2.0.4

August 04, 2026

BREAKING CHANGES:

• containers: The following packages have been removed from UBI based container
  images: gnupg, openssl, procps.

SECURITY:

• acl: Fix privilege-escalation vulnerability where a denied_parameters constraint on the policies request field could be bypassed by submitting a mixed-case policy name (e.g. "Super-Admin" instead of "super-admin"). Vault now normalizes the policies parameter to lowercase before evaluating allowed_parameters/denied_parameters constraints.
• identity/scim (enterprise): The identity/entity/merge endpoint now rejects requests that involve any SCIM-managed entity, preventing privileged operators from bypassing SCIM ownership guardrails to transfer aliases, group memberships, or policies across SCIM boundaries.
• identity: Prevent the entity batch-delete endpoint (identity/entity/batch-delete) from deleting the underlying storage of entities that belong to another namespace.
• identity: entity/name updates now reject mismatched id or external_id selectors to prevent retargeting updates to a different entity

CHANGES:

• auth/oci: Update plugin to v0.21.3
• core: Bump Go version to 1.26.5.
• core: remove support for duplicate attributes in HCL configuration files and policy definitions. Parsing HCL with
  duplicate attributes now always fails, and the VAULT_ALLOW_PENDING_REMOVAL_DUPLICATE_HCL_ATTRIBUTES environment
  variable that previously restored the legacy behavior has been removed.

FEATURES:

• secrets: Added ability to view secrets in YAML format

IMPROVEMENTS:

• auth/cert: Support login via x-forwarded cert headers even with tls disabled on the vault listener.
• core (enterprise): Add an endpoint at sys/config/oauth-resource-server/id/:config_id to read oauth resource server profiles by config_id
• core (enterprise): Make OAuth resource server JWT typ validation more permissive for tokens from IdPs such as Okta by allowing a missing typ header, while restricting present typ values to at+jwt, application/at+jwt, and JWT.
• core (entreprise): Ameriolate sealwrap lock contention for core paths.
• core/acl: Adds a global deny_slash_in_templated_path configuration option to reject the presence of slashes in rendered identity templates in policies, defaulting to false.
• core/identity: Adds a global deny_slash_in_templated_path configuration option to reject the presence of slashes in rendered identity templates in policies, defaulting to false.
• core/managed-keys/PKCS#11 (enterprise): Providing a non-empty value for one field while the other is already saved is rejected. To switch addressing modes, you must explicitly clear the old field by sending it as an empty string ("") in the same request alongside the new value.
• core/managed-keys/PKCS#11 (enterprise): slot and token_label are now strictly enforced as mutually exclusive identifiers for an HSM token
• events: Add VAULT_EVENT_NOTIFICATIONS_BOUNDED_QUEUE_SIZE environment variable to configure bounded event queues for event notification subscribers. Set to a positive integer (e.g., 16) to enable buffered channels of that size (maximum 1000). This prevents resource exhaustion in deployments with high subscriber counts, but comes at the cost of the potential for subscribers to miss events. Defaults to 0 (unbuffered) for backward compatibility.
• identity/scim (enterprise): Added filtering support to the GET /scim/v2/Users and GET /scim/v2/Groups endpoints per RFC 7644. Supported filters: userName eq, externalId eq, active eq, and meta.lastModified gt/ge/lt/le for Users; displayName eq and meta.lastModified gt/ge/lt/le for Groups. Unsupported filter expressions return HTTP 400. ServiceProviderConfig now advertises filter.supported: true.
• identity/scim (enterprise): Improve SCIM User and Group listing endpoint performance by using prefix sort instead of a separate sort pass.
• identity: Include entity status and entity/alias timestamp details in entity list key_info responses.
• oauth-resource-server: Add support for fine-grained policy control options (parameter constraints) in Rich Authorization Requests (RAR), including allowed_parameters, denied_parameters, and required_parameters inside authorization_details.
• oauth-resource-server: Add support for identity template expressions (e.g. {{identity.entity.id}}) in Rich Authorization Requests (RAR).
• scim: User resources now include a read-only groups field listing the direct group memberships managed by the requesting SCIM client, per RFC 7643.
• secrets/kv (enterprise): Support reading and recovering KVv2 secrets from a loaded snapshot, including in-place recover and copy-from-path within the same mount and namespace.
• ui: Add a read-only YAML view option to the KV v2 secret details page, alongside the existing UI and JSON views.
• ui: Bump pnpm.overrides entry for tmp from 0.2.6 to 0.2.7.
• ui: Bump pnpm.overrides entry for ws from 8.20.1 to 8.21.0.

