Support for apple's new certificate update

[BenKanouse]

First off, thank you for maintaining this awesome project—it's been incredibly helpful!

Apple recently announced an upcoming update to the "Certification Authority (CA) for Apple Push Notification service (APNs)" scheduled for October 17th. Here's the announcement for reference:
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09za8wzy

I wanted to ask whether this change will require any updates to the apnotic gem to ensure continued support for APNs messages. Additionally, are APNs messages sent through this project impacted by this update at all?

I appreciate any guidance you can provide on this!

[benubois]

Hi @BenKanouse,

That’s a good question. I’m actually not sure and their post is a bit light on details.

My interpretation is that this is an OS level thing. For example on Ubuntu you might need to add the linked certs to /usr/local/share/ca-certificates and run update-ca-certificates.

This isn’t an Apple thing, just what you would typically do to trust certificates that don’t ship with the OS.

This would change depending on the OS or service where your code runs.

If you have more time to look into this I could use the help. For example if any other APNS libraries are making changes or if anyone else is talking about this.

Thanks!

Ben

[benubois]

Looks like there’s plenty of time to test this change:

APNs will update the server certificates in sandbox on January 20, 2025, and in production on February 24, 2025.

I’ll do some testing after 1/20 to see if there’s anything Apnotic needs to do.