Overview

This page contains the list of deprecations and important or breaking changes for Vault 1.2.5 compared to 1.2.4. Please read it carefully.

Known issues

Due to the known issues, we recommend skipping 1.2.5 and upgrading directly to 1.2.6.

Core binaries lacking Vault UI

Core binaries of Vault 1.5.1, 1.4.4, 1.3.8, and 1.2.5 were built without the Vault UI. Enterprise binaries are not affected.

AWS IAM authentication

The security updates added in Vault 1.5.1, 1.4.4, 1.3.8, and 1.2.5 include additional header checking during AWS IAM authentication. The default list of allowed headers doesn't include some that are commonly present, which may result in a login error of the form:

Cannot login using AWS-IAM: invalid request header: X-Amz-Security-Token

This issue affects 1.5.2, 1.4.5, 1.3.9, and 1.2.6 as well. It has been corrected in 1.5.3, 1.4.6, 1.3.10 and 1.2.7. The affected released versions can work around the issue by manually configuring the allowed header list, including all needed headers. A recommended configuration is shown below:

vault write auth/aws/config/client \
   allowed_sts_header_values="Content-Type" \
   allowed_sts_header_values="Content-Length" \
   allowed_sts_header_values="User-Agent" \
   allowed_sts_header_values="X-Amz-Date" \
   allowed_sts_header_values="Authorization" \
   allowed_sts_header_values="X-Amz-Security-Token" \
   allowed_sts_header_values="Host" \
   allowed_sts_header_values="X-Vault-Aws-Iam-Server-Id"