BUG FIXES:

• Proxy/Agent: Fixed a bug where auth method headers accumulated on the shared API client across re-auth cycles.
• Proxy: Fixed a bug where the Vault token header accumulated duplicate values across WebSocket reconnects in the static secret cache updater.
• Secrets Recovery (enterprise): Do not redirect to the active node for list requests to sys/storage/raft/snapshot-load or read/delete requests to sys/storage/raft/snapshot-load/{id}. If possible, handle these requests on the performance standby, otherwise forward the requests to the active node.
• audit: Fix a regression from CVE-2025-6000 that broke enabling audit devices on Windows when a plugin directory was configured.
• audit: make file and socket audit sink serialization context-aware so canceled or expired requests stop waiting behind blocked audit writes, reducing buildup of goroutines, memory, connections, and file descriptors during audit sink contention
• auth/cert: Add support for x-forwarded cert headers coming from AWS ALBs.
• auth/spiffe (enterprise): Use the full peer certificate chain when verifying certificates.
• aws/auth: Redact EC2 instance metadata values from AWS auth error messages.
• consumption-billing: Fix bug where PKI, SSH and SSH OTP certificate billing units from performance standby nodes were not being forwarded to active nodes for storage, causing billing events on standby nodes to be lost.
• consumption-billing: Fix bug where SPIFFE JWT token billing units from performance standby nodes were not being forwarded to active nodes for storage, causing billing events on standby nodes to be lost.
• consumption-billing: Fixed a bug where SSH duration-adjusted certificate counts and OTP counts whose decimal representation began with '4' could not be read back from storage, causing sys/billing/overview to return a 500 error with "lz4: bad magic number". The storage encoding now uses plain decimal strings consistent with other billing metrics, avoiding misidentification as lz4-compressed data.
• consumption-billing: Fixed bug where OIDC token duration counts from performance standby nodes were not forwarded to active nodes for storage, causing billing events on standby nodes to be lost.
• consumption-billing: Fixed deadlocks in KMIP and mount-scanning billing paths by avoiding nested lock acquisition during mount and plugin enumeration.
• consumption-billing: Fixes LDAP and OpenLDAP dynamic and static role counting in use-case billing
  to use dedicated count endpoints (role-count, static-role-count) instead of LIST-based counting, which was undercounting roles.
• core (enterprise): Fix a bug that causes unnecessary seal rewrapping.
• core (enterprise): Preserve wrapping metadata when Control Group unwrap replays an approved request that returns a wrapped response.
• core (enterprise): Update state checking of Sever-Side Consistent Token (SSCT) when used on performance secondary clusters. 403 response codes will be preferred over 412 for invalid, cross cluster token requests to secondary active nodes.
• core/managed-keys (enterprise): Allow slot numbers above 32 bits in PKCS#11 managed keys.
• core/seal: Fixed goroutine leak occurring when Encryption and Decryption functions time out.
• core: Preserve URL query parameters when redirecting API requests containing duplicate slashes to their canonical path.
  Previously, the redirect dropped parameters such as ?list=true, potentially changing the result of the request.
• events (enterprise): Fix a bug where events stopped being forwarded to performance secondaries after the active node restarted or had a change event (seal/unseal, etc).
• export API: Normalize the end_time parameter in the activity export API to the end of the month to match the behavior stated in the documentation.
• oauth-resource-server (enterprise): OAuth Resource Server authorization now treats an empty authorization_details array like an absent claim when authorization details are optional. Previously, tokens containing an empty array were rejected with RAR_NO_MATCH instead of continuing through normal identity and policy authorization.
• secrets-sync (enterprise):fixed incorrect error response code mapping for GCP Secrets Sync Customer Controlled Encryption validations, which were returned as 500 Internal Server Error instead of 400 Bad Request.
• secrets-sync: Fix GCP Secret Manager destinations losing their per-region KMS key on Vault restart.
• secrets-sync: Fixes Custom Tags field in Details view to display keys with empty value
• secrets/pki-external-ca (enterprise): Include the private key within the certificate API response field's PEMs when certificate_format is set to pem_bundle
• secrets/transit (enterprise): Add managed key support to CSR sign and set certificate chain endpoints.
• ui: Correctly handle string values ("true"/"false")...

SECURITY:

• auth/radius: Added case_insensitive_names toggle to prevent username collisions and enable case-insensitive user handling.
• core/acl: Fix LIST ACL bypass where a trailing-slash request could skip a more-specific deny rule.
• core: Use constant-time recovery token comparison
• secrets/spiffe (enterprise): Ensure template values are properly escaped.
• transform (enterprise): Add appropriate db specific quoting and escaping.

