HashiCorp has released Vault 1.12, a significant update that improves core workflows and adds new features such as Redis and Amazon ElastiCache secrets engines, a new PKCS#11 provider, and enhanced Transform secrets engine usability. The release focuses on improving Vault's core workflows and making key features production-ready. Key features include support for Transparent Data Encryption for Oracle, PKI revocation improvements, and the addition of a new database secrets engine that supports the generation of static and dynamic user roles. Additionally, Vault 1.12 introduces significant changes to the Terraform provider, Vault usage metrics, and licensing behavior, and provides improved PKCS#11 provider capabilities, including support for Transparent Data Encryption for Oracle and key management with cloud KMS systems. The release also includes numerous other features, workflow enhancements, general improvements, and bug fixes.