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Certbot change log

Certbot adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.29.0 - master

Added

  • Noninteractive renewals with certbot renew (those not started from a terminal) now randomly sleep 1-480 seconds before beginning work in order to spread out load spikes on the server side.
  • Added External Account Binding support in cli and acme library. Command line arguments --eab-kid and --eab-hmac-key added.

Changed

  • Private key permissioning changes: Renewal preserves existing group mode & gid of previous private key material. Private keys for new lineages (i.e. new certs, not renewed) default to 0o600.

Fixed

  • Update code and dependencies to clean up Resource and Deprecation Warnings.
  • Only depend on imgconverter extension for Sphinx >= 1.6

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only package with changes other than its version number was:

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/62?closed=1

0.28.0 - 2018-11-7

Added

  • revoke accepts --cert-name, and doesn't accept both --cert-name and --cert-path.
  • Use the ACMEv2 newNonce endpoint when a new nonce is needed, and newNonce is available in the directory.

Changed

  • Removed documentation mentions of #letsencrypt IRC on Freenode.
  • Write README to the base of (config-dir)/live directory
  • --manual will explicitly warn users that earlier challenges should remain in place when setting up subsequent challenges.
  • Warn when using deprecated acme.challenges.TLSSNI01
  • Log warning about TLS-SNI deprecation in Certbot
  • Stop preferring TLS-SNI in the Apache, Nginx, and standalone plugins
  • OVH DNS plugin now relies on Lexicon>=2.7.14 to support HTTP proxies
  • Default time the Linode plugin waits for DNS changes to propogate is now 1200 seconds.

Fixed

  • Match Nginx parser update in allowing variable names to start with ${.
  • Fix ranking of vhosts in Nginx so that all port-matching vhosts come first
  • Correct OVH integration tests on machines without internet access.
  • Stop caching the results of ipv6_info in http01.py
  • Test fix for Route53 plugin to prevent boto3 making outgoing connections.
  • The grammar used by Augeas parser in Apache plugin was updated to fix various parsing errors.
  • The CloudXNS, DNSimple, DNS Made Easy, Gehirn, Linode, LuaDNS, NS1, OVH, and Sakura Cloud DNS plugins are now compatible with Lexicon 3.0+.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only package with changes other than its version number was:

  • acme
  • certbot
  • certbot-apache
  • certbot-dns-cloudxns
  • certbot-dns-dnsimple
  • certbot-dns-dnsmadeeasy
  • certbot-dns-gehirn
  • certbot-dns-linode
  • certbot-dns-luadns
  • certbot-dns-nsone
  • certbot-dns-ovh
  • certbot-dns-route53
  • certbot-dns-sakuracloud
  • certbot-nginx

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/59?closed=1

0.27.1 - 2018-09-06

Fixed

  • Fixed parameter name in OpenSUSE overrides for default parameters in the Apache plugin. Certbot on OpenSUSE works again.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only package with changes other than its version number was:

  • certbot-apache

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/60?closed=1

0.27.0 - 2018-09-05

Added

  • The Apache plugin now accepts the parameter --apache-ctl which can be used to configure the path to the Apache control script.

Changed

  • When using acme.client.ClientV2 (or acme.client.BackwardsCompatibleClientV2 with an ACME server that supports a newer version of the ACME protocol), an acme.errors.ConflictError will be raised if you try to create an ACME account with a key that has already been used. Previously, a JSON parsing error was raised in this scenario when using the library with Let's Encrypt's ACMEv2 endpoint.

Fixed

  • When Apache is not installed, Certbot's Apache plugin no longer prints messages about being unable to find apachectl to the terminal when the plugin is not selected.
  • If you're using the Apache plugin with the --apache-vhost-root flag set to a directory containing a disabled virtual host for the domain you're requesting a certificate for, the virtual host will now be temporarily enabled if necessary to pass the HTTP challenge.
  • The documentation for the Certbot package can now be built using Sphinx 1.6+.
  • You can now call query_registration without having to first call new_account on acme.client.ClientV2 objects.
  • The requirement of setuptools>=1.0 has been removed from certbot-dns-ovh.
  • Names in certbot-dns-sakuracloud's tests have been updated to refer to Sakura Cloud rather than NS1 whose plugin certbot-dns-sakuracloud was based on.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only package with changes other than its version number was:

  • acme
  • certbot
  • certbot-apache
  • certbot-dns-ovh
  • certbot-dns-sakuracloud

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/57?closed=1

0.26.1 - 2018-07-17

Fixed

  • Fix a bug that was triggered when users who had previously manually set --server to get ACMEv2 certs tried to renew ACMEv1 certs.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only package with changes other than its version number was:

  • certbot

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/58?closed=1

0.26.0 - 2018-07-11

Added

  • A new security enhancement which we're calling AutoHSTS has been added to Certbot's Apache plugin. This enhancement configures your webserver to send a HTTP Strict Transport Security header with a low max-age value that is slowly increased over time. The max-age value is not increased to a large value until you've successfully managed to renew your certificate. This enhancement can be requested with the --auto-hsts flag.
  • New official DNS plugins have been created for Gehirn Infrastracture Service, Linode, OVH, and Sakura Cloud. These plugins can be found on our Docker Hub page at https://hub.docker.com/u/certbot and on PyPI.
  • The ability to reuse ACME accounts from Let's Encrypt's ACMEv1 endpoint on Let's Encrypt's ACMEv2 endpoint has been added.
  • Certbot and its components now support Python 3.7.
  • Certbot's install subcommand now allows you to interactively choose which certificate to install from the list of certificates managed by Certbot.
  • Certbot now accepts the flag --no-autorenew which causes any obtained certificates to not be automatically renewed when it approaches expiration.
  • Support for parsing the TLS-ALPN-01 challenge has been added back to the acme library.

