v1.14.5

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

v1.14.5 fixes a bug in the DigitalOcean DNS-01 provider which could cause incorrect DNS records to be deleted when using a domain with a CNAME. Special thanks to @BobyMCbobs for reporting this issue and testing the fix!

It also patches CVE-2023-45288.

Known Issues

• ACME Issuer (Let's Encrypt): wrong certificate chain may be used if preferredChain is configured: see 1.14 release notes for more information.

Changes

Bug or Regression

• DigitalOcean: Ensure that only TXT records are considered for deletion when cleaning up after an ACME challenge (#6893 , @SgtCoDFish)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to address CVE-2023-45288 (#6931 , @SgtCoDFish)

v1.13.6

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

v1.13.6 fixes a bug in the DigitalOcean DNS-01 provider which could cause incorrect DNS records to be deleted when using a domain with a CNAME. Special thanks to @BobyMCbobs for reporting this issue and testing the fix!

It also patches CVE-2023-45288.

Known Issues

• ACME Issuer (Let's Encrypt): wrong certificate chain may be used if preferredChain is configured: see 1.14 release notes for more information.

Changes

Bug or Regression

• DigitalOcean: Ensure that only TXT records are considered for deletion when cleaning up after an ACME challenge (#6892, @SgtCoDFish)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to address CVE-2023-45288 (#6932, @SgtCoDFish)

v1.12.10

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

v1.12.10 fixes a bug in the DigitalOcean DNS-01 provider which could cause incorrect DNS records to be deleted when using a domain with a CNAME. Special thanks to @BobyMCbobs for reporting this issue and testing the fix!

It also patches CVE-2023-45288.

Known Issues

• ACME Issuer (Let's Encrypt): wrong certificate chain may be used if preferredChain is configured: see 1.14 release notes for more information.

Changes

Bug or Regression

• DigitalOcean: Ensure that only TXT records are considered for deletion when cleaning up after an ACME challenge (#6894, @SgtCoDFish)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to address CVE-2023-45288 (#6933, @SgtCoDFish)

v1.15.0-alpha.0

This is the first alpha release of cert-manager 1.15, which will be released in April or May 2024. The aim of this first alpha is to let people try out using serviceAccountRef with an external Vault. Read the page serviceAccountRef with external Vault to know more.

Note

The cmctl and kubectl_cert-manager binaries have been moved to https://github.com/cert-manager/cmctl/releases.

📜 Changes since v1.14.0

Feature

• Add support to specify a custom key alias in a JKS Keystore (#6807, @bwaldrep)
• Add the ability to communicate with Vault via mTLS when strict client certificates is enabled at Vault server side (#6614, @rodrigorfk)
• Added an option to provide additional audiences in the service account auth section for Vault. Read the page serviceAccountRef with external Vault to know more. (#6718, @andrey-dubnik)
• Venafi Issuer now sends a cert-manager HTTP User-Agent header in all Venafi Rest API requests.
  For example: cert-manager-certificaterequests-issuer-venafi/v1.15.0+(linux/amd64)+cert-manager/ef068a59008f6ed919b98a7177921ddc9e297200. (#6865, @wallrj)

