Hello,

I've created a wiki page to collect significant changes planned for
GnuTLS 4.0 (or 3.9):
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/wikis/Planning-for-4.0

If you have any further ideas or disagree with the currently planned
items, don't hesitate to speak up :-)

Regards,

Daiki Ueno <[email protected]> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Daiki Ueno <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> On a slightly related note, we might also want to plan a new major
>>> release (3.9 or 4.0) with backward incompatible changes, such as default
>>> cipher selections.
>>
>> What kind of backward incompatible API/ABI change are you thinking of?
>
> I meant more about backward incompatible "behavior" changes, such as:
> https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1761
> https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1772
>
>> I think doing backwards incompatible changes that affect running code
>> out there is often just a bad idea, so IMHO it would be nice to
>> enumerate the API/ABI changes for consideration, and then run reverse
>> builds of Debian/Fedora packages using GnuTLS to see what breaks.
>
> I agree.  Even if we disable some already deprecated functionality, such
> as SRP, we will likely keep the API/ABI (but may turn it no-op).
>
> Regards,

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