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rl-2003: Update the release documentation
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It currently says that everything will be backward compatible between lego and simp-le certificates, but it’s not.
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immae committed Apr 17, 2020
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As well as this, the options <literal>security.acme.acceptTerms</literal> and either
<literal>security.acme.email</literal> or <literal>security.acme.certs.&lt;name&gt;.email</literal>
must be set in order to use the ACME module.
Certificates will be regenerated anew on the next renewal date. The credentials for simp-le are
preserved and thus it is possible to roll back to previous versions without breaking certificate
generation.
Certificates will be regenerated on activation, no account or certificate will be migrated from simp-le.
In particular private keys will not be preserved. However, the credentials for simp-le are preserved and
thus it is possible to roll back to previous versions without breaking certificate generation.
Note also that in contrary to simp-le a new private key is recreated at each renewal by default, which can
have consequences if you embed your public key in apps.
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