v1.18.2

## 1.18.2
### November 21, 2024

SECURITY:

* raft/snapshotagent (enterprise): upgrade raft-snapshotagent to v0.0.0-20241115202008-166203013d8e

CHANGES:

* auth/azure: Update plugin to v0.19.2 [[GH-28848](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28848)]
* core/ha (enterprise): Failed attempts to become a performance standby node are now using an exponential backoff instead of a
10 second delay in between retries. The backoff starts at 2s and increases by a factor of two until reaching
the maximum of 16s. This should make unsealing of the node faster in some cases.
* login (enterprise): Return a 500 error during logins when performance standby nodes make failed gRPC requests to the active node. [[GH-28807](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28807)]

FEATURES:

* **Product Usage Reporting**: Added product usage reporting, which collects anonymous, numerical, non-sensitive data about Vault secrets usage, and adds it to the existing utilization reports. See the [[docs](https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/enterprise/license/product-usage-reporting)] for more info [[GH-28858](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28858)]

IMPROVEMENTS:

* secret/pki: Introduce a new value `always_enforce_err` within `leaf_not_after_behavior` to force the error in all circumstances such as CA issuance and ACME requests if requested TTL values are beyond the issuer's NotAfter. [[GH-28907](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28907)]
* secrets-sync (enterprise): No longer attempt to unsync a random UUID secret name in GCP upon destination creation.
* ui: Adds navigation for LDAP hierarchical roles [[GH-28824](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28824)]
* website/docs: changed outdated reference to consul-helm repository to consul-k8s repository. [[GH-28825](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28825)]

BUG FIXES:

* auth/ldap: Fixed an issue where debug level logging was not emitted. [[GH-28881](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28881)]
* core: Improved an internal helper function that sanitizes paths by adding a check for leading backslashes 
in addition to the existing check for leading slashes. [[GH-28878](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28878)]
* secret/pki: Fix a bug that prevents PKI issuer field enable_aia_url_templating
to be set to false. [[GH-28832](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28832)]
* secrets-sync (enterprise): Fixed issue where secret-key granularity destinations could sometimes cause a panic when loading a sync status.
* secrets/aws: Fix issue with static credentials not rotating after restart or leadership change. [[GH-28775](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28775)]
* secrets/ssh: Return the flag `allow_empty_principals` in the read role api when key_type is "ca" [[GH-28901](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28901)]
* secrets/transform (enterprise): Fix nil panic when accessing a partially setup database store.
* secrets/transit: Fix a race in which responses from the key update api could contain results from another subsequent update [[GH-28839](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28839)]
* ui: Fixes rendering issues of LDAP dynamic and static roles with the same name [[GH-28824](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/28824)]