# SSL certificate not updated
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ssl-certificate-not-updated/396561
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 19, 2026, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ssl-certificate-not-updated/396561 "2026-02-19T23:58:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ssl-certificate-not-updated/396561/1 "2026-02-19T23:58:15Z")
Damn, so after this last time:
> [@Using old ssl certificate instead of letsencrypt after update?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-old-ssl-certificate-instead-of-letsencrypt-after-update/384758):
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> After an update, Discourse is using what I think is a very old ssl certiciate I used to use long ago instead of a letsencrypt certificate. I believe I used StartCom long long ago, but long since switched to letsencrypt. My app.yml has: templates: - "templates/cron.template.yml" - "templates/postgres.template.yml" - "templates/redis.template.yml" - "templates/sshd.template.yml" - "templates/web.template.yml" - "templates/web.ssl.template.yml" - "templates/web.letsencryp…
I woke up this morning to my site being down because the certificate has expired.
I did a `./launcher rebuild app` and that renewed the certificate so at least my site is back up now, but why is the certificate not being renewed automatically?
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Rowe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Rowe)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ssl-certificate-not-updated/396561/2 "2026-02-20T01:10:25Z")
I feel like this popped up a couple months back, how up to date is your version?
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### Author:  [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 1:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ssl-certificate-not-updated/396561/3 "2026-02-20T01:12:34Z")
> [@Andrew\_Rowe](#):
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> I feel like this popped up a couple months back, how up to date is your version?
Since I rebuilt, it is definitely up to date now (and I checked and it is 2026.1.0).
It was not alerting me about necessary updates, so I’m not sure what it was before. Maybe it doesn’t alert me about needed updates any more?
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Rowe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Rowe)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 1:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ssl-certificate-not-updated/396561/4 "2026-02-20T01:18:14Z")
> [@peternlewis](#):
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> Maybe it doesn’t alert me about needed updates any more?
umm… I think there may have been a version naming change recently that maybe effected the alerts??? I’m guessing here
But I thought a month or two back there was a buggy that caused certs not to renew and it got fixed pretty quick
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### Author:  [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ssl-certificate-not-updated/396561/5 "2026-02-20T03:22:51Z")
OK, well, hopefully that was it, I’ve got a calendar alert for a few weeks before the next expiry so I’ll double check it (sadly, I had one for this expiry too but the alert was not assertive enough to get my attention!). Thanks.