Security News > 2023 > February > Google's big security cert log overhaul broke Android apps. Now it's hit undo

Google this week reversed an overhaul of one of its security-related file formats after the transition broke Android apps.

In November, 2021, Google announced changes to the format of its Chrome Certificate Transparency log list file and, in August, 2022, notified developers whose apps might be affected that it would stop publishing legacy log list files on October 17, 2022.

A certificate transparency log is an append-only public ledger of newly issued security certificates trusted for things like HTTPS encryption.

Google vacuums up these logs from certificate authorities, and publishes this consolidated record as the Chrome Certificate Transparency log.

When the deadline arrived on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, apps relying on the Chrome log and not expecting the new format broke.

Joel Oughton-Estruch, engineering manager for finance app maker TrueLayer, also sent out a plea for a Google rollback: "We missed this announcement and this change has caused SSL failures across all our Android Apps on end user devices."

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