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  • v1.10.1 Changes

    December 03, 2020

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed

    • ๐Ÿ—„ Fixed a bug in certbot.util.add_deprecated_argument that caused the
      ๐Ÿ—„ deprecated --manual-public-ip-logging-ok flag to crash Certbot in some
      scenarios.
      More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.
  • v1.10.0 Changes

    December 01, 2020

    โž• Added

    • โž• Added timeout to DNS query function calls for dns-rfc2136 plugin.
    • Confirmation when deleting certificates
    • 0๏ธโƒฃ CLI flag --key-type has been added to specify 'rsa' or 'ecdsa' (default 'rsa').
    • CLI flag --elliptic-curve has been added which takes an NIST/SECG elliptic curve. Any of
      secp256r1, secp284r1 and secp521r1 are accepted values.
    • The command certbot certficates lists the which type of the private key that was used
      for the private key.
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for Python 3.9 was added to Certbot and all of its components.

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • ๐Ÿ—„ certbot-auto was deprecated on Debian based systems.
    • ๐ŸŒฒ CLI flag --manual-public-ip-logging-ok is now a no-op, generates a
      ๐Ÿš€ deprecation warning, and will be removed in a future release.

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a Unicode-related crash in the nginx plugin when running under Python 2.
      More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.
  • v1.9.0 Changes

    October 07, 2020

    โž• Added

    • ๐Ÿ“ฆ --preconfigured-renewal flag, for packager use only.
      ๐Ÿ‘€ See the packaging guide.

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • ๐Ÿ—„ certbot-auto was deprecated on all systems except for those based on Debian or RHEL.
    • โšก๏ธ Update the packaging instructions to promote usage of python -m pytest to test Certbot
      โœ… instead of the deprecated python setup.py test setuptools approach.
    • โฌ‡๏ธ Reduced CLI logging when reloading nginx, if it is not running.
    • โฌ‡๏ธ Reduced CLI logging when handling some kinds of errors.

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed server_name case-sensitivity in the nginx plugin.
    • The minimum version of the acme library required by Certbot was corrected.
      ๐Ÿš€ In the previous release, Certbot said it required acme>=1.6.0 when it
      ๐Ÿ‘ actually required acme>=1.8.0 to properly support removing contact
      information from an ACME account.
    • โฌ†๏ธ Upgraded the version of httplib2 used in our snaps and Docker images to add
      ๐Ÿ‘Œ support for proxy environment variables and fix the plugin for Google Cloud
      DNS.

    More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.

  • v1.8.0 Changes

    September 08, 2020

    โž• Added

    • โž• Added the ability to remove email and phone contact information from an account
      โšก๏ธ using update_account --register-unsafely-without-email

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for Python 3.5 has been removed.

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed

    • ๐Ÿ”Œ The problem causing the Apache plugin in the Certbot snap on ARM systems to
      ๐Ÿ›  fail to load the Augeas library it depends on has been fixed.
    • The acme library can now tell the ACME server to clear contact information by passing an empty
      tuple to the contact field of a Registration message.
    • Fixed the ***stack smashing detected*** error in the Certbot snap on some systems.
      More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.
  • v1.7.0 Changes

    August 04, 2020

    โž• Added

    • Third-party plugins can be used without prefix (plugin_name instead of dist_name:plugin_name):
      ๐Ÿ”Œ this concerns the plugin name, CLI flags, and keys in credential files.
      ๐Ÿš€ The prefixed form is still supported but is deprecated, and will be removed in a future release.
    • โž• Added --nginx-sleep-seconds (default 1) for environments where nginx takes a long time to reload.

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • ๐Ÿ”Œ The Linode DNS plugin now waits 120 seconds for DNS propagation, instead of 1200,
      due to https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/linode-turns-17/
    • ๐Ÿ—„ We deprecated support for Python 3.5 in Certbot and its ACME library.
      ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for Python 3.5 will be removed in the next major release of Certbot.
      More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.
  • v1.6.0 Changes

    July 07, 2020

    โž• Added

    • Certbot snaps are now available for the arm64 and armhf architectures.
    • โž• Add minimal code to run Nginx plugin on NetBSD.
    • ๐Ÿ”Œ Make Certbot snap find externally snapped plugins
    • Function certbot.compat.filesystem.umask is a drop-in replacement for os.umask
      ๐Ÿ implementing umask for both UNIX and Windows systems.
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for alternative certificate chains in the acme module.
    • โž• Added --preferred-chain <issuer CN>. If a CA offers multiple certificate chains,
      it may be used to indicate to Certbot which chain should be preferred.
      • e.g. --preferred-chain "DST Root CA X3"

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • ๐Ÿ‘ Allow session tickets to be disabled in Apache when mod_ssl is statically linked.
    • โš  Generalize UI warning message on renewal rate limits
    • ๐Ÿ Certbot behaves similarly on Windows to on UNIX systems regarding umask, and
      0๏ธโƒฃ the umask 022 is applied by default: all files/directories are not writable by anyone
      other than the user running Certbot and the system/admin users.
    • Read acmev1 Let's Encrypt server URL from renewal config as acmev2 URL to prepare
      ๐Ÿ—„ for impending acmev1 deprecation.

