Vault 1.18.0-rc1 released!
Tony Wittinger
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 secu...@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.
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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] https://releases.hashicorp.com/vault/1.18.0-rc1
[2] https://www.hashicorp.com/security
[3] https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
[4] https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/upgrading
[5] https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/v1.18.x/release-notes
[6] https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/vault
[7] https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/vault-enterprise