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

Timeline

We aim to release this release in the week of February 24-31, 2025

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.

[rickbrouwer]

For required item: #6464
Is it possible to make a decision on this issue:

#6464 (comment)

because then I can leave it as it is or still make the adjustment and solve the merge conflict

[mattbrandman]

Is there an update on the release date?

[wozniakjan]

Is there an update on the release date?

there are few more items that are desired to merge before release, we will keep the list of pending items up to date until the release