Update Helm release cert-manager to v1.21.1 - #40

v1.21.1

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v1.21.0

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v1.20.3

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v1.20.2

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

v1.20.2 fixes invalid YAML generated in the Helm chart when both webhook.config
and webhook.volumes are defined, and bumps Go to 1.26.2 along with dependencies
to address reported vulnerabilities.

Changes by Kind

Bug or Regression

• Helm: Fix invalid YAML generated when both webhook.config and webhook.volumes are defined. (#​8665, @​cert-manager-bot)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump go dependencies with reported vulnerabilities (#​8704, @​erikgb)
• Bump go to 1.26.2 (#​8703, @​erikgb)

v1.20.1

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

v1.20.1 fixes an issue for OpenShift users that has to do with the finalizer RBAC, bumps gRPC to address a reported non-affecting vulnerability, and fixes a duplicate parentRef bug when both issuer config and annotations are present (Gateway API).

Bug or Regression

• Fixed duplicate parentRef bug when both issuer config and annotations are present. (#​8658, @​hjoshi123)
• Add missing issuer finalizer RBAC to the order controller to support owner references. This was preventing OpenShift users from being able to upgrade to v1.20.0. (#​8655, @​erikgb)
• Bump google.golang.org/grpc to fix vulnerability reported by scanners. This isn't a vulnerability that affects cert-manager, but we are bumping it because it is reported by scanners. (#​8657, @​erikgb)

v1.20.0

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

v1.20.0 adds alpha support for the new ListenerSet resource, adds support for Azure Private DNS; parentRefs are no longer required when using ACME with Gateway API, and OtherNames was promoted to Beta.

Changes by Kind

Feature

• Added a set of flags to permit setting NetworkPolicy across all deployed containers. Remove redundant global IP ranges from example policies. (#​8370, @​jcpunk)
• Added selectable fields to custom resource definitions for .spec.issuerRef.{group, kind, name} (#​8256, @​tareksha)
• Added support for specifying imagePullSecrets in the startupapicheck-job Helm template to enable pulling images from private registries. (#​8186, @​mathieu-clnk)
• Added 'extraContainers' helm chart value, allowing the deployment of arbitrary sidecar containers within the cert-manager operator pod. This can be used to support, for e.g., AWS IAM Roles Anywhere for Route53 DNS01 verification. (#​8355, @​dancmeyers)
• Added parentRef override annotations on the Certificate resource. (#​8518, @​hjoshi123)
• Added support for azure private zones for dns01 issuer. (#​8494, @​hjoshi123)
• Added support for configuring PEM decoding size limits, allowing operators to handle larger certificates and keys. (#​7642, @​robertlestak)
• Added support for unhealthyPodEvictionPolicy in PodDisruptionBudget (#​7728, @​jcpunk)
• For Venafi provider, read venafi.cert-manager.io/custom-fields annotation on Issuer/ClusterIssuer and use it as base with override/append capabilities on Certificate level. (#​8301, @​k0da)
• Improve error message when CA issuers are misconfigured to use a clashing secret name (#​8374, @​majiayu000)
• Introduce a new Ingress annotation acme.cert-manager.io/http01-ingress-ingressclassname to override http01.ingress.ingressClassName field in HTTP-01 challenge solvers. (#​8244, @​lunarwhite)
• Update global.nodeSelector to helm chart to perform a merge and allow for a single nodeSelector to be set across all services. (#​8195, @​StingRayZA)
• Vault issuers will now include the Vault server address as one of the default audiences on generated service account tokens. (#​8228, @​terinjokes)
• Added experimental XListenerSets feature gate (#​8394, @​hjoshi123)

Documentation

• Add GWAPI documentation to NOTES.TXT in helm chart (#​8353, @​jaxels10)

