Re: PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 release announcement draft
Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>,
PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-05-07T21:39:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 5/7/25 4:54 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 11:24:44PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote: >> 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 > > You could say "will be removed in a future major release". Went with: `md5` authentication will be fully removed in a future major version release. Thanks, Jonathan