Changed

  • Certbot's default ACME server has been changed to Let's Encrypt's ACMEv2 endpoint. By default, this server will now be used for both new certificate lineages and renewals.
  • The Nginx plugin is no longer marked labeled as an "Alpha" version.
  • The prepare method of Certbot's plugins is no longer called before running "Updater" enhancements that are run on every invocation of certbot renew.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only packages with functional changes were:

  • acme
  • certbot
  • certbot-apache
  • certbot-dns-gehirn
  • certbot-dns-linode
  • certbot-dns-ovh
  • certbot-dns-sakuracloud
  • certbot-nginx

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/55?closed=1

0.25.1 - 2018-06-13

Fixed

  • TLS-ALPN-01 support has been removed from our acme library. Using our current dependencies, we are unable to provide a correct implementation of this challenge so we decided to remove it from the library until we can provide proper support.
  • Issues causing test failures when running the tests in the acme package with pytest<3.0 has been resolved.
  • certbot-nginx now correctly depends on acme>=0.25.0.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only packages with changes other than their version number were:

  • acme
  • certbot-nginx

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/56?closed=1

0.25.0 - 2018-06-06

Added

  • Support for the ready status type was added to acme. Without this change, Certbot and acme users will begin encountering errors when using Let's Encrypt's ACMEv2 API starting on June 19th for the staging environment and July 5th for production. See https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acmev2-order-ready-status/62866 for more information.
  • Certbot now accepts the flag --reuse-key which will cause the same key to be used in the certificate when the lineage is renewed rather than generating a new key.
  • You can now add multiple email addresses to your ACME account with Certbot by providing a comma separated list of emails to the --email flag.
  • Support for Let's Encrypt's upcoming TLS-ALPN-01 challenge was added to acme. For more information, see https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/tls-alpn-validation-method/63814/1.
  • acme now supports specifying the source address to bind to when sending outgoing connections. You still cannot specify this address using Certbot.
  • If you run Certbot against Let's Encrypt's ACMEv2 staging server but don't already have an account registered at that server URL, Certbot will automatically reuse your staging account from Let's Encrypt's ACMEv1 endpoint if it exists.
  • Interfaces were added to Certbot allowing plugins to be called at additional points. The GenericUpdater interface allows plugins to perform actions every time certbot renew is run, regardless of whether any certificates are due for renewal, and the RenewDeployer interface allows plugins to perform actions when a certificate is renewed. See certbot.interfaces for more information.

Changed

  • When running Certbot with --dry-run and you don't already have a staging account, the created account does not contain an email address even if one was provided to avoid expiration emails from Let's Encrypt's staging server.
  • certbot-nginx does a better job of automatically detecting the location of Nginx's configuration files when run on BSD based systems.
  • acme now requires and uses pytest when running tests with setuptools with python setup.py test.
  • certbot config_changes no longer waits for user input before exiting.

Fixed

  • Misleading log output that caused users to think that Certbot's standalone plugin failed to bind to a port when performing a challenge has been corrected.
  • An issue where certbot-nginx would fail to enable HSTS if the server block already had an add_header directive has been resolved.
  • certbot-nginx now does a better job detecting the server block to base the configuration for TLS-SNI challenges on.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only packages with functional changes were:

  • acme
  • certbot
  • certbot-apache
  • certbot-nginx

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/54?closed=1

0.24.0 - 2018-05-02

Added

  • certbot now has an enhance subcommand which allows you to configure security enhancements like HTTP to HTTPS redirects, OCSP stapling, and HSTS without reinstalling a certificate.
  • certbot-dns-rfc2136 now allows the user to specify the port to use to reach the DNS server in its credentials file.
  • acme now parses the wildcard field included in authorizations so it can be used by users of the library.

Changed

  • certbot-dns-route53 used to wait for each DNS update to propagate before sending the next one, but now it sends all updates before waiting which speeds up issuance for multiple domains dramatically.
  • Certbot's official Docker images are now based on Alpine Linux 3.7 rather than 3.4 because 3.4 has reached its end-of-life.
  • We've doubled the time Certbot will spend polling authorizations before timing out.
  • The level of the message logged when Certbot is being used with non-standard paths warning that crontabs for renewal included in Certbot packages from OS package managers may not work has been reduced. This stops the message from being written to stderr every time certbot renew runs.

