# Let’s Encrypt to Reduce Certificate Validity from 90 Days to 45 Days

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**Created:** [December 7, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-s-encrypt-to-reduce-certificate-validity-from-90-days-to-45-days/390615 "2025-12-07T05:19:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-s-encrypt-to-reduce-certificate-validity-from-90-days-to-45-days/390615/2 "2025-12-07T06:44:00Z")

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iirc all the let’s encrypt clients have some kind of automation to check for certificates expiring in the next n days and automatically renewing them. So by that logic there shouldn’t be any impact.

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