Certbot skips renewals inside the renewal window
Certbot skipped renewal of a certificate inside its renewal window, and it renewed only after a manual run, leaving the site at risk.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
25 public reports · first reported 31 August 2026 · last reported 16 September 2026
What's going wrong
Users of Certbot, the free tool that obtains and renews Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, report that a certificate inside its renewal window was not renewed automatically.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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