Boulder's workflow to update the PSL runs on the 1st of the month (and then you will have to wait potentially up to 2 weeks for it to make it to production), so if you want it sooner than that, it might be worth filing an issue asking for it to be updater sooner on the project repository: Issues · letsencrypt/boulder · GitHub
@mcpherrinm Great to see swift manual action, thanks! Quick question tho: if I recall correctly, previously it was quite common for Boulder to pin the @weppos PSL Go library by date/commit instead of tags? As the PSL gets updated very frequently, I can imagine @weppos doesn't tag that often.
That would, of course, hinder keeping the dependency up to date using Dependabot. The last PSL update was done using Dependabot; is that also the reason why the "Update PSL" action was manually disabled, as Dependabot would be able to update the PSL when a release was made?
We did deliberately disable that workflow because we had to remove the Github PAT that it relied on (we disabled legacy PATs in our org). We're going to look at a new mechanism to keep it up to date, but in the meantime we're going to rely on dependabot and tagged PSL releases, or manually bumping the version.
Based on the usual update schedule, I would expect the PSL update to be rolled out to production today between 19-23 UTC. Staging is already running on a newer PSL version. However, there's always something that can get in the way, so don't take this as a promise.
Since this general topic comes up a bit, can I suggest the following be built into this workflow?
Generate a README-PublicSuffixList.md file on https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder that just states:
The currently used version of the PSL is ____
Then,
Add a "Supported Domains" page to the docs https://letsencrypt.org/docs/supported-domains that appears under the "Subscriber Information" on /docs, and basically says:
As described in /rate-limits, we calculate rate limits based on domains in the Public Suffix List
New TLDs must be added to the Public Suffix List before we can issue certificates to registered domains.
We typically only upgrade to the latest PSL once per month.
We typically deploy to staging within days of upgrading the PSL
We typically deploy to production within weeks of upgrading the PSL
You can see the current version of the PSL and last update here: [link to README-PSL]
I suggest a new README, because the line numbers of the PSL import may change so linking to the lines isn't reliable.
I think that just having it in a file in the repo may confuse people if it doesn't also include information about how to check which version is deployed in which environment. I almost wonder if the PSL version should be accessible directly through an endpoint somehow, either through /build or something like it, or maybe something in the meta section of the /directory?
Maybe I'm very pessimistic now (at least sleap deprived), but while I think both ideas above me are GREAT (I do like good quality documentation covering all basis), I do have a "but": is anybody actually going to read that before they open a thread on this Community?
Maybe not, but it may be nice if the community had an authoritative place to direct them rather than relying on @Nummer378's separate boulder-build-monitoring and digging into which commits were done when and such.