Lifecycle guide for Vault from HashiCorp

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-10

What is Vault?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

The entire lifecycle of Vault

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Vault. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.

Vault (HashiCorp) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Vault (HashiCorp)

What is the Vault release strategy?

HashiCorp will support Generally Available (GA) releases of active products for up to two (2) years. Eligible code-fixes and hot-fixes are provided via a new minor release (Z) on top of the latest “major release” branch, for up to two (2) releases from the most current major release. A major release is identified by a change in the first (X) or second (Y) digit in the following versioning nomenclature: Version X.Y.Z. As a best practice, HashiCorp expects customers to stay current within two (2) releases from the latest major release in order to receive optimal support. Release updates for Customers are provided regularly on HashiCorp product pages for each HashiCorp product.