cert-manager(v1.17.3): Enhanced ACME Challenge Stability and Updated Ingress-Nginx Compatibility
📋 Recommended Actions ✅ No Immediate Action Required No immediate action required. Review updates for improved ACME challenge stability and awareness of updated Ingress-Nginx testing within cert-manager’s ecosystem. This cert-manager v1.17.3 patch release focuses on enhancing the reliability of certificate issuance and ensuring robust compatibility with other crucial Kubernetes ecosystem components. You’ll find a significant increase in the ACME challenge authorization timeout, which should lead to more successful certificate requests, particularly in environments with network latency or slower DNS propagation. Additionally, our end-to-end testing environment has been updated to use a newer ingress-nginx version with its admission webhook enabled, reinforcing cert-manager’s compatibility with modern ingress configurations. ...