acmed/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Fixed

• The default hooks were not properly updated during the 0.22.0 release, which causes the certificate renewal to fail.

[0.22.1] - 2023-12-20

Fixed

• The Cargo.lock file is now updated before a new version is released (GitHub bug #103).

[0.22.0] - 2023-12-20

Fixed

• ACMEd no longer crashes when the random_early_renew parameter is set to zero (GitHub bug #102).

Changed

• The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.70.
• Manual (and badly designed) threads have been replaced by async.
• Randomized early delay, for spacing out renewals when dealing with a lot of certificates.
• Replaced the template engine TinyTemplate with MiniJinja.
• The default period of time between the certificate renewal and its expiration date (renew_delay) has been changed from 3 weeks to 30 days.

[0.21.0] - 2022-12-19

Fixed

• The JWK representation of ECDSA keys now have their coordinates padded.

Changed

• The minimal required Rust version is now 1.60.

[0.20.0] - 2022-05-08

Added

• The --no-pid-file argument has been added to ACMEd and tacd.

Fixed

• An invalid reference in the command line arguments has been fixed.
• Some missing file path in log messages has been added.
• The calculation of the certificate's expiration delay does no longer break compilation on some systems.

[0.19.0] - 2022-04-17

Added

• The acmed@user.service systemd unit configuration has been added as an alternative to the acmed.service unit.

Changed

• The minimal required Rust version is now 1.54.

[0.18.0] - 2021-06-13

Added

• Add support for Ed25519 and Ed448 account keys and certificates.
• In addition to restart, the Polkit rule also allows the reload, try-restart, reload-or-restart and try-reload-or-restart verbs.

[0.17.0] - 2021-05-04

Added

• Allow the configuration of some default values at compile time using environment variables.

Changed

• The template engine has been changed in favor of TinyTemplate, which has a different syntax than the previous one.
• The default account directory now is /var/lib/acmed/accounts.
• The default certificates and private keys directory now is /var/lib/acmed/certs.
• The default for volatile runtime data now is /run.

[0.16.0] - 2020-11-11

Added

• The pkcs9_email_address, postal_address and postal_code subject attributes has been added.

Changed

• The friendly_name and pseudonym subject attributes has been removed.
• The street_address subject attribute has been renamed street.

[0.15.0] - 2020-11-03

Added

• The names of both the certificate file and the associated private key can now be configured.

Fixed

• Configuration files cannot be loaded more than one time, which prevents infinite recursion.

Changed

• Certificates are now allowed to share the same name if their respective key type is different.

[0.14.0] - 2020-10-27

Added

• Add proxy support through the HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY environment variables.
• Allow to specify a unique name for each certificate.

Changed

• The minimal required Rust version is 1.42.0.

[0.13.0] - 2020-10-10

Added

• In the configuration, root_certificates has been added to the global and endpoint sections as an array of strings representing the path to root certificate files.
• At compilation, it is now possible to statically link OpenSSL using the openssl_vendored feature.
• In the Makefile, it is now possible to specify which target triple to build for.

[0.12.0] - 2020-09-26

Added

• Some subject attributes can now be specified.
• Support for NIST P-521 certificates and account keys.

Fixed

• Support for Let's Encrypt non-standard account creation object.

[0.11.0] - 2020-09-19

Added

• The contacts account configuration field has been added.
• External account binding.

Changed

• The email account configuration field has been removed. In replacement, use the contacts field.
• Accounts now have their own hooks and environment.
• Accounts are now stored in a single binary file.

Fixed

• ACMEd can now build on platforms with a time_t not defined as an i64.
• The Makefile is now fully works on FreeBSD.

[0.10.0] - 2020-08-27

Added

• The account key type and signature algorithm can now be specified in the configuration using the key_type and signature_algorithm parameters.
• The delay to renew a certificate before its expiration date can be specified in the configuration using the renew_delay parameter at either the certificate, endpoint and global level.
• It is now possible to specify IP identifiers (RFC 8738) using the ip parameter instead of the dns one.
• The hook templates of type challenge-* have a new identifier_tls_alpn field which contains, if available, the identifier in a form that is suitable to the TLS ALPN challenge.
• Globing is now supported for configuration files inclusion.
• The CSR's digest algorithm can now be specified using the csr_digest parameter.

Changed

• In the certificate configuration, the domains field has been renamed identifiers.
• The algorithm certificate configuration field has been renamed key_type.
• The algorithm hook template variable has been renamed key_type.
• The domain hook template variable has been renamed identifier.
• The default hooks have been updated.

