Vault 1.3` has been released, offering various improvements and new features to enhance its capabilities in managing secrets, data encryption, identity management, and credential management for infrastructure and applications. The new release focuses on improving Vault's ability to serve as a platform for credential management workloads, such as Active Directory and Kubernetes, and support global multi-cloud operations with high performance and compliance-regulated workloads. Key features include `Entropy Augmentation` that allows Vault Enterprise to supplement its system entropy with external sources, `Improved Integrated Storage (Beta)` which improves the performance and stability of integrated storage, `Active Directory Check In / Check Out` for managing AD credentials, `Vault Debug` for gathering health metrics, `Path Filters` for controlling secret replication, `Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Integration` for supporting Oracle Cloud workloads, and other new features such as improved KMIP support, Stackdriver metrics sync, and P384 and AES128-GCM 96 encryption/decryption support. The release also includes significant upgrades and improvements to various components of Vault, making it a more robust and feature-rich tool for managing secrets and infrastructure.