Bug or Regression

• Adds logs for cases when acme server returns us a fatal error in the order controller (#​8199, @​Peac36)
• Fixed an issue where kind or group in the issuerRef of a Certificate was omitted, upgrading to 1.19.x incorrectly caused the certificate to be renewed (#​8160, @​inteon)
• Changes to the Duration and RenewBefore annotations on ingress and gateway-api resources will now trigger certificate updates. (#​8232, @​eleanor-merry)
• Fix an issue where ACME challenge TXT records are not cleaned up when there are many resource records in CloudDNS. (#​8456, @​tkna)
• Fix unregulated retries with the DigitalOcean DNS-01 solver
  Add full detailed DNS-01 errors to the events attached to the Challenge, for easier debugging (#​8221, @​wallrj-cyberark)
• Fixed an infinite re-issuance loop that could occur when an issuer returns a certificate with a public key that doesn't match the CSR. The issuing controller now validates the certificate before storing it and fails with backoff on mismatch. (#​8403, @​calm329)
• Fixed an issue where HTTP-01 challenges failed when the Host header contains an IPv6 address. This means that users can now issue IP address certificates for IPv6 address subjects. (#​8424, @​SlashNephy)
• Fixed the HTTP-01 Gateway solver creating invalid HTTPRoutes by not setting spec.hostnames when the challenge DNSName is an IP address. (#​8443, @​alviss7)
• Revert API defaults for issuer reference kind and group introduced in 0.19.0 (#​8173, @​erikgb)
• Security (MODERATE): Fix a potential panic in the cert-manager controller when a DNS response in an unexpected order was cached. If an attacker was able to modify DNS responses (or if they controlled the DNS server) it was possible to cause denial of service for the cert-manager controller. (#​8469, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Update Go to v1.25.5 to fix CVE-2025-61727 and CVE-2025-61729 (#​8290, @​octo-sts[bot])
• When Prometheus monitoring is enabled, the metrics label is now set to the intended value of cert-manager. Previously, it was set depending on various factors (namespace cert-manager is installed in and/or Helm release name). (#​8162, @​LiquidPL)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Promoted the OtherNames feature to Beta and enabled it by default (#​8288, @​wallrj-cyberark)
• Promoting XListenerSets feature gate to ListenerSets (#​8501, @​hjoshi123)
• Rebranding of the Venafi Issuer to CyberArk (#​8215, @​iossifbenbassat123)
• Switched to SSA for challenge finalizer updates (#​8519, @​inteon)
• The default container user (UID) is now 65532 (previously 1000) and the default container group (GID) is now 65532 (previously 0) (#​8408, @​wallrj-cyberark)
• The feature-gate DefaultPrivateKeyRotationPolicyAlways moved from Beta to GA and can no longer be disabled. (#​8287, @​wallrj-cyberark)
• Update cert-manager's ACME client, forked from golang/x/crypto (#​8268, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Use the latest version of Kyverno (1.16.2) in the best-practice installation tests (#​8389, @​wallrj-cyberark)
• We stopped testing with Coutour due to it not supporting the new XListenerSet resource, and moved to kgateway. (#​8426, @​hjoshi123)

v1.19.6

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

This patch release fixes a security issue (GHSA-8rvj-mm4h-c258, HIGH) where the default cert-manager-edit aggregate ClusterRole granted namespace users permission to create ACME Challenge and Order resources directly. A user who could create a Challenge referencing a ClusterIssuer could supply attacker-controlled solver configuration while cert-manager loaded credentials from the ClusterIssuer's namespace, bypassing Issuer solver selectors (dnsZones, dnsNames, matchLabels). With the acme-dns provider specifically, this could disclose DNS credentials to an attacker-controlled endpoint.

This release also includes Go version bumps to address reported CVEs. All users should upgrade.

[!WARNING]
Potentially breaking change: The cert-manager-edit aggregate ClusterRole no longer grants create for challenges.acme.cert-manager.io or create, patch, update for orders.acme.cert-manager.io. These resources are internal to cert-manager's ACME workflow and are not intended to be created or modified directly by users. If you have tooling or workflows that create Challenge or Order resources directly (outside of the normal Certificate → CertificateRequest → Order → Challenge flow), you will need to grant those permissions explicitly.

Changes by Kind

Bug or Regression

• Security (HIGH): Remove Challenge create and Order create, patch, update verbs from the cert-manager-edit aggregate ClusterRole (GHSA-8rvj-mm4h-c258). (#​8941, @​wallrj-cyberark)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Update Go to v1.25.11 to fix CVE-2026-27145, CVE-2026-42504, and CVE-2026-42507 (#​8925, @​wallrj-cyberark)
• Upgrade Go to 1.25.10 to fix reported vulnerabilities, along with other dependency bumps (#​8788, @​SgtCoDFish)

v1.19.5

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

This is a simple patch release to fix some reported vulnerabilities. All users are recommended to upgrade.

Changes by Kind

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump go dependencies with reported vulnerabilities (#​8706, @​erikgb)
• Bump go to 1.25.8 to address several reported vulnerabilities (#​8628, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Bump go to 1.25.9 (#​8705, @​erikgb)

v1.19.4

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

v1.19.4 is a simple patch release to fix some reported vulnerabilities - notably CVE-2026-24051 and CVE-2025-68121. All users should upgrade.

Changes by Kind

Bug or Regression

• Bump go to address CVE-2025-68121 (#​8526, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Bump otel SDK to address GO-2026-4394 (#​8531, @​SgtCoDFish)

v1.19.3

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

This release contains three bug fixes, including a fix for the MODERATE severity DoS issue in GHSA-gx3x-vq4p-mhhv. All users should upgrade to the latest release.

Changes by Kind

Bug or Regression

• Fixed an infinite re-issuance loop that could occur when an issuer returns a certificate with a public key that doesn't match the CSR. The issuing controller now validates the certificate before storing it and fails with backoff on mismatch. (#​8415, @​cert-manager-bot)
• Fixed an issue where HTTP-01 challenges failed when the Host header contained an IPv6 address. This means that users can now issue IP address certificates for IPv6 address subjects. (#​8436, @​cert-manager-bot)
• Security (MODERATE): Fix a potential panic in the cert-manager controller when a DNS response in an unexpected order was cached. If an attacker was able to modify DNS responses (or if they controlled the DNS server) it was possible to cause denial of service for the cert-manager controller. (#​8468, @​SgtCoDFish)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump go to 1.25.6 (#​8459, @​SgtCoDFish)

v1.19.2

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

We updated Go to fix some vulnerabilities in the standard library.

📖 Read the full 1.19 release notes on the cert-manager.io website before upgrading.

Changes since v1.19.1

Bug or Regression

• Address false positive vulnerabilities CVE-2025-47914 and CVE-2025-58181 which were reported by Trivy. (#​8283, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Update Go to v1.25.5 to fix CVE-2025-61727 and CVE-2025-61729 (#​8294, @​wallrj-cyberark)
• Update global.nodeSelector to helm chart to perform a merge and allow for a single nodeSelector to be set across all services. (#​8233, @​cert-manager-bot)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Update cert-manager's ACME client, forked from golang/x/crypto (#​8270, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Updated Debian 12 distroless base images (#​8326, @​wallrj-cyberark)

v1.19.1

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

We reverted the CRD-based API defaults for Certificate.Spec.IssuerRef and CertificateRequest.Spec.IssuerRef after they were found to cause unexpected certificate renewals after upgrading to 1.19.0. We will try re-introducing these API defaults in cert-manager 1.20.
We fixed a bug that caused certificates to be re-issued unexpectedly if the issuerRef kind or group was changed to one of the "runtime" default values.
We upgraded Go to 1.25.3 to address the following security vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-61724, CVE-2025-58187, CVE-2025-47912, CVE-2025-58183, CVE-2025-61723, CVE-2025-58186, CVE-2025-58185, CVE-2025-58188, and CVE-2025-61725.

📖 Read the full 1.19 release notes on the cert-manager.io website before upgrading.

Changes since v1.19.0:

Bug or Regression

• BUGFIX: in case kind or group in the issuerRef of a Certificate was omitted, upgrading to 1.19.x incorrectly caused the certificate to be renewed (#​8175, @​cert-manager-bot)
• Bump Go to 1.25.3 to fix a backwards incompatible change to the validation of DNS names in X.509 SAN fields which prevented the use of DNS names with a trailing dot (#​8177, @​wallrj-cyberark)
• Revert API defaults for issuer reference kind and group introduced in 0.19.0 (#​8178, @​cert-manager-bot)

v1.19.0

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

⚠️ Known issues: The following known issues are fixed in v1.19.1:

• Unexpected certificate renewal after upgrading to 1.19.0

This release focuses on expanding platform compatibility, improving deployment flexibility, enhancing observability, and addressing key reliability issues.

