Did you change the response of https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-acct recently? Seems like it doesn't include contact anymore. Am I right?

Correct. LE doesn't store contact information anymore. [image] Re: Support Ended for Expiration Notification Emails Site Feedback …

Yes, I think these kinds of changes should be announced sooner. We have a similar discussion here

Yes, they ideally should - this change seems innocuous enough but for clients that haven't encountered email-less ACME account registrations before it could still have an impact if you use the registration result and expect a value. The client I develop is currently seeing a few thousands failures…

It was announced on 2025-01-23 in Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails already. Everyone is advised to subscribe to the API Announcements section where it was posted.

Yes, they announced that they wouldn't be sending out expiration emails, but I don't know as that made it obvious that they would no longer be including the contact field at all in their ACME protocol account responses.

Well, that's true indeed. It would have been nice if Let's Encrypt would have announced that detail too, well in advance. I guess that after.. [image] Has the output of initialIp changed in the account directory? This change was so small (that field is not part of the ACME spec, and had never …

This also caused a problem with acme-tiny: Change in Let's encrypt response broke client if contact is set · Issue #299 · diafygi/acme-tiny · GitHub

[image] felixf: This also caused a problem with acme-tiny: Ironically it's because acme-tiny logs the contact response of the acme account creation, so their logging causes an exception, which is indeed unfortunate and difficult to predict

This change also impacts `Exception while executing function: Order` · Issue #841 · shibayan/keyvault-acmebot · GitHub

Did you change the response of new account?

Client dev

Nekit June 5, 2025, 8:08am 2

Correct. LE doesn't store contact information anymore.

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Did you change the response of new account?

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