1.20.0

June 25, 2025

SECURITY:

• core: require a nonce when cancelling a rekey operation that was initiated within the last 10 minutes. [GH-30794]

CHANGES:

• UI: remove outdated and unneeded js string extensions [GH-29834]
• activity (enterprise): The sys/internal/counters/activity endpoint will return actual values for new clients in the current month.
• activity (enterprise): provided values for start_time and end_time in sys/internal/counters/activity are aligned to the corresponding billing period.
• activity: provided value for end_time in sys/internal/counters/activity is now capped at the end of the last completed month. [GH-30164]
• api: Update the default API client to check for the Retry-After header and, if it exists, wait for the specified duration before retrying the request. [GH-30887]
• auth/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.21.0 [GH-30810]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.20.2. Login requires resource_group_name, vm_name, and vmss_name to match token claims [GH-30052]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.20.3 [GH-30082]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.20.4 [GH-30543]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.21.0 [GH-30872]
• auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.21.1 [GH-31010]
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.20.1 [GH-30583]
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.21.0 [GH-30842]
• auth/gcp: Update plugin to v0.20.2 [GH-30081]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.23.2 [GH-30431]
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.24.1 [GH-30876]
• auth/kerberos: Update plugin to v0.15.0 [GH-30845]
• auth/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.22.1 [GH-30910]
• auth/oci: Update plugin to v0.19.0 [GH-30841]
• auth/saml: Update plugin to v0.6.0
• core: Bump Go version to 1.24.4.
• core: Verify that the client IP address extracted from an X-Forwarded-For header is a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address [GH-29774]
• database/couchbase: Update plugin to v0.14.0 [GH-30836]
• database/elasticsearch: Update plugin to v0.18.0 [GH-30796]
• database/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.15.0 [GH-30856]
• database/redis-elasticache: Update plugin to v0.7.0 [GH-30785]
• database/redis: Update plugin to v0.6.0 [GH-30797]
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.14.0 [GH-30748]
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.14.1 [GH-30868]
• logical/system: add ent stub for plugin catalog handling [GH-30890]
• quotas/rate-limit: Round up the Retry-After value to the nearest second when calculating the retry delay. [GH-30887]
• secrets/ad: Update plugin to v0.21.0 [GH-30819]
• secrets/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.20.0 [GH-30809]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.21.2 [GH-30037]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.21.3 [GH-30083]
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.22.0 [GH-30832]
• secrets/gcp: Update plugin to v0.21.2 [GH-29970]
• secrets/gcp: Update plugin to v0.21.3 [GH-30080]
• secrets/gcp: Update plugin to v0.22.0 [GH-30846]
• secrets/gcpkms: Update plugin to v0.21.0 [GH-30835]
• secrets/kubernetes: Update plugin to v0.11.0 [GH-30855]
• secrets/kv: Update plugin to v0.24.0 [GH-30826]
• secrets/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.15.0 [GH-30860]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.15.2 [GH-30079]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.15.4 [GH-30279]
• secrets/openldap: Update plugin to v0.16.0 [GH-30844]
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.12.0 [GH-30905]
• server: disable_mlock configuration option is now required for integrated storage and no longer has a default. If you are using the default value with integrated storage, you must now explicitly set disable_mlock to true or false or Vault server will fail to start. [GH-29974]
• ui/activity: Replaces mount and namespace attribution charts with a table to allow sorting client count data by namespace, mount_path, mount_type or number of clients for a selected month. [GH-30678]
• ui: Client count side nav link 'Vault Usage Metrics' renamed to 'Client Usage' [GH-30765]
• ui: Client counting "running total" charts now reflect new clients only [GH-30506]
• ui: Removed FormError component (not used) [GH-34699]
• ui: Selecting a different method in the login form no longer updates the /vault/auth?with= query parameter [GH-30500]
• ui: /vault/auth?with= query parameter now exclusively refers to the auth mount path and renders a simplified form [GH-30500]

FEATURES:

• Auto Irrevocable Lease Removal (Enterprise): Add the Vault Enterprise configuration param, remove_irrevocable_lease_after. When set to a non-zero value, this will automatically delete irrevocable leases after the configured duration exceeds the lease's expire time. The minimum duration allowed for this field is two days. [GH-30703]
• Development Cluster Configuration (Enterprise): Added development_cluster as a field to Vault's utilization reports. The field is configurable via HCL and indicates whether the cluster is being used in a development environment, defaults to false if not set. [GH-30659]
• Entity-based and collective rate limit quotas (Enterprise): Add new group_by field to the rate limit quota API to support different grouping modes.
• Login form customization (Enterprise): Adds support to choose a default and/or backup auth methods for the web UI login form to streamline the web UI login experience. [GH-30700]
• Plugin Downloads: Support automatically downloading official HashiCorp secret and auth plugins from releases.hashicorp.com (beta)
• SSH Key Signing Improvements (Enterprise): Add support for using managed keys to sign SSH keys in the SSH secrets engine.
• Secret Recovery from Snapshot (Enterprise): Adds a framework to load an integrated storage snapshot into Vault and read, list, and recover KV v1 and cubbyhole secrets from the snapshot. [GH-30739]
• UI Secrets Engines: TOTP secrets engine is now supported. [GH-29751]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• activity (enterprise): Added vault.client.billing_period.activity telemetry metric to emit information about the total number of distinct clients used in the current billing period.
• activity: mount_type was added to the API response of sys/internal/counters/activity [GH-30071]
• activity: mount_type was added to the API response of sys/internal/counters/activity
• api (enterprise): Added a new API, /sys/utilization-report, giving a snapshot overview of Vault's utilization at a high level.
• api/client: Add Cert auth method support. This allows the client to authenticate using a client certificate. [GH-29546]
• core (enterprise): Updated code and documentation to support FIPS 140-3 compliant algorithms.
• core (enterprise): allow a root token to relock a namespace locked by the Namespace API Lock feature.
• core (enterprise): report errors from the underlying seal when getting entropy.
• core (enterprise): update to FIPS 140-3 cryptographic module in the FIPS builds.
• core/metrics: added a new telemetry metric, vault.core.response_status_code, with two labels, code, and type, detailing the status codes of all responses to requests that Vault handles. [GH-30354]
• core: Improve memory use of path management for namespaces, auth methods, and secrets engines. Now Vault should handle larger numbers of namespaces and multiple instances of the same secrets engine or auth method more efficiently. [GH-31022]
• core: Updated code and documentation to support FIPS 140-3 compliant algorithms. [GH-30576]

DEPRECATIONS:

• api: Deprecated the /sys/internal/counters/tokens endpoint. Attempting to call this endpoint will return a 403 "unsupported path" exception. [GH-30561]
• core: deprecate duplicate attributes in HCL configuration files and policy definitions [GH-30386]

BUG FIXES:

• api/tokenhelper: Exec token_helper without a shell [GH-29653]
• auth/aws: fix a panic when a performance standby node attempts to write/update config. [GH-30039]
• auth/ldap: Fix a bug that does not properly delete users and groups by first converting their names to lowercase when case senstivity option is off. [GH-29922]
• auth/ldap: fix a panic when a performance standby node attempts to write/update config. [GH-30039]
• aws/secrets: Prevent vault from rejecting secret role configurations where no regions or endpoints are set [GH-29996]
• core (enterprise): add nil check before attempting to use Rotation Manager operations.
• core (enterprise): fix a bug where plugin automated root rotations would stop after seal/unseal operations
• core (enterprise): fix issue with errors being swallowed on failed HSM logins. core/managed-keys (enterprise): fix RSA encryption/decryption with OAEP on managed keys.
• core: Fix a bug that prevents certain loggers from writing to a log file. [GH-29917]
• core: Fix string contains check in Identity APIs to be case-insensitive. [GH-31045]