From 3c2f5b2ea099c8df129ed18be0cf7a572a8ad895 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vault Automation <github-team-secure-vault-core@hashicorp.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:48:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Enable GCP workload identity authentication for GCP KMS
 Managed Keys (#11918) (#11942)

* removing explicit GCP credentials checks to allow for GCP WIF authentication, in line with AWS KMS functionality

* upd: updated changelog for GCP managed keys in core

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Co-authored-by: Steven Clark <steven.clark@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: rizkybiz <justin.defrank@gmail.com>
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 changelog/_11471.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog/_11471.txt

diff --git a/changelog/_11471.txt b/changelog/_11471.txt
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+```release-note:improvement
+core/managed-keys (enterprise): Allow GCP managed keys to leverage workload identity federation credentials
+```
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