📖 Read the full release notes at cert-manager.io: https://cert-manager.io/docs/releases/release-notes/release-notes-1.19

Changes since v1.18.0:

Feature

• Add IPv6 rules to the default network policy (#​7726, @​jcpunk)
• Add global.nodeSelector to helm chart to allow for a single nodeSelector to be set across all services. (#​7818, @​StingRayZA)
• Add a feature gate to default to Ingress pathType Exact in ACME HTTP01 Ingress challenge solvers. (#​7795, @​sspreitzer)
• Add generated applyconfigurations allowing clients to make type-safe server-side apply requests for cert-manager resources. (#​7866, @​erikgb)
• Added API defaults to issuer references group (cert-manager.io) and kind (Issuer). (#​7414, @​erikgb)
• Added certmanager_certificate_challenge_status Prometheus metric. (#​7736, @​hjoshi123)
• Added protocol field for rfc2136 DNS01 provider (#​7881, @​hjoshi123)
• Added experimental field hostUsers flag to all pods. Not set by default. (#​7973, @​hjoshi123)
• Support configurable resource requests and limits for ACME HTTP01 solver pods through ClusterIssuer and Issuer specifications, allowing granular resource management that overrides global --acme-http01-solver-resource-* settings. (#​7972, @​lunarwhite)
• The CAInjectorMerging feature has been promoted to BETA and is now enabled by default (#​8017, @​ThatsMrTalbot)
• The controller, webhook and ca-injector now log their version and git commit on startup for easier debugging and support. (#​8072, @​prasad89)
• Updated certificate metrics to the collector approach. (#​7856, @​hjoshi123)

Bug or Regression

• ACME: Increased challenge authorization timeout to 2 minutes to fix error waiting for authorization (#​7796, @​hjoshi123)
• BUGFIX: permitted URI domains were incorrectly used to set the excluded URI domains in the CSR's name constraints (#​7816, @​kinolaev)
• Enforced ACME HTTP-01 solver validation to properly reject configurations when multiple ingress options (class, ingressClassName, name) are specified simultaneously (#​8021, @​lunarwhite)
• Increase maximum sizes of PEM certificates and chains which can be parsed in cert-manager, to handle leaf certificates with large numbers of DNS names or other identities (#​7961, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Reverted adding the global.rbac.disableHTTPChallengesRole Helm option. (#​7836, @​inteon)
• This change removes the path label of core ACME client metrics and will require users to update their monitoring dashboards and alerting rules if using those metrics. (#​8109, @​mladen-rusev-cyberark)
• Use the latest version of ingress-nginx in E2E tests to ensure compatibility (#​7792, @​wallrj)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Helm: Fix naming template of tokenrequest RoleBinding resource to improve consistency (#​7761, @​lunarwhite)
• Improve error messages when certificates, CRLs or private keys fail admission due to malformed or missing PEM data (#​7928, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Major upgrade of Akamai SDK. NOTE: The new version has not been fully tested end-to-end due to the lack of cloud infrastructure. (#​8003, @​hjoshi123)
• Update kind images to include the Kubernetes 1.33 node image (#​7786, @​wallrj)
• Use maps.Copy for cleaner map handling (#​8092, @​quantpoet)
• Vault: Migrate Vault E2E add-on tests from deprecated vault-client-go to the new vault/api client. (#​8059, @​armagankaratosun)

v1.18.6

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

v1.18.6 is a simple patch release to fix some reported vulnerabilities, most notably CVE-2025-68121.

NB: We didn't attempt to patch CVE-2026-24051 but that vulnerability affects macOS only, so cert-manager will be unaffected.

Changes by Kind

Bug or Regression

• Bump Go to address CVE-2025-68121 (#​8525, @​SgtCoDFish)

v1.18.5

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

This release contains three bug fixes, including a fix for the MODERATE severity DoS issue in GHSA-gx3x-vq4p-mhhv. All users should upgrade to the latest release.

