HashiCorp released Vault 1.6 on November 11th, introducing new features and enhancements for cloud provider key lifecycle management, GitHub Actions, data transformation, usage metrics, integrated storage, and password policies for databases. The Key Management Secrets Engine is a Technical Preview feature designed to help with cloud provider key lifecycle management, while the Tokenize Data with Transform Secrets Engine tutorial demonstrates a new method introduced in Vault 1.6 for replacing sensitive data with unique tokens. Vaults UI now supports creating transformations, roles, templates, and alphabets for the Transform secrets engine, and the Vault Usage Metrics tutorial introduces the Vault Metrics dashboard to help discover active client count and historical client counts.