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 * December 1st, 2017: Symantec to implement "Managed CA" proposal
-* April 17th, 2018: Dis-trust of all Symantec certificates issued before 2016-06-01 (in practice, to be implemented in Firefox 60 on May 1st)
+* January 2018 (Firefox 58): Notices in the Developer Console will warn about Symantec certificates issued before 2016-06-01, to encourage site owners to migrate their TLS certs.
-* October 23rd, 2018: Final dis-trust of Symantec roots (in practice, to be implemented either in Firefox 63 on October 16th or Firefox 64 on November 27th)
+* May 2018  (Firefox 60): Websites will show an untrusted connection error if they have a TLS cert issued before 2016-06-01 that chains up to a Symantec root.
+* October 2018 (Firefox 63): Removal/distrust of Symantec roots, with caveats described below.
-It is planned for Firefox 58 (January 16th, 2018) to also feature a console warning for Symantec certificates issued before 2016-06-01 to help sites notice they need to migrate.
+Note: Mozilla's planned release content and schedules are subject to change.
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