- Allow non-camelcase Apache VirtualHost names
- Allow more log messages to be silenced
- Fix 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
- Resolve a problem where Certbot would crash while parsing command line arguments in some cases.
- Fix 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
- Providing
--quiet
tocertbot-auto
now silences package manager output. - The UI has been improved in the standalone plugin. When using the 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
. - Removal of the optional
dnspython
dependency in ouracme
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
- We now save
--preferred-challenges
values for renewal. Previously these values were discarded causing a different challenge type to be used when renewing certs in some cases. - If Certbot receives a request with a
badNonce
error, we automatically retry the request. Since nonces from Let's Encrypt expire, this helps people performing the DNS challenge with themanual
plugin who may have to wait an extended period of time for their DNS changes to propagate.
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
- 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
- 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, seecertbot --help manual
. - 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 thecertonly
andrun
subcommands so a full list of domains in the certificate does not have to be provided. - The subcommand
certificates
for listing the certificates managed by Certbot and their properties. - A
delete
subcommand for removing certificates managed by Certbot from the configuration directory. - Support for requesting internationalized domain names (IDNs).
- Removal of 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. - 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 thecertbot 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. - Recategorized
-h/--help
output to improve documentation and discoverability. - Busybox support in certbot-auto.
- 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
- Adopt more conservative behavior about reporting a needed port as unavailable when using the standalone plugin.
- 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.
More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/27?closed=1
- Ensuring we properly copy
ssl on;
directives as necessary when performing domain validation in the Nginx plugin. - Verifying that our optional dependencies version matches what is required by Certbot.
- A fix for problems where symlinks were becoming files when they were packaged, causing errors during testing and OS packaging.
- Stop requiring that all possibly required ports are available when using the standalone plugin. Only verify the ports are available when you know they are necessary.
More details about these changes can be found on our GitHub repo: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/milestone/26?closed=1
- This version of Certbot simply fixes 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
- 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 usingcertbot-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. - Support for the
DNS
challenge in theacme
library as well asDNS
support in Certbot'smanual
plugin. This allows you to create DNS records to prove to Let's Encrypt you control the requested the domain name. To use this feature, include--manual --preferred-challenges dns
on the command line. - Help with enabling Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) on
CentOS 6 when using
certbot-auto
. To usecertbot-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 usingletsencrypt-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
- Preserving a certificate's common name when using
renew
- Save webroot values for renewal when they are entered interactively
- Problems with an invalid user-agent string on OS X
- Gracefully reporting the Apache plugin isn't usable when Augeas is not installed
- Experimental support for Mageia has been added to
certbot-auto
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+
- The main new feature in this release is the
register
subcommand which can be used to register an account with the Let's Encrypt CA. - Additionally, you can 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+
--must-staple
to request certificates from Let's Encrypt with the OCSP must staple extension- automatic configuration of OSCP stapling for Apache
- requesting certificates for domains found in the common name of a custom CSR
- a number of bug fixes
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
- Renamed the client from
letsencrypt
tocertbot
- Fixed a small json deserialization error
- Versioned the datetime dependency in setup.py
- Preserve domain order in generated CSRs
- Some minor bug fixes
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
- The ability to use the webroot plugin interactively.
- 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.
- Cleaner 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.
- A -q/--quiet flag which silences all output except errors.
- 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.
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
- Resolves problems encountered when compiling letsencrypt against the new OpenSSL release.
- A patch fixing problems of using letsencrypt renew with configuration files from private beta has been added.
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
- Fixes Apache parsing errors with some configurations
- Fixes Werkzeug dependency problems on some Red Hat systems
- Fixes bootstrapping failures when using letsencrypt-auto with --no-self-upgrade
- Fixes 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
- The new verb/subcommand
renew
can be used to renew your existing certificates as they approach expiration. Runningletsencrypt 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. - A
--dry-run
flag has been added to help with testing configuration without affecting production rate limits. Currently supported by therenew
andcertonly
subcommands, providing--dry-run
on the command line will obtain certificates from the staging server without saving the resulting certificates to disk. - Major improvements have been added 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.
- Support for Apache 2.2 has been added 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
- 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. - 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
- 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.
- Resolves issues with the Apache plugin enabling an HTTP to HTTPS redirect on some systems.
- Improved error messages from the client.
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
- Fix 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
- Fixes numerous Apache configuration parser fixes
- Avoids attempting to issue for unqualified domain names like "localhost"
- Fixes --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