New certificate smartscreen alert

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.5.13

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.4.12 (prod, win32)

Appareil : win32, 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz
ID client : 24fea801bcc3457c8367ad8095a6ffaa
Version de Synchro : 3
Version du profil : 48
Trousseau supporté : Non
ID d'instance alternatif : -

Révision : e9a9f68

Admonition markdown extension: 1.1.0
Favorites: 1.3.2
Quick Links: 1.3.2

What issue do you have?

My current Joplin version is 3.4.12
When I try to upgrade to 3.5.13, opening joplinportable.exe will result in a smartscreen warning.
I noticed that you changed the signing certificate between versions 3.4.* and versions 3.5.* so I guess this is the problem but I would like to understand why this would cause a smartscreen warning before updating.

Thanks for your answer !

@naamah welcome to the forum.

It seems that even though a code-signing certificate has been obtained, Defender will still create this warning if Microsoft is not aware of many people actually installing the software it was used to sign. It seems that over time as they watch more and more users install the software the warning disappears.

The below post from last month is about this issue. See this comment from the project owner:

Also:

Thank you very much for your answer !
It actually explains it all.
It has been a while though since the new certificate has been issued and still, windows won’t trust it :sweat_smile: