Re: PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 release announcement draft

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".

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