RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze

(rfc-editor.org)

17 points | by Jimmc414 1 hour ago

4 comments

  • mcpherrinm 1 hour ago
    This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, as TLS 1.3 has been out for many years and is widely adopted.

    I haven’t paid too much attention to the TLS WG lately (for obvious reasons if you look at their mailing list), but I assume this is mostly a “if you want Post-Quantum cryptography, you need 1.3”.

  • BobbyTables2 22 minutes ago
    I don’t get it. Were there revisions or optional features of v1.2?

    I thought the 1.2 spec was the frozen spec.

  • kijin 33 minutes ago
    Makes sense. Nobody wants to deal with "this user-agent claims to support TLS 1.2, except this extension that was added in 2026" anymore.

    If you're going to add or remove features, follow semver and bump that number.

  • richard_gg 1 hour ago
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