v1.16.0-rc2

1.16.0-rc2

February 21, 2024

SECURITY:

• secrets/transit: fix a regression that was honoring nonces provided in non-convergent modes during encryption. [GH-22852]

CHANGES:

• Upgrade grpc to v1.58.3 [GH-23703]
• Upgrade x/net to v0.17.0 [GH-23703]
• api: add the enterprise parameter to the /sys/health endpoint [GH-24270]
• auth/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25217]
• auth/approle: Normalized error response messages when invalid credentials are provided [GH-23786]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25258]
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-25196]
• auth/gcp: Update plugin to v0.16.2 [GH-25233]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-25326]
• auth/kerberos: Update plugin to v0.11.0 [GH-25232]
• auth/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-25207]
• auth/oci: Update plugin to v0.15.1 [GH-25245]
• cli: Using vault plugin reload with -plugin in the root namespace will now reload the plugin across all namespaces instead of just the root namespace. [GH-24878]
• cli: vault plugin info and vault plugin deregister now require 2 positional arguments instead of accepting either 1 or 2. [GH-24250]
• core: Bump Go version to 1.21.5.
• database/couchbase: Update plugin to v0.10.1 [GH-25275]
• database/elasticsearch: Update plugin to v0.14.0 [GH-25263]
• database/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.11.0 [GH-25264]
• database/redis-elasticache: Update plugin to v0.3.0 [GH-25296]
• database/redis: Update plugin to v0.2.3 [GH-25289]
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.10.0 [GH-25143]
• events: Source URL is now vault://{vault node} [GH-24201]
• identity (enterprise): POST requests to the /identity/entity/merge endpoint
  are now always forwarded from standbys to the active node. [GH-24325]
• plugins/database: Reading connection config at database/config/:name will now return a computed running_plugin_version field if a non-builtin version is running. [GH-25105]
• plugins: Add a warning to the response from sys/plugins/reload/backend if no plugins were reloaded. [GH-24512]
• plugins: By default, environment variables provided during plugin registration will now take precedence over system environment variables. Use the environment variable VAULT_PLUGIN_USE_LEGACY_ENV_LAYERING=true to opt out and keep higher preference for system environment variables. When this flag is set, Vault will check during unseal for conflicts and print warnings for any plugins with environment variables that conflict with system environment variables. [GH-25128]
• plugins: /sys/plugins/runtimes/catalog response will always include a list of "runtimes" in the response, even if empty. [GH-24864]
• sdk: Upgrade dependent packages by sdk. This includes github.com/docker/docker to v24.0.7+incompatible,
  google.golang.org/grpc to v1.57.2 and golang.org/x/net to v0.17.0. [GH-23913]
• secrets/ad: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25187]
• secrets/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-25257]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25189]
• secrets/gcp: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-25173]
• secrets/gcpkms: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-25231]
• secrets/keymgmt: Update plugin to v0.10.0
• secrets/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.7.0 [GH-25204]
• secrets/kv: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25277]
• secrets/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.11.0 [GH-25253]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.11.3 [GH-25040]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-25251]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.12.1 [GH-25524]
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.7.5 [GH-25288]
• telemetry: Seal wrap encrypt/decrypt metrics now differentiate between seals using a metrics label of seal name rather than separate metric names. [GH-23837]
• ui: Update icons to use Flight icons where available. [GH-24823]
• ui: add subnav for replication items [GH-24283]

FEATURES:

• Audit Filtering: Audit devices support expression-based filter rules (powered by go-bexpr) to determine which entries are written to the audit log. [GH-24558]
• Custom Messages: Introduces custom messages settings, allowing users to view, and operators to configure system-wide messages. [GH-23945]
• Database Event Notifications: The database plugin now emits event notifications. [GH-24718]
• Default Lease Count Quota: Apply a new global default lease count quota of 300k leases for all
  new installs of Vault. [GH-24382]
• Manual License Utilization Reporting: Added manual license
  utilization reporting, which allows users to create manual exports of product-license [metering
  data] to report to Hashicorp.
• Plugin Identity Tokens: Adds secret-less configuration of AWS secret engine using web identity federation. [GH-24987]
• Plugin Workload Identity: Vault can generate identity tokens for plugins to use in workload identity federation auth flows. [GH-25219]
• Quotas in Privileged Namespaces: Enable creation/update/deletion of quotas from the privileged namespace [GH-24040]
• Quotas in Privileged Namespaces: Enable creation/update/deletion of quotas from the privileged namespace
• Reload seal configuration on SIGHUP: Seal configuration is reloaded on SIGHUP so that seal configuration can
  be changed without shutting down vault [GH-23571]
• Request Limiter: Add adaptive concurrency limits to write-based HTTP
  methods and special-case pki/issue requests to prevent overloading the Vault
  server. [GH-25093]
• Rotate Root for LDAP auth: Rotate root operations are now supported for the LDAP auth engine. [GH-24099]
• Seal High Availability (enterprise): Operators can configure more than one automatic seal for resilience against seal provider outages.
• Secrets Sync UI (enterprise): Adds secret syncing for KV v2 secrets to external destinations using the UI. [GH-23667]
• Vault PKI EST Server (Enterprise/Beta): Beta support for the PKI Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) certificate management protocol has been added to the Vault PKI Plugin. This allows standard EST clients to request certificates from a Vault server with no knowledge of Vault APIs.
• Vault Proxy Static Secret Caching: Adds support for static secret (KVv1 and KVv2) caching to Vault Proxy. [GH-23621]
• raft-wal: Add experimental support for raft-wal, a new backend engine for integrated storage. [GH-21460]
• secrets-import (enterprise): Support importing secrets from external sources into KVv2
• secrets/aws: Support issuing an STS Session Token directly from the root credential. [GH-23690]
• cli/snapshot: Add CLI tool to inspect Vault snapshots [GH-23457]
• cli: introduce new command group hcp which groups subcommands for authentication of users or machines to HCP using
  either provided arguments or retrieved HCP token through browser login. [GH-23897]
• config/listener: allow per-listener configuration setting to disable replication status endpoints. [GH-23547]
• config/listener: allow per-listener configuration settings to redact sensitive pa...

v1.16.0-rc1

1.16.0-rc1

February 14, 2024

SECURITY:

• secrets/transit: fix a regression that was honoring nonces provided in non-convergent modes during encryption. [GH-22852]

CHANGES:

• Upgrade grpc to v1.58.3 [GH-23703]
• Upgrade x/net to v0.17.0 [GH-23703]
• api: add the enterprise parameter to the /sys/health endpoint [GH-24270]
• auth/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25217]
• auth/approle: Normalized error response messages when invalid credentials are provided [GH-23786]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25258]
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-25196]
• auth/gcp: Update plugin to v0.16.2 [GH-25233]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-25326]
• auth/kerberos: Update plugin to v0.11.0 [GH-25232]
• auth/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-25207]
• auth/oci: Update plugin to v0.15.1 [GH-25245]
• cli: Using vault plugin reload with -plugin in the root namespace will now reload the plugin across all namespaces instead of just the root namespace. [GH-24878]
• cli: vault plugin info and vault plugin deregister now require 2 positional arguments instead of accepting either 1 or 2. [GH-24250]
• core: Bump Go version to 1.21.5.
• database/couchbase: Update plugin to v0.10.1 [GH-25275]
• database/elasticsearch: Update plugin to v0.14.0 [GH-25263]
• database/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.11.0 [GH-25264]
• database/redis-elasticache: Update plugin to v0.3.0 [GH-25296]
• database/redis: Update plugin to v0.2.3 [GH-25289]
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.10.0 [GH-25143]
• events: Source URL is now vault://{vault node} [GH-24201]
• identity (enterprise): POST requests to the /identity/entity/merge endpoint
  are now always forwarded from standbys to the active node. [GH-24325]
• plugins/database: Reading connection config at database/config/:name will now return a computed running_plugin_version field if a non-builtin version is running. [GH-25105]
• plugins: Add a warning to the response from sys/plugins/reload/backend if no plugins were reloaded. [GH-24512]
• plugins: By default, environment variables provided during plugin registration will now take precedence over system environment variables.
  Use the environment variable VAULT_PLUGIN_USE_LEGACY_ENV_LAYERING=true to opt out and keep higher preference for system environment
  variables. When this flag is set, Vault will check during unseal for conflicts and print warnings for any plugins with environment
  variables that conflict with system environment variables. [GH-25128]
• plugins: /sys/plugins/runtimes/catalog response will always include a list of "runtimes" in the response, even if empty. [GH-24864]
• sdk: Upgrade dependent packages by sdk.
  This includes github.com/docker/docker to v24.0.7+incompatible,
  google.golang.org/grpc to v1.57.2 and golang.org/x/net to v0.17.0. [GH-23913]
• secrets/ad: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25187]
• secrets/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-25257]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25189]
• secrets/gcp: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-25173]
• secrets/gcpkms: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-25231]
• secrets/keymgmt: Update plugin to v0.10.0
• secrets/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.7.0 [GH-25204]
• secrets/kv: Update plugin to v0.17.0 [GH-25277]
• secrets/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.11.0 [GH-25253]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-25251]
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.7.5 [GH-25288]
• telemetry: Seal wrap encrypt/decrypt metrics now differentiate between seals using a metrics label of seal name rather than separate metric names. [GH-23837]
• ui: Update icons to use Flight icons where available. [GH-24823]
• ui: add subnav for replication items [GH-24283]