Fixed

  • certbot-auto now works with Python 3.6.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only packages with changes other than their version number were:

  • acme
  • certbot
  • certbot-apache
  • certbot-dns-digitalocean (only style improvements to tests)
  • certbot-dns-rfc2136

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/52?closed=1

0.23.0 - 2018-04-04

Added

  • Support for OpenResty was added to the Nginx plugin.

Changed

  • The timestamps in Certbot's logfiles now use the system's local time zone rather than UTC.
  • Certbot's DNS plugins that use Lexicon now rely on Lexicon>=2.2.1 to be able to create and delete multiple TXT records on a single domain.
  • certbot-dns-google's test suite now works without an internet connection.

Fixed

  • Removed a small window that if during which an error occurred, Certbot wouldn't clean up performed challenges.
  • The parameters default and ipv6only are now removed from listen directives when creating a new server block in the Nginx plugin.
  • server_name directives enclosed in quotation marks in Nginx are now properly supported.
  • Resolved an issue preventing the Apache plugin from starting Apache when it's not currently running on RHEL and Gentoo based systems.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only packages with changes other than their version number were:

  • certbot
  • certbot-apache
  • certbot-dns-cloudxns
  • certbot-dns-dnsimple
  • certbot-dns-dnsmadeeasy
  • certbot-dns-google
  • certbot-dns-luadns
  • certbot-dns-nsone
  • certbot-dns-rfc2136
  • certbot-nginx

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/50?closed=1

0.22.2 - 2018-03-19

Fixed

  • A type error introduced in 0.22.1 that would occur during challenge cleanup when a Certbot plugin raises an exception while trying to complete the challenge was fixed.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only packages with changes other than their version number were:

  • certbot

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/53?closed=1

0.22.1 - 2018-03-19

Changed

  • The ACME server used with Certbot's --dry-run and --staging flags is now Let's Encrypt's ACMEv2 staging server which allows people to also test ACMEv2 features with these flags.

Fixed

  • The HTTP Content-Type header is now set to the correct value during certificate revocation with new versions of the ACME protocol.
  • When using Certbot with Let's Encrypt's ACMEv2 server, it would add a blank line to the top of chain.pem and between the certificates in fullchain.pem for each lineage. These blank lines have been removed.
  • Resolved a bug that caused Certbot's --allow-subset-of-names flag not to work.
  • Fixed a regression in acme.client.Client that caused the class to not work when it was initialized without a ClientNetwork which is done by some of the other projects using our ACME library.

Despite us having broken lockstep, we are continuing to release new versions of all Certbot components during releases for the time being, however, the only packages with changes other than their version number were:

  • acme
  • certbot

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/51?closed=1

0.22.0 - 2018-03-07

Added

  • Support for obtaining wildcard certificates and a newer version of the ACME protocol such as the one implemented by Let's Encrypt's upcoming ACMEv2 endpoint was added to Certbot and its ACME library. Certbot still works with older ACME versions and will automatically change the version of the protocol used based on the version the ACME CA implements.
  • The Apache and Nginx plugins are now able to automatically install a wildcard certificate to multiple virtual hosts that you select from your server configuration.
  • The certbot install command now accepts the --cert-name flag for selecting a certificate.
  • acme.client.BackwardsCompatibleClientV2 was added to Certbot's ACME library which automatically handles most of the differences between new and old ACME versions. acme.client.ClientV2 is also available for people who only want to support one version of the protocol or want to handle the differences between versions themselves.
  • certbot-auto now supports the flag --install-only which has the script install Certbot and its dependencies and exit without invoking Certbot.
  • Support for issuing a single certificate for a wildcard and base domain was added to our Google Cloud DNS plugin. To do this, we now require your API credentials have additional permissions, however, your credentials will already have these permissions unless you defined a custom role with fewer permissions than the standard DNS administrator role provided by Google. These permissions are also only needed for the case described above so it will continue to work for existing users. For more information about the permissions changes, see the documentation in the plugin.

Changed

  • We have broken lockstep between our ACME library, Certbot, and its plugins. This means that the different components do not need to be the same version to work together like they did previously. This makes packaging easier because not every piece of Certbot needs to be repackaged to ship a change to a subset of its components.
  • Support for Python 2.6 and Python 3.3 has been removed from ACME, Certbot, Certbot's plugins, and certbot-auto. If you are using certbot-auto on a RHEL 6 based system, it will walk you through the process of installing Certbot with Python 3 and refuse to upgrade to a newer version of Certbot until you have done so.
  • Certbot's components now work with older versions of setuptools to simplify packaging for EPEL 7.

