v1.17.1

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

This release is primarily intended to address a breaking change in Cloudflare's API which impacted ACME DNS-01 challenges using Cloudflare.

Many thanks to the community members who reported this issue!

Changes by Kind

Bug or Regression

• ❗ Fix issuing of certificates via DNS01 challenges on Cloudflare after a breaking change to the Cloudflare API (#7565, @LukeCarrier)
• Bump go to 1.23.6 to address CVE-2025-22866 reported by Trivy (#7563, @SgtCoDFish