Release: 2.17.0

[wozniakjan]

This issue is used to track the rollout of a new KEDA version.

For the full release process, we recommend reading this document.

Required items

• Add debug logs tracking validation of ScaledObjects on webhook #6498
• Update k8s support to 1.32 #6523
• Aws secretsmanager additions #6381
• feat: Add support to use ETag for conditional requests against the Github API #6505
• bump golang to 1.23.6 & linter updates #6526
• fix: fix waiting to reach failureThreshold before fallback #6520
• Add Fallback option behavior for dynamic fallback calculation #6464
• Selenium Grid: Add trigger param to set custom capabilities for matching specific Nodes #6536
• feat: add BoundServiceAccountToken trigger authentication type #6272
• Selenium Grid: Add trigger param for Node enables managed downloads capability #6570
• Keda Operator - MetricsAPI Scaler: text format parsing error in line 31: unexpected end of input stream #6559
• Azure Log Analytics, Prometheus scaler: custom HTTP client timeout #6607
• chore: update Go version to v1.23.7 #6651
• bump k8s to 0.31.7 & bump deps #6652
• fix: ScalingModifiers admission checks the metric type correctly #6687
• Selenium Grid: Trigger param enableManagedDownloads set as true by default #6684
• chore: Bump deps and golang version #6689

Nice to have

• Trigger Schema Generated Tool #6489
• Add support for partition based scaling on the kafka scaler #6558
• Support multiple auth methods simultaneously in Metrics API scaler #6645
• New Solace Direct Messaging Scaler #6546
• Solace Scaler: Enhancement to support a hostlist of Solace brokers #6541
• Add gitlab-runner-scaler #6499
• Refactor Azure Monitor Scaler  #6646

Timeline

We aim to release this version by the end of the March

Progress

• Prepare changelog
• Welcome message supported versions are up-to-date
• Add the new version to GitHub Bug report template
• Best effort version bump for dependencies, example: #5400
  • Update k8s go modules and pin to the 2nd most recent minor version
  • Check if new Go has been released and if KEDA can be safely built by it
  • Update linters and build pipelines if Go has been bumped, example: #5399
• Best effort changelog cleanup, sometimes the notes can be a little inconsistent, example: #5398
• Create KEDA release
• Publish new documentation version
• Setup continuous container scanning with Snyk
• Prepare & ship Helm chart
• Create a new issue in KEDA OLM repository
• Prepare next release
• Provide update in Slack
• Tweet about new release

[adit-bala]

Will this version of Keda support Kubernetes version 3.2?

[JorTurFer]

#6523

[SpiritZhou]

I am also willing to help this release. Ping me if needed. :)

[VietND96]

I would like to include this PR for Selenium Grid scaler also #6536.

[tomwheeler]

Will the next release include #6191, which was approved and merged into main last week?

[zroubalik]

Will the next release include #6191, which was approved and merged into main last week?

@tomwheeler yes, it will. This issue just lists outstanding issues to be merged.