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Reasons for removing GnuTLS support:
Maintenance overhead. Maintaining support for two SSL/TLS libraries (OpenSSL and GnuTLS) significantly increases our maintenance burden. Currently, we exclusively use OpenSSL in all production builds.
Boost.Asio incompatibility. The Boost.Asio library, which can be used for cross-platform socket and TLS handling, does not support GnuTLS. Our planned migration of network logic to Boost.Asio makes GnuTLS support redundant.
Updated the POSIX Documentation:
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Testing