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page_title: 1.13.0
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This page contains release notes for Vault 1.13.0
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# Vault 1.13.0 Release Notes
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**Software Release date:** March 1, 2023
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**Summary:** Vault Release 1.13.0 offers features and enhancements that improve
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the user experience while solving critical issues previously encountered by our
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customers. We are providing an overview of improvements in this set of release
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notes.
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We encourage you to [upgrade](/vault/docs/upgrading) to the latest release of
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Vault to take advantage of the new benefits provided. With this latest release,
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we offer solutions to critical feature gaps that were identified previously.
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Please refer to the
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[Changelog](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#1130-rc1)
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within the Vault release for further information on product improvements,
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including a comprehensive list of bug fixes.
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Some of these enhancements and changes in this release include the following:
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- **PKI improvements:**
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- **Cross Cluster PKI Certificate Revocation:** Introducing a new unified
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OCSP responder and CRL builder that enables a certificate revocations and
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CRL view across clusters for a given PKI mount.
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- **PKI UI Beta:** New UI introducing cross-signing flow, overview page,
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roles and keys view.
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- **Health Checks:** Provide a health overview of PKI mounts for proactive
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actions and troubleshooting.
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- **Command Line:** Simplified CLI to discover, rotate issuers and related
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commands for PKI mounts
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- **Azure Auth Improvements:**
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- **Rotate-root support:** Add the ability to rotate the root account's
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client secret defined in the auth method's configuration via the new
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`rotate-root` endpoint.
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- **Managed Identities authentication:** The auth method now allows any Azure
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resource that supports managed identities to authenticate with Vault.
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- **VMSS Flex authentication:** Add support for Virtual Machine Scale Set
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(VMSS) Flex authentication.
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- **GCP Secrets Impersonated Account Support:** Add support for GCP service
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account impersonation, allowing callers to generate a GCP access token without
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requiring Vault to store or retrieve a GCP service account key for each role.
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- **Managed Keys in Transit Engine:** Support for offloading Transit Key
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operations to HSMs/external KMS.
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- **KMIP Secret Engine Enhancements:** Implemented Asymmetric Key Lifecycle
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Server and Advanced Cryptographic Server profiles. Added support for RSA keys
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and operations such as: MAC, MAC Verify, Sign, Sign Verify, RNG Seed and RNG
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Retrieve.
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- **Vault as a SSM:** Support is planned for an upcoming Vault PKCS#11 Provider
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version to include mechanisms for encryption, decryption, signing and
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signature verification for AES and RSA keys.
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- **Replication (enterprise):** We fixed a bug that could cause a cluster to
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wind up in a permanent merkle-diff/merkle-sync loop and never enter
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stream-wals, particularly in cases of high write loads on the primary cluster.
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- **Share Secrets in Independent Namespaces (enterprise):** You can now add
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users from namespaces outside a namespace hierarchy to a group in a given
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namespace hierarchy. For Vault Agent, you can now grant it access to secrets
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outside the namespace where it authenticated, and reduce the number of Agents
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you need to run.
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- **User Lockout:** Vault now supports configuration to lock out users when they
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have consecutive failed login attempts.
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- **Event System (Alpha):** Vault has a new experimental event system. Events
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are currently only generated on writes to the KV secrets engine, but external
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plugins can also be updated to start generating events.
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- **Kubernetes authentication plugin bug fix:** Ensures a consistent TLS
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configuration for all k8s API requests. This fixes a bug where it was possible
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for the http.Client's Transport to be missing the necessary root CAs to ensure
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that all TLS connections between the auth engine and the Kubernetes API were
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validated against the configured set of CA certificates.
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- **Kubernetes Secretes Engine on Vault UI:** Introducing Kubernetes secret
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engine support on the UI
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- **Client Count UI improvements:** Combining current month and previous history
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into one dashboard
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- **OCSP Support in the TLS Certificate Auth Method:** The auth method now can
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check for revoked certificates using the OCSP protocol.
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- **UI Wizard removal:** The UI Wizard has been removed from the UI since the
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information was occasionally out-of-date and did not align with the latest
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changes. A new and enhanced UI experience is planned in a future release.
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- **Vault Agent improvements:**
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- Auto-auth introduced `token_file` method which reads an existing token from
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a file. The token file method is designed for development and testing. It
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is not suitable for production deployment.
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- Listeners for the Vault Agent can define a role set to `metrics_only` so
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that a service can be configured to listen on a particular port to collect
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metrics.
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- Vault Agent can read configurations from multiple files.
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- Users can specify the log file path using the `-log-file` command flag or
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`VAULT_LOG_FILE` environment variable. This is particularly useful when
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Vault Agent is running as a Windows service.
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- **OpenAPI-based Go & .NET Client Libraries (Public Beta):** Use the new Go &
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.NET client libraries to interact with the Vault API from your applications.
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- [OpenAPI-based Go client library](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-client-go/)
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- [OpenAPI-based .NET client library](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-client-dotnet/)
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## Known issues
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When Vault is configured without a TLS certificate on the TCP listener, the Vault UI may throw an error that blocks you from performing operational tasks.
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The error message: `Q.randomUUID is not a function`
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<Note>
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Refer to this [Knowledge Base article](https://support.hashicorp.com/hc/en-us/articles/14512496697875) for more details and a workaround.
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</Note>
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The fix for this UI issue is coming in the Vault 1.13.1 release.
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@include 'perf-standby-token-create-forwarding-failure.mdx'
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## Feature Deprecations and EOL
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Please refer to the [Deprecation Plans and Notice](/vault/docs/deprecation) page
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for up-to-date information on feature deprecations and plans. A [Feature
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Deprecation FAQ](/vault/docs/deprecation/faq) page addresses questions about
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decisions made about Vault feature deprecations.
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