Bug or Regression

• BUGFIX: Fixes issue with JSON-logging, where only a subset of the log messages were output as JSON. (#6779, @inteon)
• BUGFIX: JKS and PKCS12 stores now contain the full set of CAs specified by an issuer (#6806, @bwaldrep)
• BUGFIX: cainjector leaderelection flag/ config option defaults are missing (#6816, @inteon)
• BUGFIX: cert-manager issuers incorrectly copied the critical flag from the CSR instead of re-calculating that field themselves. (#6724, @inteon)
• Breaking Change: Fixed unintended certificate chain is used if preferredChain is configured. (#6755, @import-shiburin)
• Bugfix: LiteralSubjects with a #= value can result in memory issues due to faulty BER parser (github.com/go-asn1-ber/asn1-ber). (#6770, @inteon)
• Fix backwards incompatible removal of default prometheus Service resource. (#6699, @inteon)
• Fix broken cainjector image value in Helm chart (#6692, @SgtCoDFish)
• Helm: Fix a bug in the logic that differentiates between 0 and an empty value. (#6713, @inteon)
• Make sure the Azure SDK error messages are stable. (#6676, @inteon)
• When using the literalSubject on a Certificate, the webhook validation for the common name now also points to the literalSubject. (#6767, @lunarwhite)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump base images (#6840, @inteon)
• Bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose to v3.0.3 to fix CVE-2024-28180 (#6854, @wallrj)
• Removed deprecated util functions that have been replaced by the slices and k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util packages.
  Removed deprecated CSR functions which have been replaced with other functions in the pkg/util/pki package. (#6730, @inteon)
• Upgrade go to 1.21.8: fixes CVE-2024-24783 (#6823, @inteon)
• Upgrade go to latest version 1.22.1 (#6831, @inteon)
• Upgrade google.golang.org/protobuf: fixing GO-2024-2611 (#6827, @inteon)
• cmctl and kubectl cert-manger have been moved to the https://github.com/cert-manager/cmctl repo and will be versioned separately starting with cmctl v2.0.0 (#6663, @inteon)

Uncategorized

• Added a new Ingress annotation for copying specific Ingress annotations to Certificate's secretTemplate (#6839, @mangeshhambarde)
• Added option to define additional token audiences for the Vault Kubernetes auth (#6744, @andrey-dubnik)
• Allow cert-manager.io/allow-direct-injection in annotations (#6801, @jkroepke)

v1.14.4

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

cert-manager 1.14 brings a variety of features, security improvements and bug fixes, including: support for creating X.509 certificates with "Other Name" fields, and support for creating CA certificates with "Name Constraints" and "Authority Information Accessors" extensions.

⚠️ Known Issues

• ACME Issuer (Let's Encrypt): wrong certificate chain may be used if preferredChain is configured: see release docs for more info and mitigations

ℹ️ Documentation

Release notes
Upgrade notes
Installation instructions

🔧 Breaking changes

See Breaking changes in v1.14.0 release notes

📜 Changes since v1.14.3

Bug or Regression

• Allow cert-manager.io/allow-direct-injection in annotations (#6809, @jetstack-bot)
• BUGFIX: JKS and PKCS12 stores now contain the full set of CAs specified by an issuer (#6812, @jetstack-bot)
• BUGFIX: cainjector leaderelection flag/ config option defaults are missing (#6819, @jetstack-bot)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump base images. (#6842, @inteon)
• Upgrade Helm: fix CVE-2024-26147 alert (#6834, @inteon)
• Upgrade go to 1.21.8: fixes CVE-2024-24783 (#6825, @jetstack-bot)
• Upgrade google.golang.org/protobuf: fixing GO-2024-2611 (#6829, @inteon)

v1.13.5

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

⚠️ Known Issues

• ACME Issuer (Let's Encrypt): wrong certificate chain may be used if preferredChain is configured: see release docs for more info and mitigations

ℹ️ Documentation

Release notes
Upgrade notes
Installation instructions

🔧 Breaking changes

See Breaking changes in v1.13.0 release notes

📜 Changes since v1.13.4

Bug or Regression

• Allow cert-manager.io/allow-direct-injection in annotations (#6810, @jetstack-bot)
• BUGFIX: JKS and PKCS12 stores now contain the full set of CAs specified by an issuer (#6814, @inteon)
• BUGFIX: fix race condition due to registering and using global runtime.Scheme variables (#6832, @inteon)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump base images to the latest version. (#6841, @inteon)
• Upgrade go to 1.21.8: fixes CVE-2024-24783 (#6824, @inteon)
• Upgrade google.golang.org/protobuf: fixing GO-2024-2611 (#6828, @inteon)

v1.12.9

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

⚠️ Known Issues

• ACME Issuer (Let's Encrypt): wrong certificate chain may be used if preferredChain is configured: see release docs for more info and mitigations

