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<sect1 id="release-8-4">
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Remove support for the (insecure) <literal>crypt</> authentication method
- (Magnus)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This effectively obsoletes pre-<productname>PostgreSQL</> 7.2 client
- libraries, as there is no longer any non-plaintext password method that
- they can use.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>
Remove <varname>krb_realm</> and <varname>krb_server_hostname</>;
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Remove support for the (insecure) <literal>crypt</> authentication method
+ (Magnus)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This effectively obsoletes pre-<productname>PostgreSQL</> 7.2 client
+ libraries, as there is no longer any non-plaintext password method that
+ they can use.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Support regular expressions in <filename>pg_ident.conf</>
Change all authentication options to use <literal>name=value</>
syntax (Magnus)
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ This makes incompatible changes to the <literal>ldap</>,
+ <literal>pam</> and <literal>ident</> authentication methods. All
+ <filename>pg_hba.conf</> entries with these methods need to be
+ rewritten using the new format.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>