Merge branch 'kedacore:release/v2.17' into release/v2.17

Author: VietND96

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/3_bug_report.yml

@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ body:
     label: KEDA Version
     description: What version of KEDA that are you running?
     options:
+    - "2.17.1"
     - "2.17.0"
     - "2.16.1"
     - "2.16.0"

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ To learn more about active deprecations, we recommend checking [GitHub Discussio
 ## History
 
 - [Unreleased](#unreleased)
-- [v2.17.0](#v2161)
+- [v2.17.1](#v2171)
+- [v2.17.0](#v2170)
 - [v2.16.1](#v2161)
 - [v2.16.0](#v2160)
 - [v2.15.1](#v2151)
@@ -90,6 +91,20 @@ New deprecation(s):
 
 - TODO ([#XXX](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/XXX))
 
+## v2.17.1
+
+### Improvements
+
+- **Selenium Grid**: Update metric name generated without part of empty ([#6772](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/6772))
+
+### Fixes
+
+- **General**: Admission Webhook blocks ScaledObject without metricType with fallback ([#6696](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/6696))
+- **General**: ScalerCache gets the lock before operate the scalers to prevent panics ([#6739](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/6739))
+- **AWS SQS Queue Scaler**: Fix AWS SQS Queue queueURLFromEnv not working ([#6712](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/6712))
+- **Azure Service Bus scaler**: Fix Azure Service Bus scaler add default Operation ([#6730](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/6730))
+- **Temporal Scaler**: Fix Temporal Scaler does not work properly with API Key authentication against Temporal Cloud as TLS is not enabled on the client ([#6703](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/6703))
+
 ## v2.17.0
 
 ### New

apis/keda/v1alpha1/scaledobject_types.go

@@ -305,8 +305,13 @@ func CheckFallbackValid(scaledObject *ScaledObject) error {
 			if trigger.Type == cpuString || trigger.Type == memoryString {
 				continue
 			}
-			// If at least one trigger is of the type `AverageValue`, then having fallback is valid.
-			if trigger.MetricType == autoscalingv2.AverageValueMetricType {
+
+			effectiveMetricType := trigger.MetricType
+			if effectiveMetricType == "" {
+				effectiveMetricType = autoscalingv2.AverageValueMetricType
+			}
+
+			if effectiveMetricType == autoscalingv2.AverageValueMetricType {
 				fallbackValid = true
 				break
 			}