# Basic License showing wrong expiration date

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** license\
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237 "2020-08-17T12:57:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237/5 "2020-08-18T05:38:37Z")

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Yes Mark. This is the link for that topic for others reference

> [@Downgrading from Gold licence to basic license](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrading-from-gold-licence-to-basic-license/245202):
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> We have a cluster with ES 7.1 where we use gold licence. We have native authentication realm (order 0) and pki realm (order 1) as auth mechanisms. xpack.security.enabled: true in elasticsearch.yaml Now we have decided to downgrade our cluster to basic licence. I read here [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/update-license.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/update-license.html) that all we need to do is fire an update licence command on kibana to do this with 0 downtime. In this downgrade process my doubt is that …

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