# SSL error when checking addon updates

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**Created:** [May 1, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ssl-error-when-checking-addon-updates/60121 "2025-05-01T11:16:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ssl-error-when-checking-addon-updates/60121/9 "2025-05-04T01:22:01Z")

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> [@Anon\_0000](#):
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> **Edit:** 24.04 introduced this: [Use system certificate store by abdnh · Pull Request #3050 · ankitects/anki · GitHub](https://github.com/ankitects/anki/pull/3050). Maybe it broke something? May I ask you if that could be the case

That PR made Anki use system certificates, so yes, reverting that will probably solve @Headless’s issue, but will re-introduce the issues solved by the PR. The PR actually introduced a common issue for Windows users with fresh installations/missing updates and has been a source of a [lot of error reports](https://community.ankihub.net/t/trouble-logging-into-ankihub/196142) on the AnkiHub forums, but I’ve never seen this particular error before. I suspect something is wrong in the OP’s system certificates as you suggested.

SSL issues will probably be fixed when we work on this: [Consider using Truststore to expose system certificate stores · Issue #3793 · ankitects/anki · GitHub](https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3793)

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