Last week, the default certificate authority for Discourse announced an incoming change for next year, you can read it in details here: [image] Standing on Our Own Two Feet [Updated] Update, July 10, 2023 See our new blog post for details on the September 2024 expiration of the newer IS…

I’m assuming Google Chrome means it also impacts Discourse Hub, and anyone who installed the PWA would be silently broken?

Yes, it impacts Discourse Hub and any app that uses the OS certificate store. We could make Discourse Hub use a different certificate for Android version > 6 and < 7.1.1, but not something we have planned at the moment. PWAs use the Chrome engine by default, so they are also affected, unless insta…

It looks like we will move the minimum supported Discourse Android version up to 7.1.2 as of January 11, 2021. Android 7 was released in August 2016, over 4 years ago.

Going to be watching this one with interest. There are a number of <$100 tablets which are still selling with Android 6 and 7. I saw one project in March hand jobseekers hundreds of tablets running 7.1. In that case the obvious solution will just be to stop using Let’s Encrypt.

[image] Stephen: I saw one project in March hand jobseekers hundreds of tablets running 7.1 Well, hopefully they were running 7.1.2 – that seems likely enough if they were on 7.1.

I wonder if Cloudflare is a way around this? Websites using their caching report Cloudflare’s certificate, and not the origin’s.

Our partners at Let’s Encrypt contacted us to share the following news: [image] Extending Android Device Compatibility for Let's Encrypt Certificates Update, May 13, 2021 Please visit this post on our community forum for the latest information about chain changes as some information abo…

Note that Discourse Hub app will still require Android 7.1.2 or later, but this change by Let’s Encrypt means accessing a https Discourse site via the browser should be OK on older versions of Android, provided the user has an updated browser.

Impact of Let's Encrypt changes in Discourse users on old Android versions

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Falco (Falco) November 11, 2020, 1:38pm 8

Using any other certificate authority is a way around, Cloudflare being one of those.

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Impact of Let's Encrypt changes in Discourse users on old Android versions

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