Outage in HashiCorp
Hashicorp GPG Key Rotation
Resolved Minor
April 20, 2026 - Started 28 days ago
- Lasted 1 day
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
HashiCorp's GPG key rotation caused validation errors affecting Terraform (specifically users of Stacks functionality) and hc-install over a weekend period. The incident lasted 24.2 hours and impacted new installations that needed to install the Stacks Plugin. HashiCorp resolved the issue by releasing hc-install v0.9.4 and deploying fixes for Terraform with backports to versions 1.13, 1.14, and 1.15.
We are aware of and investigating errors that started occurring over the weekend as a result of the rotation of our GPG key "rotation of our GPG key": https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-03-hashicorp-gpg-key-72d7468f-update/77237 for security@hashicorp.com "security@hashicorp.com": mailto:security@hashicorp.com (C874011F0AB405110D02105534365D9472D7468F).
The errors currently affect the use of Terraform, and hc-install "hc-install": https://github.com/hashicorp/hc-install.
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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
MONITORING
28 days ago - at 04/20/2026 07:52PM
Our Engineering team has released a fix for the Stacks validation errors, and backported it to Terraform 1.14.
The fix will make it’s way into the 1.15 pre-release through the normal pre-release process.
IDENTIFIED
28 days ago - at 04/20/2026 06:02PM
Our Engineering team is currently working on releasing a fix for the Stacks validation errors, and backporting it to Terraform 1.14. The release is expected to be available before 22:00 UTC.
The fix will make it’s way into the 1.15 pre-release through the normal pre-release process.
The next update can be expected around 20:00 UTC.
IDENTIFIED
28 days ago - at 04/20/2026 04:00PM
Our Engineering team has identified the cause of GPG validation errors with Terraform: only new installations that need to install the Stacks Plugin are affected.
Our Engineering team is actively working on a fix, and backports for the fix to Terraform 1.14, 1.13, and 1.15 (currently pre-release).
We do not have an ETA for the completion of this work at this time.
The next update can be expected around 18:00 UTC.
IDENTIFIED
28 days ago - at 04/20/2026 03:01PM
Our engineering team has identified the cause of GPG validation errors with Terraform.
For Terraform:
• Only consumers of Stacks are affected.
• Engineers are actively working on a fix.
The next update can be expected around 16:00 UTC.
IDENTIFIED
28 days ago - at 04/20/2026 02:29PM
Our engineering team has identified the cause of GPG validation errors with Terraform and hc-install.
For hc-install:
• A new release has been cut (v0.9.4) which should address key rotation errors.
• Affected workflows should update their hc-install version and retry.
For Terraform:
• Only consumers of Stacks are affected.
• Engineers are actively working on a fix.
The next update can be expected around 15:00 UTC.
INVESTIGATING
28 days ago - at 04/20/2026 01:40PM
We are aware of and investigating errors that started occurring over the weekend as a result of the rotation of our GPG key "rotation of our GPG key": https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-03-hashicorp-gpg-key-72d7468f-update/77237 for security@hashicorp.com "security@hashicorp.com": mailto:security@hashicorp.com (C874011F0AB405110D02105534365D9472D7468F).
The errors currently affect the use of Terraform, and hc-install "hc-install": https://github.com/hashicorp/hc-install.
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