The Cert Renewed. Was It Actually Deployed?
At 47-day validity, the gap between 'issued' and 'deployed' is where most cert outages now happen. Six ways deployment fails after renewal succeeds.
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Retire Your Renewal Monitoring Cron Job
Every engineering team eventually writes a renewal monitoring script. Then it silently breaks. Eight specific ways your cron decays, and what to do instead.
Certificate Validity Is Shrinking. Your Renewal Process Has to Keep Up.
200-day max validity took effect in March 2026, 100-day in 2027, 47-day in 2029. What this breaks in manual processes and what automation actually requires.
The 47-Day Certificate Schedule: SC-081v3, DCV Reuse, and What to Automate
CA/Browser Forum ballot SC-081v3 cuts certificate validity to 47 days and domain-validation reuse to 10 days by 2029. The full schedule and what it does to your renewal and validation pipeline.
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