Vault 1.18.0-rc1 released!

Hi all,

The Vault team is announcing the release candidate for 1.18. Release candidates must not be used in production, but your feedback is critical for a smooth final release.

Community Edition binary 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 major features and improvements in these releases are:

  • PKI Certificate Management Protocol - Version 2 (CMPv2) (Enterprise) to enable 5G wireless providers address 3GPP standards requirements related to automated certificate enrollment.
  • Workload Identity Federation UI for AWS (Enterprise)
  • Self-managed static roles for Postgres (Enterprise)
  • Inline TLS configuration for the Postgres Database Secrets Engine
  • Adaptive Overload Protection (Enterprise): Actively limits the length of Vault’s storage queue to handle Vault cluster overload scenarios. (Integrated Storage only)

See the Changelog at [3] for the full list of improvements and bug fixes.

See the Feature Deprecation Notice and Plans page [8] for our upcoming feature deprecation plans.

Community [6] and Enterprise [7] Docker images will be available soon.


Upgrading

See [4] for general upgrade instructions and [5] for upgrade instructions and known issues.

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 [9].

We hope you enjoy Vault 1.18.0-rc1!

Sincerely, The Vault Team

[1] Vault v1.18.0-rc1 Binaries | HashiCorp Releases

[2] Security at HashiCorp

[3] vault/CHANGELOG.md at main · hashicorp/vault · GitHub

[4] Upgrading Vault - Guides | Vault | HashiCorp Developer

[5] Release Notes | Vault | HashiCorp Developer

[6] https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/vault

[7] https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/vault-enterprise

[8] Deprecation notices | Vault | HashiCorp Developer

[9] Vault - HashiCorp Discuss