Welcome to the CHANGELOG series, where we talk about the latest releases from HashiCorp, an IBM company.

CHANGELOG

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in Vault 1.19 and Terraform 1.11, including automatic rotation of root credentials, post-quantum cryptography, Terraform test enhancements, and write-only arguments for ephemeral values.

Podcast Notes
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/vault-enterprise-1-19-reduces-risk-encryption-updates-automated-root-rotation
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-1-11-ephemeral-values-managed-resources-write-only-arguments
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/resources/ephemeral

CHANGELOG - Vault 1.19 & Terraform 1.11

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss new releases like Vault and Nomad on IBM Z and LinuxONE, Nomad 1.10, and HCP Vault Radar as well as updated features to HCP Boundary and the Terraform Enterprise provider.

Podcast Notes
- https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-vault-self-managed-for-z-and-linuxone-and-ibm-nomad-self-managed-for-z-and-linuxone-generally-available
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/nomad-1-10-adds-dynamic-host-volumes-extended-oidc-support-and-more
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/products/vault/hcp-vault-radar
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/boundary/configure-ttl
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-tfe/releases/tag/v0.65.0

CHANGELOG - Nomad 1.10 & HCP Vault Radar

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in Terraform, Consul, and Boundary including a recently released Terraform MCP Server, transparent sessions in Boundary, and a simplified deployment architecture for Consul’s External Service Monitor.

Podcast Notes:
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs/tools/mcp-server
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.12.0
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/enterprise/releases/2025/v202504-1
- https://hashicorp.com/en/blog/consul-1-21-service-discovery-consul-kubernetes-openshift-4-17 
- https://hashicorp.com/en/blog/transparent-sessions-now-ga-in-hashicorp-boundary
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=eeOANluSqAE

CHANGELOG - Terraform MCP Server & Consul 1.21

Michael Kosir (developer advocate) and Meredith Duflock (product manager) discuss what's new in Vault 1.20, Terraform AWS Provider v6, Terraform Vault Provider v5, and HCP Waypoint including enhanced region support, ephemeral resources, rate limit quotes, and the general availability of HCP Waypoint Actions.

Podcast Notes:
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/hcp-waypoint-actions-now-ga
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vault/releases/tag/v5.0.0
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-aws-provider-6-0-now-generally-available
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/vault-enterprise-1-20-scep-usage-reporting-cloud-secret-imports


CHANGELOG - HCP Waypoint Actions & Vault 1.20

Michael Kosir (Developer Advocate) and Gautam Baghel (Partner Solutions Engineer) recap HashiDays: London and HashiDays: Singapore, discuss new features in HCP Terraform, HCP Vault Radar, and the release of MCP Servers for Vault and Vault Radar.

Podcast Notes:
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/conferences/hashidays
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/build-secure-ai-driven-workflows-with-new-terraform-and-vault-mcp-servers
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vault/private-dns
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/agents/agent-pools#scope-an-agent-pool-to-specific-projects
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOANluSqAE


CHANGELOG - HCP Terraform, Vault MCP Server, & Vault Radar MCP Server

Michael Kosir (Developer Advocate at HashiCorp) covers what's new in Terraform, Packer, and the upcoming conference season. Terraform Stacks in the command line, a Packer plugin registry migration, and a major version for the Terraform Google provider.

Podcast Notes:
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/important-update-official-packer-plugin-distribution-moving-to-releases-hashicorp-com/75972
- https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/releases/tag/v1.14.0
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.13.0
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-stacks-explained
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/releases/tag/v7.0.0
- https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/guides/version_7_upgrade

CHANGELOG - Terraform 1.13 & Packer 1.14

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