Re: PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 release announcement draft

On 5/6/25 11:17 AM, Nathan Bossart wrote:

> IMHO we should emphasize that MD5 password support will be removed in a
> future release and that users should migrate to something else soon.  I'm
> imagining it'll still be at least a couple of years before I muster up the
> courage to actually propose removing MD5 support, but I think it's
> important to broadcast our intent here.

I took most of these changes. I don't think we should add the MD5 "will 
be removed in a future release" in the beta announcement, as that could 
lead to confusion (e.g. it's removed in beta 2!). I'm fine with adding 
that in the GA.

Jonathan