HashiCorp released Vault 1.8 with enhanced features and enhancements, including control groups that enforce additional authorization factors and troubleshoot server issues. The new version also introduced improved lease management, allowing Vault servers to stop attempting to revoke expired leases after a certain number of failed revocation attempts. Additionally, Vault Enterprise now autoloads the license as the server starts up, and there are tutorials available on HashiCorp Learn to help users explore these changes and learn more about control groups, troubleshooting irrevocable leases, and inspecting data in BoltDB.