In April 2025 the CA/Browser Forum voted 25 to 0 to shrink the maximum lifetime of public TLS certificates. Not by a little. The ballot is called SC-081v3 and this is the schedule it locked in: Effective Max validity Roughly Today 398 days 13 months March 2026 200 days 6.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/lukethomas_tw/your-tls-certificates-will-only-last-47-days-soon-most-teams-have-not-done-the-math-20ko)

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