Fixed

  • Issues caused by Certbot's Nginx plugin adding multiple ipv6only directives has been resolved.
  • A problem where Certbot's Apache plugin would add redundant include directives for the TLS configuration managed by Certbot has been fixed.
  • Certbot's webroot plugin now properly deletes any directories it creates.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/48?closed=1

0.21.1 - 2018-01-25

Fixed

  • When creating an HTTP to HTTPS redirect in Nginx, we now ensure the Host header of the request is set to an expected value before redirecting users to the domain found in the header. The previous way Certbot configured Nginx redirects was a potential security issue which you can read more about at https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/security-issue-with-redirects-added-by-certbots-nginx-plugin/51493.
  • Fixed a problem where Certbot's Apache plugin could fail HTTP-01 challenges if basic authentication is configured for the domain you request a certificate for.
  • certbot-auto --no-bootstrap now properly tries to use Python 3.4 on RHEL 6 based systems rather than Python 2.6.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/49?closed=1

0.21.0 - 2018-01-17

Added

  • Support for the HTTP-01 challenge type was added to our Apache and Nginx plugins. For those not aware, Let's Encrypt disabled the TLS-SNI-01 challenge type which was what was previously being used by our Apache and Nginx plugins last week due to a security issue. For more information about Let's Encrypt's change, click here. Our Apache and Nginx plugins will automatically switch to use HTTP-01 so no changes need to be made to your Certbot configuration, however, you should make sure your server is accessible on port 80 and isn't behind an external proxy doing things like redirecting all traffic from HTTP to HTTPS. HTTP to HTTPS redirects inside Apache and Nginx are fine.
  • IPv6 support was added to the Nginx plugin.
  • Support for automatically creating server blocks based on the default server block was added to the Nginx plugin.
  • The flags --delete-after-revoke and --no-delete-after-revoke were added allowing users to control whether the revoke subcommand also deletes the certificates it is revoking.

Changed

  • We deprecated support for Python 2.6 and Python 3.3 in Certbot and its ACME library. Support for these versions of Python will be removed in the next major release of Certbot. If you are using certbot-auto on a RHEL 6 based system, it will guide you through the process of installing Python 3.
  • We split our implementation of JOSE (Javascript Object Signing and Encryption) out of our ACME library and into a separate package named josepy. This package is available on PyPI and on GitHub.
  • We updated the ciphersuites used in Apache to the new values recommended by Mozilla. The major change here is adding ChaCha20 to the list of supported ciphersuites.

Fixed

  • An issue with our Apache plugin on Gentoo due to differences in their apache2ctl command have been resolved.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/47?closed=1

0.20.0 - 2017-12-06

Added

  • Certbot's ACME library now recognizes URL fields in challenge objects in preparation for Let's Encrypt's new ACME endpoint. The value is still accessible in our ACME library through the name "uri".

Changed

  • The Apache plugin now parses some distro specific Apache configuration files on non-Debian systems allowing it to get a clearer picture on the running configuration. Internally, these changes were structured so that external contributors can easily write patches to make the plugin work in new Apache configurations.
  • Certbot better reports network failures by removing information about connection retries from the error output.
  • An unnecessary question when using Certbot's webroot plugin interactively has been removed.

Fixed

  • Certbot's NGINX plugin no longer sometimes incorrectly reports that it was unable to deploy a HTTP->HTTPS redirect when requesting Certbot to enable a redirect for multiple domains.
  • Problems where the Apache plugin was failing to find directives and duplicating existing directives on openSUSE have been resolved.
  • An issue running the test shipped with Certbot and some our DNS plugins with older versions of mock have been resolved.
  • On some systems, users reported strangely interleaved output depending on when stdout and stderr were flushed. This problem was resolved by having Certbot regularly flush these streams.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/44?closed=1

0.19.0 - 2017-10-04

Added

  • Certbot now has renewal hook directories where executable files can be placed for Certbot to run with the renew subcommand. Pre-hooks, deploy-hooks, and post-hooks can be specified in the renewal-hooks/pre, renewal-hooks/deploy, and renewal-hooks/post directories respectively in Certbot's configuration directory (which is /etc/letsencrypt by default). Certbot will automatically create these directories when it is run if they do not already exist.
  • After revoking a certificate with the revoke subcommand, Certbot will offer to delete the lineage associated with the certificate. When Certbot is run with --non-interactive, it will automatically try to delete the associated lineage.
  • When using Certbot's Google Cloud DNS plugin on Google Compute Engine, you no longer have to provide a credential file to Certbot if you have configured sufficient permissions for the instance which Certbot can automatically obtain using Google's metadata service.

Changed

  • When deleting certificates interactively using the delete subcommand, Certbot will now allow you to select multiple lineages to be deleted at once.
  • Certbot's Apache plugin no longer always parses Apache's sites-available on Debian based systems and instead only parses virtual hosts included in your Apache configuration. You can provide an additional directory for Certbot to parse using the command line flag --apache-vhost-root.

Fixed

  • The plugins subcommand can now be run without root access.
  • certbot-auto now includes a timeout when updating itself so it no longer hangs indefinitely when it is unable to connect to the external server.
  • An issue where Certbot's Apache plugin would sometimes fail to deploy a certificate on Debian based systems if mod_ssl wasn't already enabled has been resolved.
  • A bug in our Docker image where the certificates subcommand could not report if certificates maintained by Certbot had been revoked has been fixed.
  • Certbot's RFC 2136 DNS plugin (for use with software like BIND) now properly performs DNS challenges when the domain being verified contains a CNAME record.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/43?closed=1

