v1.17.0

Release notes for 1.17.0

Container images

docker.io/scylladb/scylla-operator:1.17.0

Changes By Kind (since 1.16.2)

Feature

• Make RSA key size configurable in operator command (#2360,@rzetelskik)
• Mirror ConfigMaps and Secrets referenced in ScyllaDBCluster into remote datacenters (#2524,@zimnx)
• Reconcile remote datacenters independently (#2535,@zimnx)
• Remove Type prefix for aggregated Condition Reasons (#2581,@zimnx)

Bug

• Use alphanum characters in hashed name suffix (#2505,@zimnx)
• Clear data keyspace snapshots for first node in rack during ScyllaDB version upgrade (#2528,@zimnx)
• Propagate Options in DataInserter constructor in E2E utils (#2545,@rzetelskik)
• Render .spec.datacenter.racks directly in Helm template (#2556,@mflendrich)
• Update default storage capacity to 120Gi and set sysctls' fs.aio-max-nr value to 30000000 in Scylla helm chart (#2565,@grzywin)
• Forget keys on nonretriable errors in observer (#2589,@rzetelskik)
• Fix Available Condition of RemoteKubernetesCluster after recovery (#2599,@zimnx)

Documentation

• Build v1.16 documentation (#2501,@mflendrich)
• Add review release notes before upgrading (#2516,@ylebi)
• Fix pull request template contribution link (#2518,@ylebi)
• Update the documentation for 1.16 (#2531,@mflendrich)
• Fix broken links in resources/overview/ (#2553,@ylebi)
• Remove redundant wait for webhook CA secret in docs' GitOps installation steps (#2569,@rzetelskik)
• Remove :link: option from sphinx-design cards (#2584,@dgarcia360)
• Update docs theme to 1.8.6 (#2585,@dgarcia360)
• Update restore from backup documentation page (#2601,@ylebi)
• Update docs dependencies (#2608,@dgarcia360)
• Fix md redirections for multiversion support (docs) (#2613,@dgarcia360)
• Stop building docs for 1.13 and 1.14 (#2616,@rzetelskik)
• Fix GitOps local-csi-driver installation command (#2630,@czeslavo)

Flaky/Failing Test

• Fix flaky e2e test by zeroing XFS log before checking filesystem integrity (#2543,@zimnx)
• Move e2e tests RemoteKubernetesCluster Secret to dedicated namespace (#2564,@zimnx)

Other

• Make RSA key size configurable in CI scripts and use 2048 bits in E2E CI jobs by default (#2474,@rzetelskik)
• Update Go to 1.24 (#2480,@rzetelskik)
• Bump go.mod deps (#2507,@mflendrich)
• Bump upload-artifact to v4 in GH Actions (#2514,@mflendrich)
• Refactor RemoteKubernetesCluster setup in E2E tests (#2523,@zimnx)
• Refactor e2e package structure (#2525,@zimnx)
• Add .generated_files to make the size prow plugin accurate (#2526,@mflendrich)
• Change retries of e2e artifact collection (#2540,@zimnx)
• Graceful e2e shutdown on timeout (#2541,@zimnx)
• Fix signal sent to e2e Pod on graceful shutdown (#2546,@zimnx)
• Update local-csi-driver to 0.5.0 (#2557,@mflendrich)
• Add an enhancement proposal for initial ScyllaDBCluster integration with ScyllaDB Manager (#2558,@rzetelskik)
• Update release 1.17 date (#2573,@ylebi)
• Align naming of Multidatacenter Config Sync E2E (#2582,@zimnx)
• Add dependency update step to release procedure (#2583,@zimnx)
• Introduce Dependabot to bump go.mod & vendored packages (#2592,@mflendrich)
• Fix vendor syntax in the dependabot config (#2593,@mflendrich)
• Remove the explicit vendor setting from the dependabot config (#2594,@mflendrich)
• Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (#2595,@dependabot)
• Bump the k8s-io group with 11 updates (#2596,@dependabot)
• Bump the gomod group with 16 updates (#2597,@dependabot)
• Refactor ErrorLists into nil slices (#2598,@mflendrich)
• Register collection of remote Namespaces originating from ScyllaDBCluster during E2E tests (#2600,@zimnx)
• Fix GH issues references in code to point to OS repo (#2605,@zimnx)
• Bump the k8s-io group with 11 updates (#2606,@dependabot)
• Bump the gomod group with 3 updates (#2607,@dependabot)
• Bump the k8s-io group with 11 updates (#2617,@dependabot)
• Bump the gomod group with 2 updates (#2618,@dependabot)
• Update ScyllaDB, Manager, UBI and monitoring (#2623,@mflendrich)
• Pin the 1.17 tag (#2627,@mflendrich)

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