Let's Encrypt Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident

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Let's Encrypt is stopping certificate issuance due to a potential incident, with scheduled database maintenance that may cause ACME client timeouts for up to 10 minutes.

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# Let's Encrypt Status Source: [https://letsencrypt.status.io/](https://letsencrypt.status.io/) ##### Support for Let's Encrypt services is community\-based and information on current status and outages can be found at: https://community\.letsencrypt\.org acme\-v02\.api\.letsencrypt\.org \(Production\) High Assurance Datacenter 1High Assurance Datacenter 2 acme\-staging\-v02\.api\.letsencrypt\.org \(Staging\) High Assurance Datacenter 1 portal\.letsencrypt\.org \(Production\) High Assurance Datacenter 1High Assurance Datacenter 2 portal\-staging\.letsencrypt\.org \(Staging\) High Assurance Datacenter 1 \*\.c\.lencr\.org \(Production\) Public Data Center stg\-\*\.c\.lencr\.org \(Staging\) Public Data Center Website Public Data Center log\.twig\.ct\.letsencrypt\.org Public Data Center log\.sycamore\.ct\.letsencrypt\.org Public Data Center log\.willow\.ct\.letsencrypt\.org Public Data Center ### Scheduled Maintenance Schedule May 8, 2026 17:17 \- 17:27 UTC Components acme\-v02\.api\.letsencrypt\.org \(Production\) Locations High Assurance Datacenter 1, High Assurance Datacenter 2 Description We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period\.

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