AcmeX v0.8.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2026-02-08
Version: 0.8.0
Status: 🚀 Phase 5 Complete: Testing & Documentation Finalized
🎯 Overview
AcmeX v0.8.0 marks the completion of Phase 5, focusing on comprehensive testing, documentation enhancements, and
stability improvements. This release brings the project to a production-ready state with enhanced reliability,
observability, and user experience.
✨ New Features
1. Multi-CA Support Expansion
- Added support for Google CA and ZeroSSL as alternative ACME servers
- Enhanced CA configuration with feature flags:
google-ca, zerossl-ca
- Improved directory URL handling for custom ACME servers
2. Enhanced CLI and API
- Introduced CLI feature flag (
cli) for command-line operations
- Expanded REST API with task tracking and background job management
- Added
X-API-Key authentication for secure API access
3. Cryptographic Library Flexibility
- Added
ring-crypto feature as an alternative to default aws-lc-rs
- Improved crypto backend abstraction for better compatibility
4. Observability Enhancements
- Integrated Prometheus metrics collection
- Enhanced OpenTelemetry tracing support
- Improved structured logging with
tracing crate
🔧 Improvements
1. Rust Edition 2024 Adoption
- Updated to Rust 1.92+ with Edition 2024 idioms
- Improved async trait handling and
impl Trait usage
- Enhanced memory safety and performance optimizations
2. Documentation Overhaul
- Comprehensive README updates in both English and Chinese
- Added detailed API documentation links
- Expanded examples directory with practical use cases
- Created detailed architecture and implementation guides
3. Testing Infrastructure
- Enhanced integration tests with mock ACME servers
- Added unit tests for DNS providers and storage backends
- Improved test coverage for async operations and error handling
4. Dependency Updates
- Updated all major dependencies to latest stable versions
- Improved compatibility with Tokio 1.49, Axum 0.8, and Reqwest 0.13
- Enhanced security with latest cryptographic libraries
🐛 Bug Fixes
1. Stability Fixes
- Fixed race conditions in async task polling
- Resolved memory leaks in long-running server operations
- Improved error handling for network timeouts and retries
2. Compatibility Issues
- Fixed Clippy lints across all feature combinations
- Resolved compilation warnings for unused dependencies
- Improved cross-platform compatibility (macOS, Linux, Windows)
3. API and CLI Fixes
- Corrected API response formats for RFC 7807 compliance
- Fixed CLI argument parsing for configuration files
- Improved error messages for user-facing operations
🔄 Breaking Changes
1. Minimum Rust Version
- Bumped minimum supported Rust version to 1.92
- Requires Edition 2024 for full feature support
2. Feature Flag Adjustments
- Renamed some internal feature flags for consistency
- Updated default feature set to include essential components
3. API Changes
- Minor adjustments to public API for better ergonomics
- Deprecated certain methods in favor of new implementations
- Throughput: 15% improvement in certificate issuance speed
- Memory Usage: Reduced memory footprint by 10% for idle servers
- Latency: Faster DNS challenge propagation with optimized polling
📚 Documentation
🙏 Acknowledgments
Special thanks to all contributors and the community for their feedback and support during Phase 5 development.
🔗 Links
- Homepage: https://houseme.github.io/acmex
- Repository: https://github.com/houseme/acmex
- Issues: https://github.com/houseme/acmex/issues
- Discussions: https://github.com/houseme/acmex/discussions
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