Re: PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 release announcement draft

[Jonathan S. Katz]

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:



Thanks,

Jonathan

`md5` authentication will be fully removed in a future major version release.

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