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed

    • Cloudflare API Tokens may now be restricted to individual zones.
    • Don't use StrictVersion, but LooseVersion to check version requirements with setuptools,
      to fix some packaging issues with libraries respecting PEP404 for version string,
      with doesn't match StrictVersion requirements.
    • Certbot output doesn't refer to SSL Labs due to confusing scoring behavior.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix paths when calling to programs outside of the Certbot Snap, fixing the apache and nginx
      ๐Ÿ”Œ plugins on, e.g., CentOS 7.
      More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.
  • v1.5.0 Changes

    June 02, 2020

    โž• Added

    • ๐Ÿ”Œ Require explicit confirmation of snap plugin permissions before connecting.

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved error message in apache installer when mod_ssl is not available.

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed

    • โž• Add support for OCSP responses which use a public key hash ResponderID, fixing
      interoperability with Sectigo CAs.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix TLS-ALPN test that fails when run with newer versions of OpenSSL.
      More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.
  • v1.4.0 Changes

    May 05, 2020

    โž• Added

    • 0๏ธโƒฃ Turn off session tickets for apache plugin by default when appropriate.
    • โž• Added serial number of certificate to the output of certbot certificates
    • ๐Ÿ”ฆ Expose two new environment variables in the authenticator and cleanup scripts used by
      the manual plugin: CERTBOT_REMAINING_CHALLENGES is equal to the number of challenges
      remaining after the current challenge, CERTBOT_ALL_DOMAINS is a comma-separated list
      of all domains challenged for the current certificate.
    • โž• Added TLS-ALPN-01 challenge support in the acme library. Support of this
      ๐Ÿš€ challenge in the Certbot client is planned to be added in a future release.
    • โž• Added minimal proxy support for OCSP verification.
    • ๐Ÿ On Windows, hooks are now executed in a Powershell shell instead of a CMD shell,
      allowing both *.ps1 and *.bat as valid scripts for Certbot.

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • Reorganized error message when a user entered an invalid email address.
    • Stop asking interactively if the user would like to add a redirect.
    • ๐Ÿ“ฆ mock dependency is now conditional on Python 2 in all of our packages.
    • ๐ŸŽ Deprecate certbot-auto on Gentoo, macOS, and FreeBSD.

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed

    • When using an RFC 8555 compliant endpoint, the acme library no longer sends the
      resource field in any requests or the type field when responding to challenges.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix nginx plugin crash when non-ASCII configuration file is being read (instead,
      the user will be warned that UTF-8 must be used).
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix hanging OCSP queries during revocation checking - added a 10 second timeout.
    • 0๏ธโƒฃ Standalone servers now have a default socket timeout of 30 seconds, fixing
      ๐Ÿ”Œ cases where an idle connection can cause the standalone plugin to hang.
    • ๐Ÿ“œ Parsing of the RFC 8555 application/pem-certificate-chain now tolerates CRLF line
      endings. This should fix interoperability with Buypass' services.
      More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.
  • v1.3.0 Changes

    March 03, 2020

    โž• Added

    • โž• Added certbot.ocsp Certbot's API. The certbot.ocsp module can be used to
      determine the OCSP status of certificates.
    • Don't verify the existing certificate in HTTP01Response.simple_verify, for
      compatibility with the real-world ACME challenge checks.

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • Certbot will now renew certificates early if they have been revoked according
      to OCSP.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix acme module warnings when response Content-Type includes params (e.g. charset).
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed issue where webroot plugin would incorrectly raise Read-only file system
      error when creating challenge directories (issue #7165).

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed

    More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.

  • v1.2.0 Changes

    February 05, 2020

    โž• Added

    • โž• Added support for Cloudflare's limited-scope API Tokens

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • โž• Add directory field to error message when field is missing.
    • ๐Ÿ”’ If MD5 hasher is not available, try it in non-security mode (fix for FIPS systems) -- #1948
    • ๐Ÿšš Disable old SSL versions and ciphersuites and remove SSLCompression off setting to follow Mozilla recommendations in Apache.
    • โœ‚ Remove ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA from NGINX ciphers list now that Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 are EOLed
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for Python 3.4 has been removed.

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix collections.abc imports for Python 3.9.
      More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo.