Overview

The Vault 1.18.x upgrade guide contains information on deprecations, important or breaking changes, and remediation recommendations for anyone upgrading from Vault 1.17. Please read carefully.

Important changes

Activity Log Changes

Default Activity Log Querying Period

The field default_report_months can no longer be configured or read. Any previously set values will be ignored by the system.

Attempts to modify default_report_months through the /sys/internal/counters/config endpoint, will result in the following warning from Vault:

WARNING! The following warnings were returned from Vault:

  * default_report_months is deprecated: defaulting to billing start time

The current_billing_period toggle for /sys/internal/counters/activity is also deprecated, as this will be set true by default.

Attempts to set current_billing_period will result in the following warning from Vault:

WARNING! The following warnings were returned from Vault:

  * current_billing_period is deprecated; unless otherwise specified, all requests will default to the current billing period