Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed
Date: 2025-05-27 21:51:13
Message-ID: aDYz0T9riE1FP4w-@momjian.us
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On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 09:26:41AM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> For the "Deprecate MD5 password authentication" item, IMHO we should
> emphasize that support for MD5 passwords will be removed in a future major
> release, as we did for the 18beta1 announcement. Here's an attempt:
>
> Deprecate MD5 password authentication (Nathan Bossart)
>
> Support for MD5 passwords will be removed in a future major version
> release. CREATE ROLE and ALTER ROLE now emit deprecation warnings when
> setting MD5 passwords. These warnings can be disabled by setting the
> md5_password_warnings parameter to "off".

Agree, I have replaced the item text with your text.

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