a RADIUS/TLS client
> for a hypothetical user, so I think we should just delete it all, and
> stick a deprecation notice in the release branch documentation, as
> attached.

So you are saying we add a deprecation notice in the back branches and
drop it in V19? If this is a severe security issue then maybe we can
just remove it everywhere (ugh), or if not, I think it probably warrants
at least one release cycle of deprecation. Do we have a formal
deprecation timeline policy nowadays?


Michael