Using certbot 4.0.0 on devuan (debian derivative). My established process for many certificates is all working fine and has been for some time. Certbot runs as a daily cron job to check for renewals: "certbot -q renew" I've recently changed one of my domains from the standard 90 day to be 'shortli…

[image] nickrickard: Using certbot 4.0.0 on devuan (debian derivative). I think the current release of certbot is 5.6.0, so updating may help.

Thanks. That changelog entry looks like the key one. I've upgraded to certbot 5.5.0 (from debian/devuan testing - I would prefer not to have a mixed system but this feels necessary) so I'll monitor how often it refreshes over the coming days.

The certbot team recommends installing through their snap package (or setting up a python environment through pip ) rather than using an OS's package manager to install it, since generally it's useful to update it more often than most OS package managers do so. There are certainly downsides to that t…

I checked the renewal conf file. I didn't have a renew_before_expiry type entry. But I see since the update (as part of it's first cron run) certbot has added: [acme_renewal_info] ari_retry_after = 2026-06-23T17:30:18 Which wasn't there before (under 4.0.0). So that gives me hope that this is the …

Certbot upgrade (4.0.0 to 5.5.0) seems to have fixed the issue. Thanks.

Certbot shortlived retrying too often triggering rate limit

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petercooperjr June 22, 2026, 2:08pm 3

I'll agree on updating certbot. 4.1 added several fixes to renew timing, and I think there have been more improvements since then.

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