v1.12.8

## 1.12.8
### June 21, 2023
BREAKING CHANGES:

* secrets/pki: Maintaining running count of certificates will be turned off by default.
To re-enable keeping these metrics available on the tidy status endpoint, enable
maintain_stored_certificate_counts on tidy-config, to also publish them to the
metrics consumer, enable publish_stored_certificate_count_metrics . [[GH-18186](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/18186)]

CHANGES:

* core: Bump Go version to 1.19.10.

FEATURES:

* **Automated License Utilization Reporting**: Added automated license
utilization reporting, which sends minimal product-license [metering
data](https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/enterprise/license/utilization-reporting)
to HashiCorp without requiring you to manually collect and report them.
* core (enterprise): Add background worker for automatic reporting of billing
information. [[GH-19625](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/19625)]

IMPROVEMENTS:

* api: GET ... /sys/internal/counters/activity?current_billing_period=true now
results in a response which contains the full billing period [[GH-20694](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20694)]
* api: `/sys/internal/counters/config` endpoint now contains read-only
`minimum_retention_months`. [[GH-20150](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20150)]
* api: `/sys/internal/counters/config` endpoint now contains read-only
`reporting_enabled` and `billing_start_timestamp` fields. [[GH-20086](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20086)]
* core (enterprise): add configuration for license reporting [[GH-19891](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/19891)]
* core (enterprise): license updates trigger a reload of reporting and the activity log [[GH-20680](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20680)]
* core (enterprise): support reloading configuration for automated reporting via SIGHUP [[GH-20680](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20680)]
* core (enterprise): vault server command now allows for opt-out of automated
reporting via the `OPTOUT_LICENSE_REPORTING` environment variable. [[GH-3939](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/3939)]
* core/activity: error when attempting to update retention configuration below the minimum [[GH-20078](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20078)]
* core/activity: refactor the activity log's generation of precomputed queries [[GH-20073](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20073)]
* ui: updates clients configuration edit form state based on census reporting configuration [[GH-20125](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20125)]

BUG FIXES:

* core (enterprise): Don't delete backend stored data that appears to be filterable
on this secondary if we don't have a corresponding mount entry.
* core/activity: add namespace breakdown for new clients when date range spans multiple months, including the current month. [[GH-18766](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/18766)]
* core/activity: de-duplicate namespaces when historical and current month data are mixed [[GH-18452](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/18452)]
* core/activity: fix the end_date returned from the activity log endpoint when partial counts are computed [[GH-17856](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/17856)]
* core/activity: include mount counts when de-duplicating current and historical month data [[GH-18598](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/18598)]
* core/activity: report mount paths (rather than mount accessors) in current month activity log counts and include deleted mount paths in precomputed queries. [[GH-18916](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/18916)]
* core/activity: return partial month counts when querying a historical date range and no historical data exists. [[GH-17935](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/17935)]
* core: Change where we evaluate filtered paths as part of mount operations; this is part of an enterprise bugfix that will
have its own changelog entry.  Fix wrong lock used in ListAuths link meta interface implementation. [[GH-21260](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/21260)]
* core: Do not cache seal configuration to fix a bug that resulted in sporadic auto unseal failures. [[GH-21223](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/21223)]
* core: Don't exit just because we think there's a potential deadlock. [[GH-21342](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/21342)]
* core: Fix panic in sealed nodes using raft storage trying to emit raft metrics [[GH-21249](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/21249)]
* identity: Fixes duplicate groups creation with the same name but unique IDs. [[GH-20964](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20964)]
* replication (enterprise): Fix a race condition with update-primary that could result in data loss after a DR failover
* replication (enterprise): Fix path filters deleting data right after it's written by backend Initialize funcs
* storage/raft: Fix race where new follower joining can get pruned by dead server cleanup. [[GH-20986](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/20986)]