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@desrosj desrosj commented Jan 16, 2025

This updates the bundled root certificates that ship with WordPress Core by syncing the latest upstream changes from Mozilla as of December 31, 2024.

This also removes several expired legacy certificates that were included for backwards compatibility.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62811


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Cybertrust Global Root has also expired in 2021-12-15

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desrosj commented Jan 16, 2025

Thanks @todeveni! Updated.

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Recommending that this is closed in favour of #8137.

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desrosj commented Jan 29, 2025

Recommending that this is closed in favour of #8137.

Works for me. My initial thinking was to separate the build process and the actual update of the certificates. But don't feel strongly about that at all.

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