Vault 1.14.0 release notes
GA date: June 21, 2023
Release notes provide an at-a-glance summary of key updates to new versions of Vault. For a comprehensive list of product updates, improvements, and bug fixes refer to the changelog included with the Vault code on GitHub.
We encourage you to upgrade to the latest release of Vault to take advantage of continuing improvements, critical fixes, and new features.
Known issues and breaking changes
| Version | Issue |
|---|---|
| 1.14.0+ | Users limited by control groups can only access issuer detail from PKI overview page |
| All | API calls to update-primary may lead to data loss |
Vault companion updates
Companion updates are Vault updates that live outside the main Vault binary.
| Release | Update | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes | GA | Directly connect Vault secrets into Pods as native Kubernetes Secrets without modifying your application code. Learn more: Vault Secrets Operator |
| Terraform | GA | Use LDAP authentication from the unified LDAP engine to Terraform Vault Provider. Learn more: LDAP Secrets Engine |
| ENHANCED | Support for additional PKI issuers and keys endpoints. Learn more: PKI Secrets Engine |
Core updates
Follow the learn more links for more information, or browse the list of Vault tutorials updated to highlight changes for the most recent GA release.
| Release | Update | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) | GA | Use ACME to automate certificate lifecycle management for private PKI needs with standard ACME clients like Certbot and k8s cert-manager. Request certificates from a Vault server without needing to know Vault APIs or authentication mechanisms. Learn more:Â PKI Secrets Engine API: ACME |
| GA | Use the improved PKI web UI to manage your PKI instance with intuitive configuration and reasonable defaults for workflows, metadata, issuer info, mount and tidy configuration, cross signing, multi-issuers etc.and includes. Learn more:Â PKI Secrets Engine | |
| Security patches | ENHANCED | Various security improvements to remediate low severity and informational findings from a 3rd party security audit. Learn more: Vault security model |
| Vault Agent | BETA | Fetch secrets directly into your application as environment variables. Learn more: Process Supervisor Mode |
| GA | Use a new subcommand and daemon, Vault Proxy, to access the proxy functionality of Vault Agent. Vault Proxy will handle Vault Agent proxy functionality going forward to simplify use case decisions for users. Learn more: Vault Proxy | |
| Plugin support | GA | Capture plugin metadata in the Vault audit log. Learn more: Syslog audit device |
| GA | Use X509 Authentication and Terraform Vault Provider in the MongoDB Atlas Database Secrets Engine. Learn more:Â MongoDB Atlas Database Secrets Engine | |
| ENHANCED | Dependency updates and more robust multiplexing for secrets and authentication plugins. Learn more:Â Serving a plugin with multiplexing (Plugin Development) | |
| AWS support | ENHANCED | Monitoring and performance enhancements for the Vault Lambda extension. Learn more:Â Vault Lambda Extension guide |
| GA | Use static roles for IAM users in the AWS Secrets Engine. Learn more: AWS Secrets Engine | |
| Vault GUI | ENHANCED | Streamlined and aligned navigation with HCP Vault UI. Learn more: Vault UI |
| Transit | ENHANCED | Contributed by the OSS community. Support for public-key only Transit keys and BYOK-secured export of key material. Learn more: Transit Secrets Engine |
Enterprise updates
| Release | Update | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Vault replication | ENHANCED | Stability improvements based on customer feedback for Vault 1.13. See theVault changelogfor a full list of bug fixes. Learn more:Â Replication overview |
| License utilization reporting | GA | Enables automatic license utilization reporting for you and HashiCorp to ensure transparent, accurate billing. Learn more:Â Automated License utilization reporting |
Feature deprecations and EOL
| Deprecated in 1.14 | Retired in 1.14 |
|---|---|
| Vault Agent API proxy support | Duplicative Docker Images |
Please refer to the Deprecation Plans and Notice page for up-to-date information on feature deprecations and plans or the Feature Deprecation FAQ for general questions about our deprecation process.