0.18.2 - 2017-09-20

Fixed

  • An issue where Certbot's ACME module would raise an AttributeError trying to create self-signed certificates when used with pyOpenSSL 17.3.0 has been resolved. For Certbot users with this version of pyOpenSSL, this caused Certbot to crash when performing a TLS SNI challenge or when the Nginx plugin tried to create an SSL server block.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/46?closed=1

0.18.1 - 2017-09-08

Fixed

  • If certbot-auto was running as an unprivileged user and it upgraded from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0, it would crash with a permissions error and would need to be run again to successfully complete the upgrade. This has been fixed and certbot-auto should upgrade cleanly to 0.18.1.
  • Certbot usually uses "certbot-auto" or "letsencrypt-auto" in error messages and the User-Agent string instead of "certbot" when you are using one of these wrapper scripts. Proper detection of this was broken with Certbot's new installation path in /opt in 0.18.0 but this problem has been resolved.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/45?closed=1

0.18.0 - 2017-09-06

Added

  • The Nginx plugin now configures Nginx to use 2048-bit Diffie-Hellman parameters. Java 6 clients do not support Diffie-Hellman parameters larger than 1024 bits, so if you need to support these clients you will need to manually modify your Nginx configuration after using the Nginx installer.

Changed

  • certbot-auto now installs Certbot in directories under /opt/eff.org. If you had an existing installation from certbot-auto, a symlink is created to the new directory. You can configure certbot-auto to use a different path by setting the environment variable VENV_PATH.
  • The Nginx plugin can now be selected in Certbot's interactive output.
  • Output verbosity of renewal failures when running with --quiet has been reduced.
  • The default revocation reason shown in Certbot help output now is a human readable string instead of a numerical code.
  • Plugin selection is now included in normal terminal output.

Fixed

  • A newer version of ConfigArgParse is now installed when using certbot-auto causing values set to false in a Certbot INI configuration file to be handled intuitively. Setting a boolean command line flag to false is equivalent to not including it in the configuration file at all.
  • New naming conventions preventing certbot-auto from installing OS dependencies on Fedora 26 have been resolved.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/42?closed=1

0.17.0 - 2017-08-02

Added

  • Support in our nginx plugin for modifying SSL server blocks that do not contain certificate or key directives.
  • A --max-log-backups flag to allow users to configure or even completely disable Certbot's built in log rotation.
  • A --user-agent-comment flag to allow people who build tools around Certbot to differentiate their user agent string by adding a comment to its default value.

Changed

  • Due to some awesome work by cryptography project, compilation can now be avoided on most systems when using certbot-auto. This eliminates many problems people have had in the past such as running out of memory, having invalid headers/libraries, and changes to the OS packages on their system after compilation breaking Certbot.
  • The --renew-hook flag has been hidden in favor of --deploy-hook. This new flag works exactly the same way except it is always run when a certificate is issued rather than just when it is renewed.
  • We have started printing deprecation warnings in certbot-auto for experimentally supported systems with OS packages available.
  • A certificate lineage's name is included in error messages during renewal.

Fixed

  • Encoding errors that could occur when parsing error messages from the ACME server containing Unicode have been resolved.
  • certbot-auto no longer prints misleading messages about there being a newer pip version available when installation fails.
  • Certbot's ACME library now properly extracts domains from critical SAN extensions.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.17.0+is%3Aclosed

0.16.0 - 2017-07-05

Added

  • A plugin for performing DNS challenges using dynamic DNS updates as defined in RFC 2316. This plugin is packaged separately from Certbot and is available at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/certbot-dns-rfc2136. It supports Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.3+. At this time, there isn't a good way to install this plugin when using certbot-auto, but this should change in the near future.
  • Plugins for performing DNS challenges for the providers DNS Made Easy and LuaDNS. These plugins are packaged separately from Certbot and support Python 2.7 and 3.3+. Currently, there isn't a good way to install these plugins when using certbot-auto, but that should change soon.
  • Support for performing TLS-SNI-01 challenges when using the manual plugin.
  • Automatic detection of Arch Linux in the Apache plugin providing better default settings for the plugin.

Changed

  • The text of the interactive question about whether a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS should be added by Certbot has been rewritten to better explain the choices to the user.
  • Simplified HTTP challenge instructions in the manual plugin.

Fixed

  • Problems performing a dry run when using the Nginx plugin have been fixed.
  • Resolved an issue where certbot-dns-digitalocean's test suite would sometimes fail when ran using Python 3.
  • On some systems, previous versions of certbot-auto would error out with a message about a missing hash for setuptools. This has been fixed.
  • A bug where Certbot would sometimes not print a space at the end of an interactive prompt has been resolved.
  • Nonfatal tracebacks are no longer shown in rare cases where Certbot encounters an exception trying to close its TCP connection with the ACME server.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.16.0+is%3Aclosed