FEATURES:

• Audit Filtering: Audit devices support expression-based filter rules (powered by go-bexpr) to determine which entries are written to the audit log. [GH-24558]
• Custom messages: Introduces custom messages settings, allowing users to view, and operators to configure system-wide messages. [GH-23945]
• Database Event Notifications: The database plugin now emits event notifications. [GH-24718]
• Default Lease Count Quota: Apply a new global default lease count quota of 300k leases for all
  new installs of Vault. [GH-24382]
• Manual License Utilization Reporting: Added manual license
  utilization reporting, which allows users to create manual exports of product-license [metering
  data] to report to Hashicorp.
• Plugin Identity Tokens: Adds secret-less configuration of AWS secret engine using web identity federation. [GH-24987]
• Plugin Workload Identity: Vault can generate identity tokens for plugins to use in workload identity federation auth flows. [GH-25219]
• Quotas in Privileged Namespaces: Enable creation/update/deletion of quotas from the privileged namespace [GH-24040]
• Reload seal configuration on SIGHUP: Seal configuration is reloaded on SIGHUP so that seal configuration can
  be changed without shutting down vault [GH-23571]
• Request Limiter: Add adaptive concurrency limits to write-based HTTP
  methods and special-case pki/issue requests to prevent overloading the Vault
  server. [GH-25093]
• Rotate Root for LDAP auth: Rotate root operations are now supported for the LDAP auth engine. [GH-24099]
• Seal High Availability (enterprise): Operators can configure more than one automatic seal for resilience against seal provider outages.
• Secrets Sync UI (enterprise): Adds secret syncing for KV v2 secrets to external destinations using the UI. [GH-23667]
• Vault PKI EST Server (Enterprise/Beta): Beta support for the PKI Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) certificate management protocol has been added to the Vault PKI Plugin. This allows standard EST clients to request certificates from a Vault server with no knowledge of Vault APIs.
• Vault Proxy Static Secret Caching: Adds support for static secret (KVv1 and KVv2) caching to Vault Proxy. [GH-23621]
• raft-wal: Add experimental support for raft-wal, a new backend engine for integrated storage. [GH-21460]
• secrets-import (enterprise): Support importing secrets from external sources into KVv2
• secrets/aws: Support issuing an STS Session Token directly from the root credential. [GH-23690]
• cli/snapshot: Add CLI tool to inspect Vault snapshots [GH-23457]
• cli: introduce new command group hcp which groups subcommands for authentication of users or machines to HCP using
  either provided arguments or retrieved HCP token through browser login. [GH-23897]
• config/listener: allow per-listener configuration setting to disable replication status endpoints. [GH-23547]
• config/listener: allow per-listener configuration settings to redact sensitive parts of response to unauthenticated endpoints. [GH-23534]
• core: add sys/internal/ui/version endpoint [GH-23740]
• sys (enterprise): Enable sys/config/group-application-policy in privileged namespace

IMPROVE...

v1.14.9

1.14.9

January 31, 2024

CHANGES:

• core: Bump Go version to 1.20.12.
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.9.2 [GH-25057]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• command/server: display logs on startup immediately if disable-gated-logs flag is set [GH-24280]
• oidc/provider: Adds code_challenge_methods_supported to OpenID Connect Metadata [GH-24979]
• storage/raft: Upgrade to bbolt 1.3.8, along with an extra patch to reduce time scanning large freelist maps. [GH-24010]
• ui: latest version of chrome does not automatically redirect back to the app after authentication unless triggered by the user, hence added a link to redirect back to the app. [GH-18513]

BUG FIXES:

• helper/pkcs7: Fix slice out-of-bounds panic [GH-24891]
• kmip (enterprise): Only return a Server Correlation Value to clients using KMIP version 1.4.
• ui: Fixed minor bugs with database secrets engine [GH-24947]
• ui: Fixes input for jwks_ca_pem when configuring a JWT auth method [GH-24697]
• ui: The UI can now be used to create or update database roles by operator without permission on the database connection. [GH-24660]
• ui: fix incorrectly calculated capabilities on PKI issuer endpoints [GH-24686]

v1.13.13

1.13.13

January 31, 2024

CHANGES:

• core: Bump Go version to 1.20.12.
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.7.4 [GH-25059]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• command/server: display logs on startup immediately if disable-gated-logs flag is set [GH-24280]
• storage/raft: Upgrade to bbolt 1.3.8, along with an extra patch to reduce time scanning large freelist maps. [GH-24010]
• ui: latest version of chrome does not automatically redirect back to the app after authentication unless triggered by the user, hence added a link to redirect back to the app. [GH-18513]

BUG FIXES:

• helper/pkcs7: Fix slice out-of-bounds panic [GH-24891]
• kmip (enterprise): Only return a Server Correlation Value to clients using KMIP version 1.4.
• ui: Fixed minor bugs with database secrets engine [GH-24947]
• ui: Fixes input for jwks_ca_pem when configuring a JWT auth method [GH-24697]
• ui: fix incorrectly calculated capabilities on PKI issuer endpoints [GH-24686]

v1.15.5

1.15.5

January 31, 2024

SECURITY:

• audit: Fix bug where use of 'log_raw' option could result in other devices logging raw audit data [GH-24968] [HCSEC-2024-01]

CHANGES:

• core: Bump Go version to 1.21.5.
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.9.1 [GH-25020]
• secrets/ad: Update plugin to v0.16.2 [GH-25058]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.11.3 [GH-25040]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• command/server: display logs on startup immediately if disable-gated-logs flag is set [GH-24280]
• core/activity: Include secret_syncs in activity log responses [GH-24710]
• oidc/provider: Adds code_challenge_methods_supported to OpenID Connect Metadata [GH-24979]
• storage/raft: Upgrade to bbolt 1.3.8, along with an extra patch to reduce time scanning large freelist maps. [GH-24010]
• sys (enterprise): Adds the chroot_namespace field to this sys/internal/ui/resultant-acl endpoint, which exposes the value of the chroot namespace from the
  listener config.
• ui: latest version of chrome does not automatically redirect back to the app after authentication unless triggered by the user, hence added a link to redirect back to the app. [GH-18513]

BUG FIXES:

• audit/socket: Provide socket based audit backends with 'prefix' configuration option when supplied. [GH-25004]
• audit: Fix bug where use of 'log_raw' option could result in other devices logging raw audit data [GH-24968]
• auth/saml (enterprise): Fixes support for Microsoft Entra ID enterprise applications
• core (enterprise): fix a potential deadlock if an error is received twice from underlying storage for the same key
• core: upgrade github.com/hashicorp/go-kms-wrapping/wrappers/azurekeyvault/v2 to
  support azure workload identities. [GH-24954]
• helper/pkcs7: Fix slice out-of-bounds panic [GH-24891]
• kmip (enterprise): Only return a Server Correlation Value to clients using KMIP version 1.4.
• plugins: fix panic when registering containerized plugin with a custom runtime on a perf standby
• ui: Allows users to dismiss the resultant-acl banner. [GH-25106]
• ui: Correctly handle redirects from pre 1.15.0 Kv v2 edit, create, and show urls. [GH-24339]
• ui: Fixed minor bugs with database secrets engine [GH-24947]
• ui: Fixes input for jwks_ca_pem when configuring a JWT auth method [GH-24697]
• ui: Fixes policy input toolbar scrolling by default [GH-23297]
• ui: The UI can now be used to create or update database roles by operator without permission on the database connection. [GH-24660]
• ui: fix KV v2 details view defaulting to JSON view when secret value includes { [GH-24513]
• ui: fix incorrectly calculated capabilities on PKI issuer endpoints [GH-24686]
• ui: fix issue where kv v2 capabilities checks were not passing in the full secret path if secret was inside a directory. [GH-24404]
• ui: fix navigation items shown to user when chroot_namespace configured [GH-24492]

v1.15.4

1.15.4

SECURITY:

• core: Fixes an issue present in both Vault and Vault Enterprise since Vault 1.12.0, where Vault is vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large HTTP requests from a client. Upgrading is strongly recommended.(see CVE-2023-6337 & HCSEC-2023-34)

CHANGES:

• identity (enterprise): POST requests to the /identity/entity/merge endpoint are now always forwarded from standbys to the active node. [GH-24325]

BUG FIXES:

• agent/logging: Agent should now honor correct -log-format and -log-file settings in logs generated by the consul-template library. [GH-24252]
• api: Fix deadlock on calls to sys/leader with a namespace configured on the request. [GH-24256]
• core: Fix a timeout initializing Vault by only using a short timeout persisting barrier keyring encryption counts. [GH-24336]
• ui: Correctly handle directory redirects from pre 1.15.0 Kv v2 list view urls. [GH-24281]
• ui: Fix payload sent when disabling replication [GH-24292]
• ui: When Kv v2 secret is an object, fix so details view defaults to readOnly JSON editor. [GH-24290]

v1.14.8

1.14.8

SECURITY:

