New name
This is the first release of this program under a new name. Going forward we will call it "Windows ACME Simple", which can be shortened to "win-acme" or "WACS". The reason is that we want to avoid any confusion people might have about this programs relationship with the ISRG sponsored Let's Encrypt project.
To be clear, we are not an ISRG supported client, just an independent group of people who want to help people managing Microsoft Windows machines to secure the web.
Let's Encrypt literally wrote the book on the ACME protocol and is obviously the most popular service implementing it, but in fact everyone is free to run their own ACME server and we might see a lot more of them in the future. Therefore it also makes sense to drop "letsencrypt" from the name of this program.
New home
This program was originally created by @lone-coder (Bryan Livingston) who deserves a lot of credit for getting it out there. In the world of IT it's never a good idea to depend too much on a single person though, so the fact that a tool that people rely on in production was just available from someones personal GitHub account never felt comfortable.
We're now happy to have found a new home under the umbrella of the PKISharp organisation, which is group of people collaborating on .NET-based tools around ACME. This will ensure more continuity and make it easier to collaborate on new developments such as ACMEv2.
New features
- Installation plugins can no be loaded from external assemblies (#733)
- Add parameter to allow self-hosting validation to listen to another port (#742)
Enhancements
- Hide unavailable target plugins in interactive mode (#758)
- Hide unavailable validation methods in interactive mode (#760)
- For new installs, renewals are stored in the
ConfigurationPathinstead of the registry (#756) - Much-improved example script for Microsoft Exchange deployments (#702) - thanks @LBegnaud
- Store application settings in a separate file which is not in the .zip, making upgrades easier (#720)