Apple has renewed its Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Intermediate Certificate, which is intended to help maintain stringent security for apps with particular Wallet and Safari features.
The security certificate is for developers of apps that issue passes for Wallet, send Safari push notifications or rely on Safari Extensions. However, it was previously set to expire in February 2016, and developers of such apps are required to turn to Apple’s website to download the renewed certificate.
After downloading the certificate, these developers then need to use it to not only update any servers intended for signing Wallet passes or Safari push packages, but also re-build their Safari Extensions. February 14, 2016 is the deadline by which they are required to complete all of these tasks.
End users running iOS and tvOS apps should not encounter any hiccups during this transitional process, according to Apple in a new notice on its Developer site. However, it has warned of some potential implications for Mac users.
The company has noted that users of OS X 10.11 or OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan might get an error message from an app that uses receipt validation, but restarting the Mac or updating to OS X 10.11.2 should rectify this issue. Apple has also explained that OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard users will, in January, get a software update that they must install in order to continue running apps using receipt validation.
The renewed security certificate, Apple has added, is set to expire on February 7, 2023.