Fixed

• The Makefile now works on FreeBSD. It should also work on other BSD although it has not been tested.

[0.9.0] - 2020-08-01

Added

• System users and groups can now be specified by name in addition to uid/gid.

Changed

• The HTTP(S) part is now handled by attohttpc instead of reqwest.

Fixed

• In tacd, the --acme-ext-file parameter is now in conflict with acme-ext instead of itself.

[0.8.0] - 2020-06-12

Changed

• The HTTP(S) part is now handled by reqwest instead of http_req.

Fixed

• make install now work with the busybox toolchain.

[0.7.0] - 2020-03-12

Added

• Wildcard certificates are now supported. In the file name, the * is replaced by _.
• Internationalized domain names are now supported.

Changed

• The PID file is now always written whether or not ACMEd is running in the foreground. Previously, it was written only when running in the background.

Fixed

• In the directory, the externalAccountRequired field is now a boolean instead of a string.

[0.6.1] - 2019-09-13

Fixed

• A race condition when requesting multiple certificates on the same non-existent account has been fixed.
• The foregroung option has been renamed foreground.

[0.6.0] - 2019-06-05

Added

• Hooks now have the optional allow_failure field.
• In hooks, the stdin_str has been added in replacement of the previous stdin behavior.
• HTTPS request rate limits.

Changed

• Certificates are renewed in parallel.
• Hooks are now cleaned right after the current challenge has been validated instead of after the certificate's retrieval.
• In hooks, the stdin field now refers to the path of the file that should be written into the hook's standard input.
• The logging format has been re-written.

Fixed

• The http-01-echo hook now correctly sets the file's access rights

[0.5.0] - 2019-05-09

Added

• ACMEd now displays a warning when the server indicates an error in an order or an authorization.
• A configuration file can now include several other files.
• Hooks have access to environment variables.
• In the configuration, the global section, certificates and domains can define environment variables for the hooks.
• tacd is now able to listen on a unix socket.

[0.4.0] - 2019-05-08

Added

• Man pages.
• The project can now be built and installed using make.
• The post-operation hooks now have access to the is_success template variable.
• Challenge hooks now have the is_clean_hook template variable.
• An existing certificate will be renewed if more domains have been added in the configuration.

Changed

• Unknown configuration fields are no longer tolerated.

Removed

• In challenge hooks, the algorithm template variable has been removed.

Fixed

• In some cases, ACMEd was unable to parse a certificate's expiration date.

[0.3.0] - 2019-04-30

Added

• tacd, the TLS-ALPN-01 validation daemon.
• An account object has been added in the configuration.
• In the configuration, hooks now have a mandatory type variable.
• It is now possible to declare hooks to clean after the challenge validation hooks.
• The CLI --root-cert option has been added.
• Failure recovery: HTTPS requests rejected by the server that are recoverable, like the badNonce error, are now retried several times before being considered a hard failure.
• The TLS-ALPN-01 challenge is now supported. The proof is a string representation of the acmeIdentifier extension. The self-signed certificate itself has to be built by a hook.

Changed

• In the configuration, the email certificate field has been replaced by the account field which matches an account object.
• The format of the domain configuration variable has changed and now includes the challenge type.
• The token challenge hook variable has been renamed file_name.
• The challenge_hooks, post_operation_hooks, file_pre_create_hooks, file_post_create_hooks, file_pre_edit_hooks and file_post_edit_hooks certificate variables has been replaced by hooks.
• The logs has been purged from many useless debug and trace entries.

Removed

• The DER storage format has been removed.
• The challenge certificate variables has been removed.

[0.2.1] - 2019-03-30

Changed

• The bug that prevented from requesting more than two certificates has been fixed.

[0.2.0] - 2019-03-27

Added

• The kp_reuse flag allow to reuse a key pair instead of creating a new one at each renewal.
• It is now possible to define hook groups that can reference either hooks or other hook groups.
• Hooks can be defined when before and after a file is created or edited (file_pre_create_hooks, file_post_create_hooks, file_pre_edit_hooks and file_post_edit_hooks).
• It is now possible to send logs either to syslog or stderr using the --to-syslog and --to-stderr arguments.

Changed

• post_operation_hook has been renamed post_operation_hooks.
• By default, logs are now sent to syslog instead of stderr.
• The process is now daemonized by default. It is possible to still run it in the foreground using the --foregroung flag.