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title: "1.16.1 — UTF-8-safe TLS lineage convergence"
description: "Repository vhosts with ordinary UTF-8 comments now deploy without losing an issued Certbot lineage, while malformed UTF-8 and Unicode-confusable server names remain fail-closed."
date: "2026-08-22"
tags: ["release"]
canonical: "https://django-mojo.sitesmojo.com/changelog/1-16-1/"
---

Repository vhosts with ordinary UTF-8 comments now deploy without losing an issued Certbot lineage, while malformed UTF-8 and Unicode-confusable server names remain fail-closed.

- Preserve valid UTF-8 repository vhost text while overlaying only the proven certificate and private-key paths.
- Keep certificate-path replacement character-safe when multibyte text appears before TLS directives.
- Reject malformed UTF-8 and non-ASCII semantic `server_name` values, including Unicode hostname confusables.
- Extend the TLS convergence harness for UTF-8 preservation, malformed input, confusable names, idempotence, metadata safety, and snapshot races.