0.15.0 - 2017-06-08

Added

  • Plugins for performing DNS challenges for popular providers. Like the Apache and Nginx plugins, these plugins are packaged separately and not included in Certbot by default. So far, we have plugins for Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, and Google Cloud which all work on Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.3+. Additionally, we have plugins for CloudXNS, DNSimple, NS1 which work on Python 2.7 and 3.3+ (and not 2.6). Currently, there isn't a good way to install these plugins when using certbot-auto, but that should change soon.
  • IPv6 support in the standalone plugin. When performing a challenge, the standalone plugin automatically handles listening for IPv4/IPv6 traffic based on the configuration of your system.
  • A mechanism for keeping your Apache and Nginx SSL/TLS configuration up to date. When the Apache or Nginx plugins are used, they place SSL/TLS configuration options in the root of Certbot's config directory (/etc/letsencrypt by default). Now when a new version of these plugins run on your system, they will automatically update the file to the newest version if it is unmodified. If you manually modified the file, Certbot will display a warning giving you a path to the updated file which you can use as a reference to manually update your modified copy.
  • --http-01-address and --tls-sni-01-address flags for controlling the address Certbot listens on when using the standalone plugin.
  • The command certbot certificates that lists certificates managed by Certbot now performs additional validity checks to notify you if your files have become corrupted.

Changed

  • Messages custom hooks print to stdout are now displayed by Certbot when not running in --quiet mode.
  • jwk and alg fields in JWS objects have been moved into the protected header causing Certbot to more closely follow the latest version of the ACME spec.

Fixed

  • Permissions on renewal configuration files are now properly preserved when they are updated.
  • A bug causing Certbot to display strange defaults in its help output when using Python <= 2.7.4 has been fixed.
  • Certbot now properly handles mixed case domain names found in custom CSRs.
  • A number of poorly worded prompts and error messages.

Removed

  • Support for OpenSSL 1.0.0 in certbot-auto has been removed as we now pin a newer version of cryptography which dropped support for this version.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.15.0+is%3Aclosed

0.14.2 - 2017-05-25

Fixed

  • Certbot 0.14.0 included a bug where Certbot would create a temporary log file (usually in /tmp) if the program exited during argument parsing. If a user provided -h/--help/help, --version, or an invalid command line argument, Certbot would create this temporary log file. This was especially bothersome to certbot-auto users as certbot-auto runs certbot --version internally to see if the script needs to upgrade causing it to create at least one of these files on every run. This problem has been resolved.

More details about this change can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.14.2+is%3Aclosed

0.14.1 - 2017-05-16

Fixed

  • Certbot now works with configargparse 0.12.0.
  • Issues with the Apache plugin and Augeas 1.7+ have been resolved.
  • A problem where the Nginx plugin would fail to install certificates on systems that had the plugin's SSL/TLS options file from 7+ months ago has been fixed.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.14.1+is%3Aclosed

0.14.0 - 2017-05-04

Added

  • Python 3.3+ support for all Certbot packages. certbot-auto still currently only supports Python 2, but the acme, certbot, certbot-apache, and certbot-nginx packages on PyPI now fully support Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.3+.
  • Certbot's Apache plugin now handles multiple virtual hosts per file.
  • Lockfiles to prevent multiple versions of Certbot running simultaneously.

Changed

  • When converting an HTTP virtual host to HTTPS in Apache, Certbot only copies the virtual host rather than the entire contents of the file it's contained in.
  • The Nginx plugin now includes SSL/TLS directives in a separate file located in Certbot's configuration directory rather than copying the contents of the file into every modified server block.

Fixed

  • Ensure logging is configured before parts of Certbot attempt to log any messages.
  • Support for the --quiet flag in certbot-auto.
  • Reverted a change made in a previous release to make the acme and certbot packages always depend on argparse. This dependency is conditional again on the user's Python version.
  • Small bugs in the Nginx plugin such as properly handling empty server blocks and setting server_names_hash_bucket_size during challenges.

As always, a more complete list of changes can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.14.0+is%3Aclosed

0.13.0 - 2017-04-06

Added

  • --debug-challenges now pauses Certbot after setting up challenges for debugging.
  • The Nginx parser can now handle all valid directives in configuration files.
  • Nginx ciphersuites have changed to Mozilla Intermediate.
  • certbot-auto --no-bootstrap provides the option to not install OS dependencies.

Fixed

  • --register-unsafely-without-email now respects --quiet.
  • Hyphenated renewal parameters are now saved in renewal config files.
  • --dry-run no longer persists keys and csrs.
  • Certbot no longer hangs when trying to start Nginx in Arch Linux.
  • Apache rewrite rules no longer double-encode characters.

A full list of changes is available on GitHub: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20milestone%3A0.13.0%20is%3Aclosed%20

0.12.0 - 2017-03-02

Added

  • Certbot now allows non-camelcase Apache VirtualHost names.
  • Certbot now allows more log messages to be silenced.

Fixed

  • Fixed a regression around using --cert-name when getting new certificates

More information about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20milestone%3A0.12.0

0.11.1 - 2017-02-01

Fixed

  • Resolved a problem where Certbot would crash while parsing command line arguments in some cases.
  • Fixed a typo.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20milestone%3A0.11.1%20is%3Aclosed

0.11.0 - 2017-02-01

Added

  • When using the standalone plugin while running Certbot interactively and a required port is bound by another process, Certbot will give you the option to retry to grab the port rather than immediately exiting.
  • You are now able to deactivate your account with the Let's Encrypt server using the unregister subcommand.
  • When revoking a certificate using the revoke subcommand, you now have the option to provide the reason the certificate is being revoked to Let's Encrypt with --reason.

Changed

  • Providing --quiet to certbot-auto now silences package manager output.

Removed

  • Removed the optional dnspython dependency in our acme package. Now the library does not support client side verification of the DNS challenge.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.11.0+is%3Aclosed

0.10.2 - 2017-01-25

Added

  • If Certbot receives a request with a badNonce error, it now automatically retries the request. Since nonces from Let's Encrypt expire, this helps people performing the DNS challenge with the manual plugin who may have to wait an extended period of time for their DNS changes to propagate.

Fixed

  • Certbot now saves the --preferred-challenges values for renewal. Previously these values were discarded causing a different challenge type to be used when renewing certs in some cases.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.10.2+is%3Aclosed

0.10.1 - 2017-01-13

Fixed

  • Resolve problems where when asking Certbot to update a certificate at an existing path to include different domain names, the old names would continue to be used.
  • Fix issues successfully running our unit test suite on some systems.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.10.1+is%3Aclosed

0.10.0 - 2017-01-11

Added

  • Added the ability to customize and automatically complete DNS and HTTP domain validation challenges with the manual plugin. The flags --manual-auth-hook and --manual-cleanup-hook can now be provided when using the manual plugin to execute commands provided by the user to perform and clean up challenges provided by the CA. This is best used in complicated setups where the DNS challenge must be used or Certbot's existing plugins cannot be used to perform HTTP challenges. For more information on how this works, see certbot --help manual.
  • Added a --cert-name flag for specifying the name to use for the certificate in Certbot's configuration directory. Using this flag in combination with -d/--domains, a user can easily request a new certificate with different domains and save it with the name provided by --cert-name. Additionally, --cert-name can be used to select a certificate with the certonly and run subcommands so a full list of domains in the certificate does not have to be provided.
  • Added subcommand certificates for listing the certificates managed by Certbot and their properties.
  • Added the delete subcommand for removing certificates managed by Certbot from the configuration directory.
  • Certbot now supports requesting internationalized domain names (IDNs).
  • Hooks provided to Certbot are now saved to be reused during renewal. If you run Certbot with --pre-hook, --renew-hook, or --post-hook flags when obtaining a certificate, the provided commands will automatically be saved and executed again when renewing the certificate. A pre-hook and/or post-hook can also be given to the certbot renew command either on the command line or in a configuration file to run an additional command before/after any certificate is renewed. Hooks will only be run if a certificate is renewed.
  • Support Busybox in certbot-auto.

Changed

  • Recategorized -h/--help output to improve documentation and discoverability.

Removed

  • Removed the ncurses interface. This change solves problems people were having on many systems, reduces the number of Certbot dependencies, and simplifies our code. Certbot's only interface now is the text interface which was available by providing -t/--text to earlier versions of Certbot.

Fixed

  • Many small bug fixes.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.10.0is%3Aclosed

0.9.3 - 2016-10-13

Added

  • The Apache plugin uses information about your OS to help determine the layout of your Apache configuration directory. We added a patch to ensure this code behaves the same way when testing on different systems as the tests were failing in some cases.

Changed

  • Certbot adopted more conservative behavior about reporting a needed port as unavailable when using the standalone plugin.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/27?closed=1

0.9.2 - 2016-10-12

Added

  • Certbot stopped requiring that all possibly required ports are available when using the standalone plugin. It now only verifies that the ports are available when they are necessary.

Fixed

  • Certbot now verifies that our optional dependencies version matches what is required by Certbot.
  • Certnot now properly copies the ssl on; directives as necessary when performing domain validation in the Nginx plugin.
  • Fixed problem where symlinks were becoming files when they were packaged, causing errors during testing and OS packaging.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/26?closed=1

0.9.1 - 2016-10-06

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that was introduced in version 0.9.0 where the command line flag -q/--quiet wasn't respected in some cases.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/25?closed=1

0.9.0 - 2016-10-05

Added

  • Added an alpha version of the Nginx plugin. This plugin fully automates the process of obtaining and installing certificates with Nginx. Additionally, it is able to automatically configure security enhancements such as an HTTP to HTTPS redirect and OCSP stapling. To use this plugin, you must have the certbot-nginx package installed (which is installed automatically when using certbot-auto) and provide --nginx on the command line. This plugin is still in its early stages so we recommend you use it with some caution and make sure you have a backup of your Nginx configuration.
  • Added support for the DNS challenge in the acme library and DNS in Certbot's manual plugin. This allows you to create DNS records to prove to Let's Encrypt you control the requested domain name. To use this feature, include --manual --preferred-challenges dns on the command line.
  • Certbot now helps with enabling Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) on CentOS 6 when using certbot-auto. To use certbot-auto on CentOS 6, the EPEL repository has to be enabled. certbot-auto will now prompt users asking them if they would like the script to enable this for them automatically. This is done without prompting users when using letsencrypt-auto or if -n/--non-interactive/--noninteractive is included on the command line.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.9.0+is%3Aclosed

0.8.1 - 2016-06-14

Added

  • Certbot now preserves a certificate's common name when using renew.
  • Certbot now saves webroot values for renewal when they are entered interactively.
  • Certbot now gracefully reports that the Apache plugin isn't usable when Augeas is not installed.
  • Added experimental support for Mageia has been added to certbot-auto.