• core: Fixes an issue present in both Vault and Vault Enterprise since Vault 1.12.0, where Vault is vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large HTTP requests from a client. Upgrading is strongly recommended.(see CVE-2023-6337 & HCSEC-2023-34)

CHANGES:

• identity (enterprise): POST requests to the /identity/entity/merge endpoint are now always forwarded from standbys to the active node. [GH-24325]

BUG FIXES:

• agent/logging: Agent should now honor correct -log-format and -log-file settings in logs generated by the consul-template library. [GH-24252]
• api: Fix deadlock on calls to sys/leader with a namespace configured on the request. [GH-24256]
• core: Fix a timeout initializing Vault by only using a short timeout persisting barrier keyring encryption counts. [GH-24336]
• ui: Fix payload sent when disabling replication [GH-24292]

v1.13.12

1.13.12

SECURITY:

• core: Fixes an issue present in both Vault and Vault Enterprise since Vault 1.12.0, where Vault is vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large HTTP requests from a client. Upgrading is strongly recommended.(see CVE-2023-6337 & HCSEC-2023-34)

CHANGES:

• identity (enterprise): POST requests to the /identity/entity/merge endpoint are now always forwarded from standbys to the active node. [GH-24325]

BUG FIXES:

• api: Fix deadlock on calls to sys/leader with a namespace configured on the request. [GH-24256]
• core: Fix a timeout initializing Vault by only using a short timeout persisting barrier keyring encryption counts. [GH-24336]
• ui: Fix payload sent when disabling replication [GH-24292]

v1.15.3

1.15.3

November 30, 2023

CHANGES:

• core: Bump Go version to 1.21.4.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core (enterprise): Speed up unseal when using namespaces
• core: update sys/seal-status (and CLI vault status) to report the type of
  the seal when unsealed, as well as the type of the recovery seal if an
  auto-seal. [GH-23022]
• secrets/pki: do not check TLS validity on ACME requests redirected to https [GH-22521]
• ui: Sort list view of entities and aliases alphabetically using the item name [GH-24103]
• ui: capabilities-self is always called in the user's root namespace [GH-24168]

BUG FIXES:

• activity log (enterprise): De-duplicate client count estimates for license utilization reporting.
• auth/cert: Handle errors related to expired OCSP server responses [GH-24193]
• core (Enterprise): Treat multiple disabled HA seals as a migration to Shamir.
• core/audit: Audit logging a Vault response will now use a 5 second context timeout, separate from the original request. [GH-24238]
• core/config: Use correct HCL config value when configuring log_requests_level. [GH-24059]
• core/quotas: Close rate-limit blocked client purge goroutines when sealing [GH-24108]
• core: Fix an error that resulted in the wrong seal type being returned by sys/seal-status while
  Vault is in seal migration mode. [GH-24165]
• replication (enterprise): disallow configuring paths filter for a mount path that does not exist
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Fix panic when setting usage_gauge_period to none
• secrets/pki: Do not set nextUpdate field in OCSP responses when ocsp_expiry is 0 [GH-24192]
• secrets/transit: Fix a panic when attempting to export a public RSA key [GH-24054]
• ui: Fix JSON editor in KV V2 unable to handle pasted values [GH-24224]
• ui: Fix error when tuning token auth configuration within namespace [GH-24147]
• ui: show error from API when seal fails [GH-23921]

v1.14.7

1.14.7

November 30, 2023

CHANGES:

• core: Bump Go version to 1.20.11.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core (enterprise): Speed up unseal when using namespaces
• secrets/pki: do not check TLS validity on ACME requests redirected to https [GH-22521]
• ui: Sort list view of entities and aliases alphabetically using the item name [GH-24103]
• ui: Update flat, shell-quote and swagger-ui-dist packages. Remove swagger-ui styling overrides. [GH-23700]

BUG FIXES:

• activity log (enterprise): De-duplicate client count estimates for license utilization reporting.
• auth/cert: Handle errors related to expired OCSP server responses [GH-24193]
• core/config: Use correct HCL config value when configuring log_requests_level. [GH-24058]
• core/quotas: Close rate-limit blocked client purge goroutines when sealing [GH-24108]
• replication (enterprise): disallow configuring paths filter for a mount path that does not exist
• secrets/pki: Do not set nextUpdate field in OCSP responses when ocsp_expiry is 0 [GH-24192]
• secrets/transit: Fix a panic when attempting to export a public RSA key [GH-24054]
• ui: Fix error when tuning token auth configuration within namespace [GH-24147]