Deprecate community.crypto 1.x.y

[felixfontein]

SUMMARY

We released the last major release community.crypto 2.0.0 on 2021-11-01, which is almost three years ago. Since then we kept releasing 1.x.y bugfix releases.

I think it's time to stop releasing 1.x.y and declare 1.x.y End of Life.

The main breaking change of community.crypto 2.0.0, and the main reason for users to keep using 1.x.y, were:

1. Removal of the PyOpenSSL backends for almost all modules (openssl_pkcs12 being the only exception).
2. Removal of the assertonly provider in the x509_certificate provider.

Every other breaking change should be treatable with a bit of work, but these two probably caused the most pain.

I'd like to spread this issue for some time (at least a month) so that if everyone who still needs 1.x.y releases can comment here. If nobody needs them, we can stop spending any thoughts on them. (My guess is that nobody really needs them anymore, but since we don't have telemetry, 🤷)

Any opinions?

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

stable-1 branch

[felixfontein]

If nobody objects in the next few days, I'll declare stable-1 as End of Life.

[felixfontein]

community.crypto 1.x.y is now End of Life. There will be no further 1.x.y releases, and CI for stable-1 has been disabled.