Fixed

  • Fixed problems with an invalid user-agent string on OS X.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.8.1+

0.8.0 - 2016-06-02

Added

  • Added the register subcommand which can be used to register an account with the Let's Encrypt CA.
  • You can now run certbot register --update-registration to change the e-mail address associated with your registration.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.8.0+

0.7.0 - 2016-05-27

Added

  • Added --must-staple to request certificates from Let's Encrypt with the OCSP must staple extension.
  • Certbot now automatically configures OSCP stapling for Apache.
  • Certbot now allows requesting certificates for domains found in the common name of a custom CSR.

Fixed

  • Fixed a number of miscellaneous bugs

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=milestone%3A0.7.0+is%3Aissue

0.6.0 - 2016-05-12

Added

  • Versioned the datetime dependency in setup.py.

Changed

  • Renamed the client from letsencrypt to certbot.

Fixed

  • Fixed a small json deserialization error.
  • Certbot now preserves domain order in generated CSRs.
  • Fixed some minor bugs.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20milestone%3A0.6.0%20is%3Aclosed%20

0.5.0 - 2016-04-05

Added

  • Added the ability to use the webroot plugin interactively.
  • Added the flags --pre-hook, --post-hook, and --renew-hook which can be used with the renew subcommand to register shell commands to run in response to renewal events. Pre-hook commands will be run before any certs are renewed, post-hook commands will be run after any certs are renewed, and renew-hook commands will be run after each cert is renewed. If no certs are due for renewal, no command is run.
  • Added a -q/--quiet flag which silences all output except errors.
  • Added an --allow-subset-of-domains flag which can be used with the renew command to prevent renewal failures for a subset of the requested domains from causing the client to exit.

Changed

  • Certbot now uses renewal configuration files. In /etc/letsencrypt/renewal by default, these files can be used to control what parameters are used when renewing a specific certificate.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues?q=milestone%3A0.5.0+is%3Aissue

0.4.2 - 2016-03-03

Fixed

  • Resolved problems encountered when compiling letsencrypt against the new OpenSSL release.
  • Fixed problems encountered when using letsencrypt renew with configuration files from the private beta.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.4.2

0.4.1 - 2016-02-29

Fixed

  • Fixed Apache parsing errors encountered with some configurations.
  • Fixed Werkzeug dependency problems encountered on some Red Hat systems.
  • Fixed bootstrapping failures when using letsencrypt-auto with --no-self-upgrade.
  • Fixed problems with parsing renewal config files from private beta.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues?q=is:issue+milestone:0.4.1

0.4.0 - 2016-02-10

Added

  • Added the verb/subcommand renew which can be used to renew your existing certificates as they approach expiration. Running letsencrypt renew will examine all existing certificate lineages and determine if any are less than 30 days from expiration. If so, the client will use the settings provided when you previously obtained the certificate to renew it. The subcommand finishes by printing a summary of which renewals were successful, failed, or not yet due.
  • Added a --dry-run flag to help with testing configuration without affecting production rate limits. Currently supported by the renew and certonly subcommands, providing --dry-run on the command line will obtain certificates from the staging server without saving the resulting certificates to disk.
  • Added major improvements to letsencrypt-auto. This script has been rewritten to include full support for Python 2.6, the ability for letsencrypt-auto to update itself, and improvements to the stability, security, and performance of the script.
  • Added support for Apache 2.2 to the Apache plugin.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.4.0

0.3.0 - 2016-01-27

Added

  • Added a non-interactive mode which can be enabled by including -n or --non-interactive on the command line. This can be used to guarantee the client will not prompt when run automatically using cron/systemd.
  • Added preparation for the new letsencrypt-auto script. Over the past couple months, we've been working on increasing the reliability and security of letsencrypt-auto. A number of changes landed in this release to prepare for the new version of this script.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.3.0

0.2.0 - 2016-01-14

Added

  • Added Apache plugin support for non-Debian based systems. Support has been added for modern Red Hat based systems such as Fedora 23, Red Hat 7, and CentOS 7 running Apache 2.4. In theory, this plugin should be able to be configured to run on any Unix-like OS running Apache 2.4.
  • Relaxed PyOpenSSL version requirements. This adds support for systems with PyOpenSSL versions 0.13 or 0.14.
  • Improved error messages from the client.

Fixed

  • Resolved issues with the Apache plugin enabling an HTTP to HTTPS redirect on some systems.

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.2.0

0.1.1 - 2015-12-15

Added

  • Added a check that avoids attempting to issue for unqualified domain names like "localhost".

Fixed

  • Fixed a confusing UI path that caused some users to repeatedly renew their certs while experimenting with the client, in some cases hitting issuance rate limits.
  • Fixed numerous Apache configuration parser problems
  • Fixed --webroot permission handling for non-root users

More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues?q=milestone%3A0.1.1