Last week, the default certificate authority for Discourse announced an incoming change for next year, you can read it in details here: [immagine] 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…

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.

[immagine] 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.

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

Our partners at Let’s Encrypt contacted us to share the following news: [immagine] 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 …

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.

Impatto delle modifiche di Let's Encrypt sugli utenti Discourse su vecchie versioni di Android

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Falco (Falco) 21 Dicembre 2020, 6:33pm 9

I nostri partner di Let’s Encrypt ci hanno contattato per condividere le seguenti notizie:

Sembra che i vecchi dispositivi Android potranno continuare a navigare sui siti che utilizzano Let’s Encrypt senza problemi

Argomento		Risposte	Visualizzazioni
DiscourseHub compatibility on older Android devices Feature	7	1220	Novembre 18, 2020
Android app can't see my discourse Product Support	21	2650	Aprile 19, 2019
Support for older Android versions Feature	3	944	Marzo 23, 2014
Connecting with Android app doesn't work Bug	7	996	Dicembre 17, 2017
Android app crashes if Chrome is not installed Product Support android-app	11	2738	Novembre 11, 2016

Impatto delle modifiche di Let's Encrypt sugli utenti Discourse su vecchie versioni di Android

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