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Vault v1.5.0 Release Notes

  • July 21st, 2020

    🔄 CHANGES:

    • 🔊 audit: Token TTL and issue time are now provided in the auth portion of audit logs. [GH-9091]
    • 0️⃣ auth/gcp: Changes the default name of the entity alias that gets created to be the role ID for both IAM and GCE authentication. [GH-99]
    • 🔧 core: Remove the addition of newlines to parsed configuration when using integer/boolean values [GH-8928]
    • cubbyhole: Reject reads and writes to an empty ("") path. [GH-8971]
    • 0️⃣ secrets/azure: Default password generation changed from uuid to cryptographically secure randomized string [GH-40]
    • 🚚 storage/gcs: The credentials_file config option has been removed. The GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable or default credentials may be used instead [GH-9424]
    • storage/raft: The storage configuration now accepts a new max_entry_size config that will limit the total size in bytes of any entry committed via raft. It defaults to "1048576" (1MiB). [GH-9027]
    • token: Token creation with custom token ID via id will no longer allow periods (.) as part of the input string. The final generated token value may contain periods, such as the s. prefix for service token indication. [GH-8646]
    • token: Token renewals will now return token policies within the token_policies , identity policies within identity_policies, and the full policy set within policies. [GH-8535]
    • ⚡️ go: Updated Go version to 1.14.4

    🔋 FEATURES:

    • Monitoring: We have released a Splunk App [9] 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 on Enterprise.
    • 🌐 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.
    • KMIP: Add support for signing client certificates requests (CSRs) rather than having them be generated entirely within Vault.

    👌 IMPROVEMENTS:

    • audit: Replication status requests are no longer audited. [GH-8877]
    • audit: Added mount_type field to requests and responses. [GH-9167]
    • 🌐 auth/aws: Add support for Web Identity credentials [GH-7738]
    • 🔌 auth/jwt: Support users that are members of more than 200 groups on Azure [GH-120]
    • 🔌 auth/kerberos: Support identities without userPrincipalName [GH-44]
    • 🔌 auth/kubernetes: Allow disabling iss validation [GH-91]
    • 0️⃣ auth/kubernetes: Try reading the ca.crt and TokenReviewer JWT from the default service account [GH-83]
    • 👍 cli: Support reading TLS parameters from file for the vault operator raft join command. [GH-9060]
    • 🔊 cli: Add a new subcommand, vault monitor, for tailing server logs in the console. [GH-8477]
    • 🏗 core: Add the Go version used to build a Vault binary to the server message output. [GH-9078]
    • 🔧 core: Added Password Policies for user-configurable password generation [GH-8637]
    • core: New telemetry metrics covering token counts, token creation, KV secret counts, lease creation. [GH-9239] [GH-9250] [GH-9244] [GH-9052]
    • ⚡️ physical/gcs: The storage backend now uses a dedicated client for HA lock updates to prevent lock table update failures when flooded by other client requests. [GH-9424]
    • ⚡️ physical/spanner: The storage backend now uses a dedicated client for HA lock updates to prevent lock table update failures when flooded by other client requests. [GH-9423]
    • 🔌 plugin: Add SDK method, Sys.ReloadPlugin, and CLI command, vault plugin reload, for reloading plugins. [GH-8777]
    • 🔌 plugin (enterprise): Add a scope field to plugin reload, which when global, reloads the plugin anywhere in a cluster. [GH-9347]
    • 👍 sdk/framework: Support accepting TypeFloat parameters over the API [GH-8923]
    • ⚡️ secrets/aws: Add iam_groups parameter to role create/update [GH-8811]
    • 🔌 secrets/database: Add static role rotation for MongoDB Atlas database plugin [GH-11]
    • 🔌 secrets/database: Add static role rotation for MSSQL database plugin [GH-9062]
    • secrets/database: Allow InfluxDB to use insecure TLS without cert bundle [GH-8778]
    • 🔌 secrets/gcp: Support BigQuery dataset ACLs in absence of IAM endpoints [GH-78]
    • secrets/pki: Allow 3072-bit RSA keys [GH-8343]
    • secrets/ssh: Add a CA-mode role option to specify signing algorithm [GH-9096]
    • 🔧 secrets/ssh: The Vault SSH Helper can now be configured to reference a mount in a namespace [GH-44]
    • secrets/transit: Transit requests that make use of keys now include a new field key_version in their responses [GH-9100]
    • secrets/transit: Improving transit batch encrypt and decrypt latencies [GH-8775]
    • sentinel: Add a sentinel config section, and "additional_enabled_modules", a list of Sentinel modules that may be imported in addition to the defaults.
    • ⚡️ ui: Update TTL picker styling on SSH secret engine [GH-8891]
    • 🔧 ui: Only render the JWT input field of the Vault login form on mounts configured for JWT auth [GH-8952]
    • 💻 ui: Add replication dashboards. Improve replication management workflows. [GH-8705].
    • ⚡️ ui: Update alert banners to match design systems black text. [GH-9463].

    🐛 BUG FIXES:

    • 0️⃣ auth/oci: Fix issue where users of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) auth method could not authenticate when the plugin backend was mounted at a non-default path. [GH-7]
    • 🐎 core: Extend replicated cubbyhole fix in 1.4.0 to cover case where a performance primary is also a DR primary [GH-9148]
    • replication (enterprise): Use the PrimaryClusterAddr if it's been set
    • seal/awskms: fix AWS KMS auto-unseal when AWS_ROLE_SESSION_NAME not set [GH-9416]
    • 📇 sentinel: fix panic due to concurrent map access when rules iterate over metadata maps
    • 🐎 secrets/aws: Fix issue where performance standbys weren't able to generate STS credentials after an IAM access key rotation in AWS and root IAM credential update in Vault [GH-9186]
    • secrets/database: Fix issue where rotating root database credentials while Vault's storage backend is unavailable causes Vault to lose access to the database [GH-8782]
    • 🐎 secrets/database: Fix issue that prevents performance standbys from connecting to databases after a root credential rotation [GH-9129]
    • 📜 secrets/database: Fix parsing of multi-line PostgreSQL statements [GH-8512]
    • ⚡️ secrets/gcp: Fix issue were updates were not being applied to the token_scopes of a roleset. [GH-90]
    • 🔖 secrets/kv: Return the value of delete_version_after when reading kv/config, even if it is set to the default. [GH-42]
    • 💻 ui: Add Toggle component into core addon so it is available in KMIP and other Ember Engines.[GH-8913]
    • 💻 ui: Disallow max versions value of large than 9999999999999999 on kv2 secrets engine. [GH-9242]
    • ⬆️ ui: Add and upgrade missing dependencies to resolve a failure with make static-dist. [GH-9277]