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Apple continues to drop support for Transport Layer Security 1.0 and 1.1 in its operating systems.

The Sectigo Certification Authority is gradually phasing out the use of Locality information in favor of State and Province data in public SSL/TLS certificates (with OV and EV verification).

Firefox developers plan to block unsecured downloads on all HTTPS pages. Similar functionality was implemented in Google Chrome last year. It is also known as a mixed content download blocker.

The CA/B Forum team decided to clarify the rules for encoding domain names and IP addresses. Following discussion and voting, Ballot SC48 v2 was adopted by a majority vote.

If the changes are accepted, sites accessible via HTTPS will no longer have a lock icon in Chrome 93. At the same time, resources that operate over HTTP will continue to be marked as "Not secure".