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[chore][VERSIONING.md] Changing protocol support for security is allowed

Open mx-psi opened this issue 1 month ago • 1 comments

Description

We have recently discussed bumping the minimum TLS version to follow security best practices. Since we are about to stabilize configtls (see #10344), I raised the question of whether this would be a breaking change that should be done before 1.0.

I argue that we should be allowed to do this after 1.0 because:

  • The Go 1 version compatibility doc states

Security. A security issue in the specification or implementation may come to light whose resolution requires breaking compatibility. We reserve the right to address such security issues.

While this is not a security issue but a security best practice, the golang/go issue seems to indicate that changes like this would be in the spirit of the Go 1 version compatibility promise.

mx-psi avatar Jun 24 '24 09:06 mx-psi