Hi folks,
The Vault team has released the release candidate of HashiCorp Vault 1.5!
Open-source binaries can be downloaded at [1]. Enterprise binaries are available to customers as well.
As a reminder, if you believe you have found a security issue in Vault, please responsibly disclose by emailing security@hashicorp.com and do not use the public issue tracker. Our security policy and our PGP key can be found at [2].
The key features and improvements in this release candidate are:
- Monitoring : We will be releasing a Splunk App [link coming] for Enterprise customers. The app is accompanied by an updated monitoring guide and a few new metrics to enable OSS users to effectively monitor Vault.
- Password Policies : Allows operators to customize how passwords are generated for select secret engines (OpenLDAP, Active Directory, Azure, and RabbitMQ).
- Replication UI Improvements : We have redesigned the replication UI to highlight the state and relationship between primaries and secondaries and improved management workflows, enabling a more holistic understanding of multiple Vault clusters.
- Resource Quotas : As of 1.5, Vault supports specifying a quota to rate limit requests on OSS and Enterprise. Enterprise customers also have access to set quotas on the number of leases that can be generated on a path.
- OpenShift Support : We have updated the Helm charts to allow users to install Vault onto their OpenShift clusters.
- Seal Migration : We have made updates to allow migrations from auto unseal to Shamir unseal.
- AWS Auth Web Identity Support : We’ve added support for AWS Web Identities, which will be used in the credentials chain if present.
- Vault Monitor : Similar to the monitor command for Consul and Nomad, we have added the ability for Vault to stream logs from other Vault servers at varying log levels.
- AWS Secrets Groups Support : IAM users generated by Vault may now be added to IAM Groups.
- Integrated Storage as HA Storage : In Vault 1.5, it is possible to use Integrated Storage as HA Storage with a different storage backend as regular storage.
- OIDC Auth Provider Extensions : We’ve added support to OIDC Auth to incorporate IdP-specific extensions. Currently this includes expanded Azure AD groups support.
- GCP Secrets : Support BigQuery dataset ACLs in absence of IAM endpoints.
See the Changelog at [3] for the full list of improvements and bug fixes.
OSS [5] and Enterprise [6] Docker images will be available soon.
Upgrading
See [4] for general upgrade instructions.
As always, we recommend upgrading and testing this release in an isolated environment. If you experience any non-security issues, please report them on the Vault GitHub issue tracker or post to the Vault Discuss Forum at [7].
We hope you enjoy the Vault 1.5 release candidate!
Sincerely, The Vault Team
[1] https://releases.hashicorp.com/vault/1.5.0-rc
[2] https://www.hashicorp.com/security
[3] https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#150
[4] https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/upgrading
[5] https://hub.docker.com/_/vault
[6] https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/vault-enterprise
[7] https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/vault