The Replit team has announced a new feature to manage secrets in their platform, aimed at improving security and usability for users building applications such as chatbots, web applications, and games. The new feature is designed to be easy to use for learners and productive for advanced users, with a simple GUI that allows adding multiline secret values and hiding sensitive information by default. The primary purpose of the feature is to hide secrets, but it also has potential uses in configuring different environments for repls and unlocking features such as retaining key s when someone forks a repl with secrets. Users can find more information about the new feature in the Replit documentation.