ℹ️ Documentation

Release notes
Upgrade notes
Installation instructions

🔧 Breaking changes

See Breaking changes in v1.12.0 release notes

📜 Changes since v1.12.8

Bug or Regression

• Allow cert-manager.io/allow-direct-injection in annotations (#6811, @jetstack-bot)
• BUGFIX: JKS and PKCS12 stores now contain the full set of CAs specified by an issuer (#6813, @inteon)
• BUGFIX: fix race condition due to registering and using global runtime.Scheme variables (#6833, @inteon)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump base images to the latest version. (#6843, @jetstack-bot)
• Upgrade go to 1.21.8: fixes CVE-2024-24783 (#6826, @jetstack-bot)
• Upgrade google.golang.org/protobuf: fixing GO-2024-2611 (#6830, @inteon)

v1.14.3

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

cert-manager 1.14 brings a variety of features, security improvements and bug fixes, including: support for creating X.509 certificates with "Other Name" fields, and support for creating CA certificates with "Name Constraints" and "Authority Information Accessors" extensions.

⚠️ Known Issues

• ACME Issuer (Let's Encrypt): wrong certificate chain may be used if preferredChain is configured: see release docs for more info and mitigations
• cainjector leaderelection is incorrectly disabled by default because the flag/ config option defaults are missing (#6819)

ℹ️ Documentation

Release notes
Upgrade notes
Installation instructions

🔧 Breaking changes

See Breaking changes in v1.14.0 release notes

📜 Changes since v1.14.2

Bug or Regression

• BUGFIX: Fixes issue with JSON-logging, where only a subset of the log messages were output as JSON. (#6781, @jetstack-bot)
• BUGFIX: LiteralSubjects with a #= value can result in memory issues due to faulty BER parser (github.com/go-asn1-ber/asn1-ber). (#6774, @jetstack-bot)

v1.13.4

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

⚠️ Known Issues

• ACME Issuer (Let's Encrypt): wrong certificate chain may be used if preferredChain is configured: see release docs for more info and mitigations

ℹ️ Documentation

Release notes
Upgrade notes
Installation instructions

🔧 Breaking changes

See Breaking changes in v1.13.0 release notes

📜 Changes since v1.13.3

Bug or Regression

• BUGFIX: LiteralSubjects with a #= value can result in memory issues due to faulty BER parser (github.com/go-asn1-ber/asn1-ber). (#6772, @jetstack-bot)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump go to 1.20.14 (#6736, @jetstack-bot)
• Cert-manager is now built with Go 1.20.12 (#6544, @wallrj)
• Cert-manager is now built with Go 1.20.13 (#6630, @SgtCoDFish)
• Fix CVE 2023 48795 by upgrading to golang.org/x/crypto@v0.17.0 (#6675, @wallrj)
• Fix GHSA-7ww5-4wqc-m92c by upgrading to github.com/containerd/containerd@v1.7.12 (#6684, @wallrj)

v1.12.8

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

⚠️ Known Issues

• ACME Issuer (Let's Encrypt): wrong certificate chain may be used if preferredChain is configured: see release docs for more info and mitigations

ℹ️ Documentation

Release notes
Upgrade notes
Installation instructions

🔧 Breaking changes

See Breaking changes in v1.12.0 release notes

📜 Changes since v1.12.7

Bug or Regression

• BUGFIX: LiteralSubjects with a #= value can result in memory issues due to faulty BER parser (github.com/go-asn1-ber/asn1-ber). (#6773, @jetstack-bot)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump go to 1.20.14 (#6733, @SgtCoDFish)
• Cert-manager is now built with Go 1.20.13 (#6629, @SgtCoDFish)
• Fix CVE 2023 48795 by upgrading to golang.org/x/crypto@v0.17.0 (#6678, @wallrj)
• Fix GHSA-7ww5-4wqc-m92c by upgrading to github.com/containerd/containerd@v1.7.12 (#6689, @wallrj)