Registered Community Licence Key Certificate Expired

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Describe the problem/error/question

Hello, is anyone else having issues with their “registered” Community free license key?
I’ve had mine activated for the past 6-8 months, but yesterday I noticed that the license somehow expired and I was reverted back to the Community Edition plan, with my folders no longer accessible.
When I try to reactivate it, I do receive the email containing the license key, and after submitting it under “Usage and Plan”, I get the notification: “Your Community Edition has been successfully activated.” However, nothing actually changes afterward.
From the rror logs it seems that the certificate for the licence SDK expired May 02. But when I request a new one it says that it have been issued today but still expired at May 02 2026 (see error below)
As displayed “Included features may change, but once unlocked, you’ll keep them forever.”

What is the error message (if any)?

2026-05-08T12:58:20.325Z | error | [license SDK] cert is invalid because it has expired: (autorenewalsEnabled: false, expiredAt: Sat May 02 2026 14:56:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time), issuedAt: Fri May 08 2026 08:31:19 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)) {"scopes":["license"],"file":"LicenseManager.js","function":"log"}

Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: 1.103.2
  • Self hosted
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Hi @Libfy Welcome! that expiredAt being before issuedAt is a license server side bug, license:clear won’t fix it since the new cert comes back already expired. shoot an email to help@n8n.io with your instance ID adn that exact log line, they need to reissue from their end. also double check your host clock isn’t skewed with date -u just to rule that out.

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hey @Libfy curious if u heard back from help@n8n.io on this — the cert-issued-after-its-expiry bug hit a handful of community-edition users early may, but i havent seen confirmation of whether n8n actually patched the license server or if folks are still having to wait for support to manually reissue. if u did get it resolved, mind sharing what fixed it? would help anyone else who hits the same loop.