CHANGES:

• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.23.1
• core/acl: LIST requests with a trailing slash now correctly respect more-specific deny policies. Previously, a deny on path "kv/*" { deny } could be bypassed for LIST kv/private/ if a broader allow path "kv/*" also existed. Policies relying on the previous (incorrect) behavior may now be denied.
• core: Vault will now redirect non-canonicalized paths (containing /./, /../, or //) to a cleaned path, instead of rejecting these requests
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.26.5+ent

FEATURES:

• AI Agent Support (Beta/Enterprise): Adds beta support for first-class AI agents. Adds
  an Agent Registry to register agents, and adds support for using Vault as an OAuth resource server
  for registered agent entities. When configured, allows OAuth 2.0 JWTs to be used to directly authorize
  requests to Vault, without needing a Vault token.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• consumption-billing: Add a new sys/billing/config endpoint to allow configuration of billing data retention (min 13 months, max 6 years).
• core (Enterprise): Make deadlock detection in sealwrap configurable by adding "sealwrap" to existing configuration detect_deadlocks.
• identity/scim (enterprise): Update PATCH operations on scim/v2/Users to allow multiple modifications in the same patch call, support for patch operations on user metadata and name in addition to active status, and allow specifying path value in patch operations
• sdk/helper/keysutil: The lock manager's GetPolicy function now always returns a locked Policy, even when caching is
  enabled. The PolicyRequest struct has a new field to indicate whether the caller requires a write lock on the policy.
• ui (enterprise): Migrate charts from Lineal to Carbon Charts in the Client usage overview and Vault usage dashboard.

BUG FIXES:

• core/rotationMgr: Fix storage routing for local mounts in namespaces to prevent metadata replication and ensure GDPR compliance.
• kmip (enterprise): Fix a bug that prevents the legacy CA from working on a named listener.
• secret-sync (enterprise): Fix GCP Secret Manager replication policy persistence across Vault restarts.
• secrets/database/mssql: Deregister stale TLS configurations when MySQL connection TLS settings change or the connection is closed, preventing retained certificate pools from accumulating.
• secrets/pki: Fix PKI certificate issuance not_after time to respect max TTL.
• secrets/transit: Add managed key support to Transit rewrap endpoint.
• storage/raft: reject performance_multiplier values less than or equal to zero

BREAKING CHANGES:

• containers: Remove cap_ipc_lock capability on vault at build time to allow running Vault in common container runtimes. Vault in containers will no longer be able to call mlock() to lock memory. Operators should set disable_mlock = true in Vault's configuration. Runtime operators are advised to disable swapping to guarantee data safety.
• secrets/ssh: RSA key sizes are now limited to a maximum size of 8192 bits addressing CVE-2026-39829

CHANGES:

• core: Bump Go version to 1.26.4
• secrets/azure (enterprise): Update plugin to v0.26.4+ent

BUG FIXES:

• plugins: Fix plugin signature verification failure with expired pgp key when registering a plugin.
• ui/transit: Fix key version dropdown selected state when editing a transit key.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• containers: set cap_ipc_lock capability on vault at build time. Container runtimes will need to add IPC_LOCK capabilities when running the vault container.

SECURITY:

• api: Update golang.org/x/net to resolve GO-2026-4918"
• core/identity: reject wildcards in rendered identity templates
• core: Resolve GHSA-j88v-2chj-qfwx by removing our dependency on github.com/jackc/pgx/v3 and github.com/jackc/pgx/v4
• core: Update github.com/Azure/go-ntlmssp to fix security vulnerability v0.1.1.
• core: Update github.com/apache/thrift to fix security vulnerability GHSA-wf45-q9ch-q8gh
• core: Update github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 to fix security vulnerability GHSA-j88v-2chj-qfwx.
• core: Update golang.org/x/net to resolve GO-2026-4918"
• core: Validate both path and file_path cannot be empty for requests to sys/audit/{path}
• sdk: Resolve GHSA-j88v-2chj-qfwx by removing our dependency on github.com/jackc/pgx/v3 and github.com/jackc/pgx/v4
• sdk: Update github.com/Azure/go-ntlmssp to fix security vulnerability v0.1.1.
• sdk: Update github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 to fix security vulnerability GHSA-j88v-2chj-qfwx.
• sdk: Update golang.org/x/net to resolve GO-2026-4918"

CHANGES:

• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.26.3
• core: Bump Go version to 1.26.3
• identity: Require sudo capability to invoke the identity entity merge API endpoint (identity/entity/merge).
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.26.2+ent
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.18.1+ent

FEATURES:

• Billing metrics dashboard: Create a new billing dashboard with responsive layout to display metric data.
• Secrets Sync UI: Added Workload Identity Federation (WIF) support in the UI for AWS, Azure, and GCP sync destinations

IMPROVEMENTS:

• api: Add start_month and end_month parameters to /sys/billing/overview endpoint to allow querying billing data for specific time ranges.
• api: Add migration_done_at_epoch to sys/seal-status response.
• consumption-billing: Add billing tracking for OS Local Account static roles to support consumption-based billing metrics and high-water mark (HWM) tracking.
• consumption-billing: Added consumption billing metrics for OIDC tokens.
• consumption-billing: Added consumption billing metrics for PKI External CA certificates.
• consumption-billing: Added consumption billing metrics for SPIFFE JWT tokens.
• consumption-billing: Enabled sys/billing/overview endpoint in admin namespace.
• consumption-billing: Float64 values returned by sys/billing/overview are now rounded to 4 decimal places.
• consumption-billing: Increased billing data retention from 2 months to 37 months. The /sys/internal/billing/overview API endpoint now returns 37 months of historical consumption billing data by default.
• consumption-billing: The /sys/internal/billing/overview API endpoint now always returns all metric types in the response, even when their values are zero. This ensures consistent response structure for easier client-side parsing.
• core (Enterprise): Sanitized config now shows kms_library config.
• core/seal (enterprise): Make it possible for new nodes to join a cluster configured with Seal High Availability.
• scim: The SCIM Group PATCH handler now supports the path field in the form members[value eq "id"] on remove operations.
• sdk: Expand support for docker test cluster options like seals, kms libraries, and entropy augmentation. DockerClusterNode.UpdateConfig now takes a full set of cluster options instead of just node config.
• sdk: add WIF and rotation helpers for checking if params were updated to allow the consumer to know when changes need to be persisted to storage
• secrets/pki (enterprise): Allow SCEP to use an issuer that is backed by an RSA based PKCS#11 managed key
• secrets/transit: Change to using Trail of Bits libraries for PQC signature implementation in Transit
• ui/dashboard: Reorganized dashboard widgets to improve layout and usability. Updated widgets to use HDS table components for better consistency. Enhanced the Quick Actions card with frequently used links alongside existing actions.
• ui: Set pagination size to 10 for custom messages list view and toggle the "Apply filters" button visibility based on filter selection.
• ui: Update copy on merge entities page to specify entity ID is the required data input when merging entities.
• ui: add validations to the ACL visual policy editor to prevent it from saving policies with empty paths or capabilities.

BUG FIXES:

• auth/aws: fix bug where rotation and wif config updates were not persisted to storage
• client/ocsp: Adds a grace period to renew the cached entry for OCSP response.
• core: Fix failure to detect errors during storage writes of totp keys.
• database/mssql: Fix "sysadmin" requirement during lease revocation by replacing the undocumented sp_msloginmappings procedure with a granular metadata query. This allows the plugin to function with VIEW ANY DEFINITION instead of full sysadmin privileges.
• database/mssql: Fix dynamic secret revocation by executing custom statements as a single batch instead of splitting on semicolons
• database/snowflake: Fix WAL rollback issue for key-pair root credential rotation.
• database: prevent static role rotation and connection init from hanging indefinitely when database calls block by adding timeouts around UpdateUser and Initialize
• events (enterprise): Fix panic when replicating lease events.
• go-plugin: Upgrade go-plugin to fix a bug where file descriptors could be leaked when spawning external plugins
• identity: fixed a rare but possible data race issue with identities.
• sdk: Small bugfixes relating to docker test container cleanup and image building.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Fix destination PATCH handling for WIF identity_token_ttl normalization and GCP service_account_email decoding.
• secrets/kmip (enterprise): Address a nil pointer within the invalidation handler for managed objects.
• secrets/ldap: enable proper license checking on 'openldap' plugin alias. This enables enterprise features when configuring mounts with the 'openldap' alias.
• secrets/pki (enterprise): Fix SCEP nonce logging in audit data.
• secrets/pki (enterprise): Include root CA in chain for CIEPS endpoints when root is the direct issuer, unless remove_roots_from_chain is true.
• secrets/pki: Remove invalid value from the supported list of ACME algorithms.
• ui: Add name field validation to LDAP create and edit roles forms.
• ui: Fix LDAP hierarchical role navigation in UI
• ui: Fix entities page to show success message after successfully editing an entity.
• ui: Fix secrets to secrets-engines redirect for bookmarked URLs.
• ui: Fixed custom messages list to display the expiration time on Inactive message badges.
• ui: Fixed sidebar navigation animation issues
• ui: Restore re-sizable columns for secrets and namespaces tables.
• ui: Update DR operation token generation to accept a primary root token for authentication.
• ui: Update KV max_version validation to disallow negative values.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• sdk/helpers/docker: Migrate docker helpers from github.com/docker/docker to github.com/moby/moby. This was necessary as github.com/docker/docker is no longer maintained. Resolves GHSA-x744-4wpc-v9h2 and GHSA-pxq6-2prw-chj9.

SECURITY:

• Upgrade cloudflare/circl to v1.6.3 to resolve CVE-2026-1229
• Upgrade filippo.io/edwards25519 to v1.1.1 to resolve GO-2026-4503
• api/auth/gcp: Update go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk to fix CVE-2026-39883.
• api/auth: Update github.com/go-jose/go-jose to fix security vulnerability CVE-2026-34986 and GHSA-78h2-9frx-2jm8.
• auth/aws: fix an issue where a user may be able to bypass authentication to Vault due to incorrect caching of the AWS client
• auth/cert: ensure that the certificate being renewed matches the certificate attached to the session.
• core: Correctly remove any Vault tokens from the Authorization header when this header is forwarded to plugin backends. The header will only be forwarded if "Authorization" is explicitly included in the list of passthrough request headers.
• core: Resolve GO-2026-4518 and GHSA-jqcq-xjh3-6g23 by upgrading to github.com/jackc/pgx/v5
• core: Update github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/ to fix security vulnerability GHSA-xmrv-pmrh-hhx2.
• core: Update github.com/go-jose/go-jose to fix security vulnerability CVE-2026-34986 and GHSA-78h2-9frx-2jm8.
• core: Update github.com/hashicorp/go-getter to fix security vulnerability GHSA-92mm-2pjq-r785.
• core: Update go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk to fix CVE-2026-39883.
• core: reject URL-encoded paths that do not specify a canonical path
• http: Added configurable max_token_header_size listener option (default 8 KB) to bound the size of authentication token headers (X-Vault-Token and Authorization: Bearer), preventing a potential denial-of-service attack via oversized header contents. The stdlib-level MaxHeaderBytes backstop is also now set on the HTTP server. Set max_token_header_size = -1 to disable the limit.
• sdk: Resolve GO-2026-4518 and GHSA-jqcq-xjh3-6g23 by upgrading to github.com/jackc/pgx/v5
• sdk: Update github.com/go-jose/go-jose to fix security vulnerability CVE-2026-34986 and GHSA-78h2-9frx-2jm8.
• ui: disable scarf analytics for ui builds
• vault/sdk: Upgrade cloudflare/circl to v1.6.3 to resolve CVE-2026-1229
• vault/sdk: Upgrade go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk to v1.40.0 to resolve GO-2026-4394
• Update github.com/dvsekhvalnov/jose2go to fix security vulnerability CVE-2025-63811.
• go: update to golang/x/crypto to v0.45.0 to resolve GHSA-f6x5-jh6r-wrfv, GHSA-j5w8-q4qc-rx2x, GO-2025-4134 and GO-2025-4135.

CHANGES:

• secrets/ldap (enterprise): Static roles will be migrated from a plugin-managed queue to the Vault Enterprise Rotation Manager system. Static role migration progress can be checked and managed through a new static-migration endpoint. See the LDAP documentation for more details on this process.
• audit: A new top-level key called supplemental_audit_data can now appear within audit entries of type "response" within the request and response data structures. These new fields can contain data that further describe the request/response data and are mainly used for non-JSON based requests and responses to help auditing. The audit-non-hmac-request-keys and audit-non-hmac-response-keys apply to keys within supplemental_audit_data to remove the HMAC of the field values if so desired.
• auth/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.23.1
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.24.0
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.23.0
• auth/gcp: Update plugin to v0.23.1
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.26.1
• auth/kerberos: Update plugin to v0.17.1
• auth/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.24.1
• auth/oci: Update plugin to v0.21.1
• auth/saml: Update plugin to v0.8.1
• core/managed-keys (enterprise): The response to API endpoint GET sys/managed-keys/:type/:name now returns an array of string values for key usages, rather than an array of integer values. The strings used are 'encrypt' (1), 'decrypt' (2), 'sign' (3), 'verify' (4), 'wrap' (5), 'unwrap' (6), 'generate_random' (7), and 'mac' (8).
• core: Bump Go version to 1.26.2
• core: Vault now rejects paths that are not canonical, such as paths containing double slashes (path//to/resource)
• core: bump github.com/hashicorp/cap to v0.12.0
• core: secondary DR requests can now be authenticated using a root token generated on the primary.
• core: sys/generate-root and sys/replication/dr/secondary/generate-operation-token endpoints are now authenticated by default, with the old unauthenticated behaviour enabled by setting the new HCL config key enable_unauthenticated_access to include the value "generate-root" or "generate-operation-token" respectively.
• core: sys/rekey endpoints are now authenticated by default, with the old unauthenticated behaviour enabled by setting the new HCL config key enable_unauthenticated_access to include the value "rekey".
• database/couchbase: Update plugin to v0.16.1
• database/elasticsearch: Update plugin to v0.20.1
• database/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.17.1
• database/redis-elasticache: Update plugin to v0.9.1
• database/redis: Update plugin to v0.8.1
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.16.0
• license utilization reporting (enterprise): Manual reporting bundles generated by vault operator utilization have a changed format. Notably they contain an array of snapshot_records instead of snapshots. The decoded_snapshot field in each record contains the human-readable data that was previously in the snapshots array.
• mfa/duo: Upgrade duo_api_golang client to 0.2.0 to include the new Duo certificate authorities
• packaging: Container images are now exported using a compressed OCI image layout.
• packaging: UBI container images are now built on the UBI 10 minimal image.
• secrets/ad: Update plugin to v0.22.1
• secrets/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.22.1
• secrets/azure: Update azure enterprise secrets plugin to include static roles.
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.25.1+ent. Improves retry handling during Azure application and service principal creation to reduce transient failures.
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.26.1+ent
• secrets/gcp: Update plugin to v0.24.0
• secrets/gcpkms: Update plugin to v0.23.0
• secrets/keymgmt: Update plugin to v0.19.0+ent
• secrets/kmip: Update plugin to v0.20.0
• secrets/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.13.1
• secrets/kv: Update plugin to v0.26.2
• secrets/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.17.1
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.18.0
• secrets/pki: sign-verbatim endpoints no longer ignore basic constraints extension in CSRs, using them in generated certificates if isCA=false or returning an error if isCA=true
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.14.1
• secure-plugin-api: Update to v0.2.0
• storage: Upgrade aerospike client library to v8.
• ui/secrets: Secrets engines url paths renamed from '/secrets' to '/secrets-engines'
• ui: Remove ability to bulk delete secrets engines from the list view.

FEATURES:

• PKI External CA (Enterprise): A new plugin that provides the ability to acquire PKI certificates from Public CA providers through the ACME protocol
• IBM PAO License Integration: Added IBM PAO license support, allowing usage of Vault Enterprise with an IBM PAO license key. A new configuration stanza license_entitlement is required in the Vault config to use an IBM license. For more details, see the License documentation.
• KMIP Bring Your Own CA: Add new API to manage multiple CAs for client verification and make it possible to import external CAs.
• LDAP Secrets Engine Enterprise Plugin: Add the new LDAP Secrets Engine Enterprise plugin. This enterprise version adds support for self-managed static roles and Rotation Manager support for automatic...

SECURITY:

• Upgrade cloudflare/circl to v1.6.3 to resolve CVE-2026-1229
• Upgrade filippo.io/edwards25519 to v1.1.1 to resolve GO-2026-4503
• vault/sdk: Upgrade cloudflare/circl to v1.6.3 to resolve CVE-2026-1229
• vault/sdk: Upgrade go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk to v1.40.0 to resolve GO-2026-4394

CHANGES:

• core: Bump Go version to 1.25.7
• mfa/duo: Upgrade duo_api_golang client to 0.2.0 to include the new Duo certificate authorities
• ui: Remove ability to bulk delete secrets engines from the list view.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core/seal: Enhance sys/seal-backend-status to provide more information about seal backends.
• secrets/kmip (Enterprise): Obey configured best_effort_wal_wait_duration when forwarding kmip requests.
• secrets/pki (enterprise): Return the POSTPKIOperation capability within SCEP GetCACaps endpoint for better legacy client support.

BUG FIXES:

• core (enterprise): Buffer the POST body on binary paths to allow re-reading on non-logical forwarding attempts. Addresses an issue for SCEP, EST and CMPv2 certificate issuances with slow replication of entities
• core/identity (enterprise): Fix excessive logging when updating existing aliases
• core/managed-keys (enterprise): client credentials should not be required when using Azure Managed Identities in managed keys.
• plugins (enterprise): Fix bug where requests to external plugins that modify storage weren't populating the X-Vault-Index response header.
• secrets (pki): Allow issuance of certificates without the server_flag key usage from SCEP, EST and CMPV2 protocols.
• secrets/pki (enterprise): Address cache invalidation issues with CMPv2 on performance standby nodes.
• secrets/pki (enterprise): Address issues using SCEP on performance standby nodes failing due to configuration invalidation issues along with errors writing to storage
• secrets/pki (enterprise): Modify the SCEP GetCACaps endpoint to dynamically reflect the configured encryption and digest algorithms.
• secrets/pki: The root/sign-intermediate endpoint should not fail when provided a CSR with a basic constraint extension containing isCa set to true
• secrets/pki: allow glob-style DNS names in alt_names.

February 05, 2026

SECURITY:

auth/cert: ensure that the certificate being renewed matches the certificate attached to the session.

CHANGES:

core: Bump Go version to 1.25.6

FEATURES:

UI: Hashi-Built External Plugin Support: Recognize and support Hashi-built plugins when run as external binaries

IMPROVEMENTS:

core/managed-keys (enterprise): Allow GCP managed keys to leverage workload identity federation credentials
sdk: Add alias_metadata to tokenutil fields that auth method roles use.
secret-sync (enterprise): Added telemetry counters for reconciliation loop operations, including the number of corrections detected, retry attempts, and operation outcomes (success or failure with internal/external cause labels).
secret-sync (enterprise): Added telemetry counters for sync/unsync operations with status breakdown by destination type, and exposed operation counters in the destinations list API response.

BUG FIXES:

agent: Fix Vault Agent discarding cached tokens on transient server errors instead of retrying
core (enterprise): Fix crash when seal HSM is disconnected
default-auth: Fix issue when specifying "root" explicitly in Default Auth UI
identity: Fix issue where Vault may consume more memory than intended under heavy authentication load.
secrets/pki (enterprise): Fix SCEP related digest errors when requests contained compound octet strings
ui: Fixes login form so ?with= query param correctly displays only the specified mount when multiple mounts of the same auth type are configured with listing_visibility="unauth"
ui: Reverts Kubernetes CA Certificate auth method configuration form field type to file selector

1.21.2

January 07, 2026

CHANGES:

• auth/oci: bump plugin to v0.20.1
• core: Bump Go version to 1.25.5
• packaging: Container images are now exported using a compressed OCI image layout.
• packaging: UBI container images are now built on the UBI 10 minimal image.
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.25.1+ent. Improves retry handling during Azure application and service principal creation to reduce transient failures.
• storage: Upgrade aerospike client library to v8.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: check rotation manager queue every 5 seconds instead of 10 seconds to improve responsiveness
• go: update to golang/x/crypto to v0.45.0 to resolve GHSA-f6x5-jh6r-wrfv, GHSA-j5w8-q4qc-rx2x, GO-2025-4134 and GO-2025-4135.
• rotation: Ensure rotations for shared paths only execute on the Primary cluster's active node. Ensure rotations for local paths execute on the cluster-local active node.
• sdk/rotation: Prevent rotation attempts on read-only storage.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Added support for a boolean force_delete flag (default: false). When set to true, this flag allows deletion of a destination even if its associations cannot be unsynced. This option should be used only as a last-resort deletion mechanism, as any secrets already synced to the external provider will remain orphaned and require manual cleanup.
• secrets/pki: Avoid loading issuer information multiple times per leaf certificate signing.

BUG FIXES:

• core/activitylog (enterprise): Resolve a stability issue where Vault Enterprise could encounter a panic during month-end billing activity rollover.
• http: skip JSON limit parsing on cluster listener.
• quotas: Vault now protects plugins with ResolveRole operations from panicking on quota creation.
• replication (enterprise): fix rare panic due to race when enabling a secondary with Consul storage.
• rotation: Fix a bug where a performance secondary would panic if a write was made to a local mount.
• secret-sync (enterprise): Improved unsync error handling by treating cases where the destination no longer exists as successful.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Corrected a bug where the deletion of the latest KV-V2 secret version caused the associated external secret to be deleted entirely. The sync job now implements a version fallback mechanism to find and sync the highest available active version, ensuring continuity and preventing the unintended deletion of the external secret resource.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Fix issue where secrets were not properly un-synced after destination config changes.
• secrets-sync (enterprise): Fix issue where sync store deletion could be attempted when sync is disabled.
• ui/pki: Fix handling of values that contain commas in list fields like crl_distribution_points.

1.21.1

November 20, 2025

SECURITY:

• auth/aws: fix an issue where a user may be able to bypass authentication to Vault due to incorrect caching of the AWS client
• ui: disable scarf analytics for ui builds

CHANGES:

• auth/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.23.1
• auth/saml: Update plugin to v0.7.0
• auth/saml: Update plugin to v0.7.1, which adds the environment variable VAULT_SAML_DENY_INTERNAL_URLS to allow prevention of idp_metadata_url, idp_sso_url, or acs_urls fields from containing URLs that resolve to internal IP addresses
• core: Bump Go version to 1.25.4
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.25.0+ent
• secrets/pki: sign-verbatim endpoints no longer ignore basic constraints extension in CSRs, using them in generated certificates if isCA=false or returning an error if isCA=true

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Update github.com/dvsekhvalnov/jose2go to fix security vulnerability CVE-2025-63811.
• api: Added sudo-permissioned sys/reporting/scan endpoint which will output a set of files containing information about Vault state to the location specified by the reporting_scan_directory config item.
• auth/ldap: Require non-empty passwords on login command to prevent unauthenticated access to Vault.
• core/metrics: Reading and listing from a snapshot are now tracked via the vault.route.read-snapshot.{mount_point} and vault.route.list-snapshot.{mount_point} metrics.
• license utilization reporting (enterprise): Add metrics for the number of issued PKI certificates.
• policies: add warning about list comparison when using allowed_parameters or denied_parameters
• secret-sync: add parallelization support to sync and unsync operations for secret-key granularity associations
• secrets/pki: Include the certificate's AuthorityKeyID in response fields for API endpoints that issue, sign, or fetch certs.
• sys (enterprise): Add sys/billing/certificates API endpoint to retrieve the number of issued PKI certificates.
• ui/activity (enterprise): Add clarifying text to explain the "Initial Usage" column will only have timestamps for clients initially used after upgrading to version 1.21
• ui/activity (enterprise): Allow manual querying of client usage if there is a problem retrieving the license start time.
• ui/activity (enterprise): Reduce requests to the activity export API by only fetching new data when the dashboard initially loads or is manually refreshed.
• ui/activity (enterprise): Support filtering months dropdown by ISO timestamp or display value.
• ui/activity: Display total instead of new monthly clients for HCP managed clusters
• ui/pki: Adds support to configure server_flag, client_flag, code_signing_flag, and email_protection_flag parameters for creating/updating a role.

BUG FIXES:

• activity (enterprise): sys/internal/counters/activity outputs the correct mount type when called from a non root namespace
• auth/approle (enterprise): Role parameter alias_metadata now populates alias custom metadata field instead of alias metadata.
• auth/aws (enterprise): Role parameter alias_metadata now populates alias custom metadata field instead of alias metadata.
• auth/cert (enterprise): Role parameter alias_metadata now populates alias custom metadata field instead of alias metadata.
• auth/github (enterprise): Role parameter alias_metadata now populates alias custom metadata field instead of alias metadata.
• auth/ldap (enterprise): Role parameter alias_metadata now populates alias custom metadata field instead of alias metadata.
• auth/okta (enterprise): Role parameter alias_metadata now populates alias custom metadata field instead of alias metadata.
• auth/radius (enterprise): Role parameter alias_metadata now populates alias custom metadata field instead of alias metadata.
• auth/scep (enterprise): Role parameter alias_metadata now populates alias custom metadata field instead of alias metadata.
• auth/userpass (enterprise): Role parameter alias_metadata now populates alias custom metadata field instead of alias metadata.
• auth: fixed panic when supplying integer as a lease_id in renewal.
• core/rotation: avoid shifting timezones by ignoring cron.SpecSchedule
• core: interpret all new rotation manager rotation_schedules as UTC to avoid inadvertent use of tz-local
• secrets/azure: Ensure proper installation of the Azure enterprise secrets plugin.
• secrets/pki: Return error when issuing/signing certs whose NotAfter is before NotBefore or whose validity period isn't contained by the CA's.
• ui (enterprise): Fix KV v2 not displaying secrets in namespaces.
• ui (enterprise): Fixes login form so input renders correctly when token is a preferred login method for a namespace.
• ui/pki: Fixes certificate parsing of the key_usage extension so details accurately reflect certificate values.
• ui/pki: Fixes creating and updating a role so basic_constraints_valid_for_non_ca is correctly set.
• ui: Fix KV v2 metadata list request failing for policies without a trailing slash in the path.
• ui: Resolved a regression that prevented users with create and update permissions on KV v1 secrets from opening the edit view. The UI now correctly recognizes these capabilities and allows editing without requiring full read access.
• ui: Update LDAP accounts checked-in table to display hierarchical LDAP libraries
• ui: Update LDAP library count to reflect the total number of nodes instead of number of directories