Google Chrome 66 stable release, certificates issued by Symantec Certification Authority before June 1, 2016 are invalid

The latest stable version of Google Chrome "66.0.3359.117" has been released. It was decided in 2017Phased invalidation of Symantec's certificateWill begin and certificates issued before June 1, 2016 will need to be replaced with new certificates.

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Browser development companies such as Google and Mozilla decided to invalidate the certificate problem as "certificate authority (CA) under the Symantec company issuing a certificate that does not conform to the industry standards and not accepting it as legitimate" as a certificate problem Things. However, because certificates issued by Symantec's Certification Authority accounted for more than 30% of the market share, invalidation was to be done in phases.

Google announces the invalidation schedule of Symantec certificate at Chrome following the sale of Symantec CA business - Google - GIGAZINE


Although only warnings were issued so far, Chrome 66 will invalidate certificates issued before 1 June 2016. In addition, on the Chrome 70 scheduled to be released on October 23, 2018, all certificates issued by CA under Symantec will be treated as "untrusted".

Besides this, Chrome 66 also includes "CSS Typed Object Model" which can simplify CSS code, new audio-related interface "AudioWorklet", introduction of asynchronous clipboard API, improvement of image rendering with Canvas element We are.

New in Chrome 66: CSS Types Model Object, Async Clipboard & amp; new Canvas contexts - YouTube