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  Key updates for  Vault 1.15.0
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# Vault 1.15.0 release notes

**GA date:** 2023-09-27

@include 'release-notes/intro.mdx'

## Known issues and breaking changes

| Version         | Issue                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|-----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1.15.0+         | [Vault no longer reports rollback metrics by mountpoint](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#rollback-metrics)                                                                                                                |
| 1.15.0          | [Panic in AWS auth method during IAM-based login](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#panic-in-aws-auth-method-during-iam-based-login)                                                                                        |
| 1.15.0+         | [UI Collapsed navbar does not allow certain click events](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#ui-collapsed-navbar)                                                                                                            |
| 1.15            | [Vault file audit devices do not honor SIGHUP signal to reload](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#file-audit-devices-do-not-honor-sighup-signal-to-reload)                                                                  |
| 1.15.0 - 1.15.1 | [Vault storing references to ephemeral sub-loggers leading to unbounded memory consumption](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#vault-is-storing-references-to-ephemeral-sub-loggers-leading-to-unbounded-memory-consumption) |
| 1.15.0 - 1.15.1 | [Internal error when vault policy in namespace does not exist](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#internal-error-when-vault-policy-in-namespace-does-not-exist)                                                              |
| 1.15.0+         | [Sublogger levels not adjusted on reload](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#sublogger-levels-unchanged-on-reload)                                                                                                           |
| 1.15.0+         | [URL change for KV v2 plugin](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#kv2-url-change)                                                                                                                                             |
| 1.15.1          | [Fatal error during expiration metrics gathering causing Vault crash](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#fatal-error-during-expiration-metrics-gathering-causing-vault-crash)                                                |
| 1.15.0 - 1.15.4 | [Audit devices could log raw data despite configuration](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#audit-devices-could-log-raw-data-despite-configuration)                                                                          |
| 1.15.0 - 1.15.5 | [Deadlock can occur on performance secondary clusters with many mounts](/vault/docs/upgrading/upgrade-to-1.15.x#deadlock-can-occur-on-performance-secondary-clusters-with-many-mounts)

## Vault companion updates

Companion updates are Vault updates that live outside the main Vault binary.

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>Release</th>
      <th style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>Update</th>
      <th style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>Description</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>

  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Vault Secrets Operator
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>GA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Run the Vault Secrets Operator (v0.3.0) on Red Hat OpenShift.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/platform/k8s/vso/openshift">Vault Secrets Operator</a>
    </td>
  </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

## Core updates

Follow the learn more links for more information, or browse the list of
[Vault tutorials updated to highlight changes for the most recent GA release](/vault/tutorials/new-release).

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>Release</th>
      <th style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>Update</th>
      <th style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>Description</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>

  <tr>
    <td rowSpan={2} style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Vault Agent
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>ENHANCED</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Updated to use the latest Azure SDK version and Workload Identity
      Federation (WIF).
      <br /><br />
      Learn more:&nbsp;
      <a href="/vault/docs/agent-and-proxy/agent">What is Vault Agent?</a>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>GA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Fetch secrets directly into your application as environment variables.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/agent-and-proxy/agent/process-supervisor">Process Supervisor Mode</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      External plugins
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>BETA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Run external plugins in their own container with native container platform
      controls.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/plugins/containerized-plugins">Containerize Vault plugins</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Eventing
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>BETA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Subscribe to notifications for various events in Vault. Includes support
      for filtering, permissions, and cluster configurations with K-V secrets.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/concepts/events">Events</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td rowSpan={2} style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
    Vault GUI
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>GA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      New LDAP secrets engine GUI.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/configuration/ui">Vault UI guide</a>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>ENHANCED</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      &bull; New landing page dashboard.<br />
      &bull; View secrets you have read access to under your directory.<br />
      &bull; View diffs between previous and new secret versions.<br />
      &bull; Copy and paste secret paths from the GUI to the Vault CLI or API.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/configuration/ui">Vault UI guide</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td rowSpan={2} style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Secrets management
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>GA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Connect to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud SQL instances using native
      IAM credentials.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more:&nbsp;
      <a href="/vault/docs/sync/gcpsm">Google Cloud Platform Secret Manager</a>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>ENHANCED</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Improved TTL management for database credentials with configurable
      credential rotation.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/api-docs/secret">Secrets engines</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  </tbody>
</table>

## Enterprise updates

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>Release</th>
      <th style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>Update</th>
      <th style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>Description</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>

  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Secrets syncing
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>BETA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Sync Key/Value (KV) v2 data between Vault and secrets managers from AWS,
      Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GitHub, and Vercel.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/sync">Secrets Sync</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>GA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Control Vault PKI issued certificates with the Certificate Issuance
      External Policy Service (CIEPS) to ensure consistency and compliance to
      enterprise standards.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/secrets/pki/cieps">Certificate Issuance External Policy Service (CIEPS)</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Replication
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>ENHANCED</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Holistic improvements to cluster replication including problem detection
      and remediation.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/enterprise/replication">Vault Enterprise replication</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Seal High Availability
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>BETA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Enables Vault administrators to configure multiple KMS for seal keys to
      ensure Vault availability in the event a single KMS becomes unavailable.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/configuration/seal/seal-ha">Seal wrap</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Authentication
    </td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle', textAlign: 'center'}}>GA</td>
    <td style={{verticalAlign: 'middle'}}>
      Authenticate to Vault with your SAML identity provider.
      <br /><br />
      Learn more: <a href="/vault/docs/auth/saml">SAML auth method</a>
    </td>
  </tr>

  </tbody>
</table>

## Feature deprecations and EOL

Deprecated in 1.15 | Retired in 1.15
------------------ | ---------------
None | None

@include 'release-notes/deprecation-note.mdx'
