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Re: PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 release announcement draft

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> — 2025-05-07T21:39:40Z

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