Changes by Kind

Bug or Regression

• Fixed an infinite re-issuance loop that could occur when an issuer returns a certificate with a public key that doesn't match the CSR. The issuing controller now validates the certificate before storing it and fails with backoff on mismatch. (#​8414, @​cert-manager-bot)
• Fixed an issue where HTTP-01 challenges failed when the Host header contains an IPv6 address. This means that users can now issue IP address certificates for IPv6 address subjects. (#​8437, @​cert-manager-bot)
• Security (MODERATE): Fix a potential panic in the cert-manager controller when a DNS response in an unexpected order was cached. If an attacker was able to modify DNS responses (or if they controlled the DNS server) it was possible to cause denial of service for the cert-manager controller. (#​8467, @​SgtCoDFish)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump go to 1.24.12 (#​8460, @​SgtCoDFish)

v1.18.4

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

We updated Go to fix some vulnerabilities in the standard library.

📖 Read the full 1.18 release notes on the cert-manager.io website before upgrading.

Changes since v1.18.3

Bug or Regression

• Address false positive vulnerabilities CVE-2025-47914 and CVE-2025-58181 which were reported by Trivy. (#​8282, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Update Go to v1.24.11 to fix CVE-2025-61727 and CVE-2025-61729 (#​8295, @​wallrj-cyberark)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Update cert-manager's ACME client, forked from golang/x/crypto (#​8271, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Updated Debian 12 distroless base images (#​8328, @​wallrj-cyberark)

v1.18.3

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

We fixed a bug which caused certificates to be re-issued unexpectedly, if the issuerRef kind or group was changed to one of the "runtime" default values. We increased the size limit when parsing PEM certificate chains to handle leaf certificates with large numbers of DNS named or other identities. We upgraded Go to 1.24.9 to fix various non-critical security vulnerabilities.

📖 Read the full 1.18 release notes on the cert-manager.io website before upgrading.

Changes since v1.18.2:

Bug or Regression

• BUGFIX: in case kind or group in the issuerRef of a Certificate was omitted, upgrading to 1.19.x incorrectly caused the certificate to be renewed (#​8174, @​cert-manager-bot)
• Bump Go to 1.24.9. Fixes the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-61724, CVE-2025-58187, CVE-2025-47912, CVE-2025-58183, CVE-2025-61723, CVE-2025-58186, CVE-2025-58185, CVE-2025-58188, CVE-2025-61725 (#​8176, @​wallrj-cyberark)
• Increase maximum sizes of PEM certificates and chains which can be parsed in cert-manager, to handle leaf certificates with large numbers of DNS names or other identities (#​7966, @​cert-manager-bot)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Improve error messages when certificates, CRLs or private keys fail admission due to malformed or missing PEM data (#​7964, @​cert-manager-bot)
• Upgrades Go to v1.24.6 (#​7974, @​SgtCoDFish)

v1.18.2

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

We fixed a bug in the CSR's name constraints construction (only applies if you have enabled the NameConstraints feature gate).
We dropped the new global.rbac.disableHTTPChallengesRole Helm option due to a bug we found, this feature will be released in v1.19 instead.

Changes since v1.18.1:

Bug or Regression

• BUGFIX: permitted URI domains were incorrectly used to set the excluded URI domains in the CSR's name constraints (#​7833, @​cert-manager-bot)
• Reverted adding the global.rbac.disableHTTPChallengesRole Helm option. (#​7837, @​cert-manager-bot)

v1.18.1

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

We have added a new feature gate ACMEHTTP01IngressPathTypeExact, to allow ingress-nginx users to turn off the new default Ingress PathType: Exact behavior, in ACME HTTP01 Ingress challenge solvers.
This change fixes the following issue: #​7791

We have increased the ACME challenge authorization timeout to two minutes, which we hope will fix a timeout error (error waiting for authorization), which has been reported by multiple users, since the release of cert-manager v1.16.0.
This change should fix the following issues: #​7337, #​7444, and #​7685.

ℹ️ Be sure to review all new features and changes below, and read the full release notes carefully before upgrading.

