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Karmadav1.17.5Orchestration & ManagementJul 31, 2026

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A mixed maintenance and feature release with workload-affinity and anti-affinity support, encryption-at-rest capabilities, bug fixes, and updates to dependencies and default images. It also changes operational defaults and validation while deprecating or removing configuration flags and fields, so compatibility and configuration changes are part of the release.

Action needed (1)

breakingControllerPriorityQueue promotion to beta and default enablement
ControllerPriorityQueue is promoted to beta and enabled by default.

Check if affected (4)

breakingThe --etcd-init-image flag, removed from karmadactl init
Applies if you use the --etcd-init-image flag.
karmadactl removed the deprecated --etcd-init-image flag from the init command.
breakingnamespace validation for spec.resourceSelectors
Applies if you use PropagationPolicy or OverridePolicy.
karmada-webhook adds namespace validation for spec.resourceSelectors in PropagationPolicy and OverridePolicy.
breakingDistinct GroupByLabelKey values in WorkloadAffinity
Applies if you configure WorkloadAffinity.
karmada-webhook disallows setting the same GroupByLabelKey for affinity and antiAffinity in WorkloadAffinity.
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deprecatedEtcd.Local.InitImage deprecationdeprecated since v1.17.0 · removal date not announced
Applies if you configure Etcd.Local.InitImage in Karmada Init Configuration.
Etcd.Local.InitImage in Karmada Init Configuration is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
deprecatedDeprecation of cluster lease flagsdeprecated since v1.17.0 · removal date not announced
Applies if you use --cluster-lease-duration or --cluster-lease-renew-interval-fraction.
The flags --cluster-lease-duration and --cluster-lease-renew-interval-fraction are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

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