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“if you have to replace the certificate every 64 days or something, you're definitely going to want to automate that. You're not doing that by hand every 60 days or you're going to screw up frequently.”

2.5 Admins · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · October 2026

“if you have to replace the certificate every 64 days or something, you're definitely going to want to automate that. You're not doing that by hand every 60 days or you're going to screw up frequently.” — Allan Jude, 2.5 Admins

Context

The hosts were discussing Let's Encrypt cutting maximum certificate lifetimes from 90 to 64 days in February 2027. Allan notes the protocol already allows even shorter ones and says automation is no longer optional.

Transcript

2.5 Admins Around 07:20 into the episode
Allan Jude

…if you have to go and change because you lost your Acme account or whatever, then your site's going to be going through an outage until the DNS change propagates. So definitely don't jack it up too long, but there may be value in that actually being a day or two instead of only minutes or hours.

Joe Ressington

Well, something related that I saw was 64-day certificate lifetimes coming in February 2027 for Let's Encrypt.

Allan Jude

…I think they're currently limited to 270 days now. You can't actually get even a whole year, even though they tend to sell the certificates to you in years. You have to go get them reissued after a while. And I've started to see some of those providers offering support via the Acme protocol to keep getting reissued versions of certificates you've paid for via the ACME protocol. Because if you have to replace the certificate every 64 days or something, you're definitely going to want to automate that. You're not doing that by hand every 60 days or you're going to screw up frequently.

Jim Salter

For most people using Let's Encrypt, this change isn't something that you're really going to need to do anything to accommodate. If you're using CertBot with its standard installation and it's automatically installed cron jobs or systemd timers, you're all set. It's checking to see if there's a new…

Allan Jude

They also mentioned they are reducing the authorization reuse period from 30 days down to 10. And in 2028, it will shrink to just seven hours to comply with the new 2029 rules, reducing the maximum validation reuse period and to remove the need for CAA rechecking, where we have to repeat part of…

Joe Ressington

Ubuntu 2610 is dropping support for a bunch of file systems, including ZFS, for the boot partition if you're using secure boot.

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