Changes since v1.18.0:

Feature

• Added a new feature gate ACMEHTTP01IngressPathTypeExact, to allow ingress-nginx users to turn off the new default Ingress PathType: Exact behavior, in ACME HTTP01 Ingress challenge solvers. (#7810, @​sspreitzer)

Bug or Regression

• ACME: Increased challenge authorization timeout to 2 minutes to fix error waiting for authorization. (#7801, @​hjoshi123)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Use the latest version of ingress-nginx in E2E tests to ensure compatibility (#7807, @​wallrj)

v1.18.0

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

cert-manager 1.18 introduces several new features and breaking changes. Highlights include support for ACME certificate profiles, a new default for Certificate.Spec.PrivateKey.RotationPolicy now set to Always (breaking change), and the default Certificate.Spec.RevisionHistoryLimit now set to 1 (potentially breaking).

ℹ️ Be sure to review all new features and changes below, and read the full release notes carefully before upgrading.

Known Issues

• ACME HTTP01 challenge paths are rejected by the ingress-nginx validating webhook (#​7791)

Changes since v1.17.2:

Feature

• Add config to the Vault issuer to allow the server-name to be specified when validating the certificates the Vault server presents. (#​7663, @​ThatsMrTalbot)
• Added app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: cert-manager label to the created Let's Encrypt account keys (#​7577, @​terinjokes)
• Added certificate issuance and expiration time metrics (certmanager_certificate_not_before_timestamp_seconds, certmanager_certificate_not_after_timestamp_seconds). (#​7612, @​solidDoWant)
• Added ingress-shim option: --extra-certificate-annotations, which sets a list of annotation keys to be copied from Ingress-like to resulting Certificate object (#​7083, @​k0da)
• Added the iss short name for the cert-manager Issuer resource. (#​7373, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Added the ciss short name for the cert-manager ClusterIssuer resource (#​7373, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Adds the global.rbac.disableHTTPChallengesRole helm value to disable HTTP-01 ACME challenges. This allows cert-manager to drop its permission to create pods, improving security when HTTP-01 challenges are not required. (#​7666, @​ali-hamza-noor)
• Allow customizing signature algorithm (#​7591, @​tareksha)
• Cache the full DNS response and handle TTL expiration in FindZoneByFqdn (#​7596, @​ThatsIvan)
• Cert-manager now uses a local fork of the golang.org/x/crypto/acme package (#​7752, @​wallrj)
• Add support for ACME profiles extension. (#​7777, @​wallrj)
• Promote the UseDomainQualifiedFinalizer feature to GA. (#​7735, @​jsoref)
• Switched service/servicemon definitions to use port names instead of numbers. (#​7727, @​jcpunk)
• The default value of Certificate.Spec.PrivateKey.RotationPolicy changed from Never to Always. (#​7723, @​wallrj)
• Potentially breaking: Set the default revisionHistoryLimit to 1 for the CertificateRequest revisions (#​7758, @​ali-hamza-noor)

Documentation

• Fix some comments (#​7620, @​teslaedison)

Bug or Regression

• Bump go-jose dependency to address CVE-2025-27144. (#​7606, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 to patch CVE-2025-22868. (#​7638, @​NicholasBlaskey)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto to patch GHSA-hcg3-q754-cr77. (#​7638, @​NicholasBlaskey)
• Bump github.com/golang-jwt/jwt to patch GHSA-mh63-6h87-95cp. (#​7638, @​NicholasBlaskey)
• Change of the Kubernetes Ingress pathType from ImplementationSpecific to Exact for a reliable handling of ingress controllers and enhanced security. (#​7767, @​sspreitzer)
• Fix AWS Route53 error detection for not-found errors during deletion of DNS records. (#​7690, @​wallrj)
• Fix behavior when running with --namespace=<namespace>: limit the scope of cert-manager to a single namespace and disable cluster-scoped controllers. (#​7678, @​tsaarni)
• Fix handling of certificates with IP addresses in the commonName field; IP addresses are no longer added to the DNS subjectAlternativeName list and are instead added to the ipAddresses field as expected. (#​7081, @​johnjcool)
• Fix issuing of certificates via DNS01 challenges on Cloudflare after a breaking change to the Cloudflare API (#​7549, @​LukeCarrier)
• Fixed the certmanager_certificate_renewal_timestamp_seconds metric help text indicating that the metric is relative to expiration time, rather than Unix epoch time. (#​7609, @​solidDoWant)
• Fixing the service account template to incorporate boolean values for the annotations. (#​7698, @​ali-hamza-noor)
• Quote nodeSelector values in Helm Chart (#​7579, @​tobiasbp)
• Skip Gateway TLS listeners in Passthrough mode. (#​6986, @​vehagn)
• Upgrade golang.org/x/net fixing CVE-2025-22870. (#​7619, @​dependabot[bot])

