Renew security.txt before it expires
Why it matters
The file expires within the next weeks, after which researchers may stop trusting it. Renewing now avoids a gap.
The fix
- Check that the Contact still reaches a person who reads it, then set Expires to a new date less than a year ahead.
- Put a reminder in your calendar a month before the new date.
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Expires: 2026-12-31T23:59:59Z Related
- Reported by the security.txt check
- Publish a security.txt file
- Serve security.txt from /.well-known/
- Serve security.txt over https
- Serve security.txt as text/plain with utf-8
- Add a Contact line to security.txt
- Fix the Contact value in security.txt
- Add an Expires line to security.txt
- Use an RFC 3339 date in the Expires line
- Renew the expired security.txt
- Shorten the security.txt Expires date
- Fix repeated or insecure fields in security.txt
- Make the Canonical line match where the file is served
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