From 1c87e2facf3e4b26e764cca3a8dc6c398e2478a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Markus=20M=C3=A4kel=C3=A4?= Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 22:46:41 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add changes to admin user hashing to release notes --- .../Release-Notes/MaxScale-2.4.0-Release-Notes.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/Release-Notes/MaxScale-2.4.0-Release-Notes.md b/Documentation/Release-Notes/MaxScale-2.4.0-Release-Notes.md index 59f86d459..140b78486 100644 --- a/Documentation/Release-Notes/MaxScale-2.4.0-Release-Notes.md +++ b/Documentation/Release-Notes/MaxScale-2.4.0-Release-Notes.md @@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ Readwritesplit now allows open transactions to finish if the master is put into maintenance mode. To forcefully close all connections to a server use the `maxctrl set server maintenance --force` command. +### Stronger hashing algorithm for admin user passwords + +The administrative user passwords are now stored as SHA2-512 hashes which is an +improvement over the older MD5 hashing algorithm. New users will use the +stronger algorithm but old users will continue using the weaker one. To upgrade +administrative users, recreate the user. + ## Dropped Features ## New Features