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• ACME E2E Tests: Upgraded Pebble to v2.7.0 and modified the ACME tests to match latest Pebble behaviour. (#​7771, @​wallrj)
• Patch the third_party/forked/acme package with support for the ACME profiles extension. (#​7776, @​wallrj)
• Promote the AdditionalCertificateOutputFormats feature to GA, making additional formats always enabled. (#​7744, @​erikgb)
• Remove deprecated feature gate ValidateCAA. Setting this feature gate is now a no-op which does nothing but print a warning log line (#​7553, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Update kind images to include the Kubernetes 1.33 node image (#​7787, @​cert-manager-bot)
• Upgrade Go to v1.24.4 (#​7785, @​wallrj)
• Use slices.Contains to simplify code (#​7753, @​cuinix)

v1.17.4

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

We fixed a bug in the CSR's name constraints construction (only applies if you have enabled the NameConstraints feature gate).

Changes since v1.17.3:

Bug or Regression

• BUGFIX: permitted URI domains were incorrectly used to set the excluded URI domains in the CSR's name constraints (#​7832, @​cert-manager-bot)

v1.17.3

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

This patch release addresses several vulnerabilities reported by the Trivy security scanner. It is built with the latest version of Go 1.23.

We have increased the ACME challenge authorization timeout to two minutes, which we hope will fix a timeout error (error waiting for authorization), which has been reported by multiple users, in: #​7337, #​7444, and #​7685.

ℹ️ Be sure to review all new features and changes below, and read the full release notes carefully before upgrading.

Changes since v1.17.2:

Bug or Regression

• Bump Go to 1.23.10 to fix GO-2025-3749, GO-2025-3750, and GO-2025-3751 (#​7799, @​wallrj)
• ACME: Increased challenge authorization timeout to 2 minutes to fix error waiting for authorization (#​7798, @​hjoshi123)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Use the latest version of ingress-nginx in E2E tests to ensure compatibility (#​7808, @​wallrj)

v1.17.2

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

This patch release addresses several vulnerabilities reported by the Trivy security scanner. It is built with the latest version of Go 1.23 and includes various dependency updates.

📖 Read the full cert-manager 1.17 release notes, before installing or upgrading.

Changes since v1.17.1

Bug or Regression

• Bump Go to v1.23.8 to fix CVE-2025-22871 (#​7701, @wallrj)
• Bump go-jose dependency to address CVE-2025-27144 (#​7603, @SgtCoDFish)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to address CVE-2025-22870 reported by Trivy (#​7622, @SgtCoDFish)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to fix CVE-2025-22872 (#​7703, @wallrj)
• Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 to patch CVE-2025-22868 (#​7692, @lentzi90)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto to patch GHSA-hcg3-q754-cr77 (#​7692, @lentzi90)
• Bump github.com/golang-jwt/jwt to patch GHSA-mh63-6h87-95cp (#​7692, @lentzi90)

v1.17.1

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cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

This release is primarily intended to address a breaking change in Cloudflare's API which impacted ACME DNS-01 challenges using Cloudflare.

Many thanks to the community members who reported this issue!

Changes by Kind

Bug or Regression

• ❗ Fix issuing of certificates via DNS01 challenges on Cloudflare after a breaking change to the Cloudflare API (#​7565, @​LukeCarrier)
• Bump go to 1.23.6 to address CVE-2025-22866 reported by Trivy (#​7563, @​SgtCoDFish

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