- title: "Optional enforcement of SSH expiration" announcement_milestone: "14.8" announcement_date: "2022-02-22" removal_milestone: "15.0" removal_date: "2022-05-22" breaking_change: true reporter: stkerr body: | Disabling SSH expiration enforcement is unusual from a security perspective and could create unusual situations where an expired key is unintentionally able to be used. Unexpected behavior in a security feature is inherently dangerous and so now we enforce expiration on all SSH keys. issue_url: "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/351963" documentation_url: "https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/admin_area/settings/account_and_limit_settings.html#allow-expired-ssh-keys-to-be-used-deprecated"