Release: 2.17.1

[wozniakjan]

This issue template is used to track the rollout of a patch KEDA release due to two regressions introduced in 2.17.0.

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

Required items

• Admission Webhook blocks ScaledObject with fallback (using AverageValue) 2.17 #6696
• AWS SQS Queue regression on v2.17.0 - queueURLFromEnv not working #6712
• Temporal Scaler does not work properly with API Key authentication against Temporal Cloud as TLS is not enabled on the client: read: connection reset by peer #6703
• Optional field Operation is now mandatory in Azure Service Bus scaler #6730
• A slow ScaledObject's SQL query results in keda-operator in CrashLoopBackOff #6725
• fix: Improve e2e tests and small fixes #6737

Timeline

We aim to release this release in the week of April 28th - May 4th 2025.

Progress

• Welcome message supported versions are up-to-date
• Add the new version to GitHub Bug report template
• Cherry-pick bugfixes from main branch
• 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

[rickbrouwer]

In 2.17 a new Temporal scaler was also introduced. An issue was reported on this (link) with a possible fix (link). Is this also one to include in 2.17.1, or is it better to select it for a new release?

[wozniakjan]

I missed that, thank you! For sure, best to add to 2.17.1

[rickbrouwer]

Can you also add this PR: #6731