# KEDA v2.20.2

- Product: KEDA (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/keda)
- Vendor: CNCF
- Date: 2026-07-31
- Version: v2.20.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases/tag/v2.20.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/keda/releases/v2.20.2

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- **added** — Introduce a dedicated `HPAActive` condition on `ScaledObject` mirroring the HPA's own `ScalingActive` status, so transient HPA metric gaps no longer flip the `Ready` condition to `False`
- **fixed** — Fix concurrent map writes panic in the shared root CA `CertPool`
- **fixed** — Fix nil pointer dereference in AWS Secret Manager `TriggerAuthentication` when `awsSecretManager.credentials` is omitted and no `awsSecretManager.podIdentity` is set
- **fixed** — Fix nil pointer dereference in `customScalingStrategy.GetEffectiveMaxScale` when `customScalingQueueLengthDeduction` is omitted; the optional field is now treated as zero deduction instead of panicking
- **fixed** — Fix nil pointer dereference in `GetCurrentReplicas` when a Deployment/StatefulSet/ReplicaSet is returned from the informer cache with an undefaulted `spec.replicas`; a nil value is now treated as the Kubernetes default of 1 instead of panicking
- **fixed** — Fix `ScaledJob` CRD validation to include "default" as a valid value for `scalingStrategy.strategy`
- **fixed** — Guard `GetCurrentReplicas` against nil `Status.ScaleTargetGVKR` to prevent operator panics under the cache race condition
- **fixed** — Restore core `""` API group in events RBAC so that client-go's event broadcaster can write legacy events
- **fixed** — Restore gRPC reconnect backoff in the metrics service client; an unset `Backoff` in `WithConnectParams` disabled backoff and caused a zero-delay reconnect loop that flooded logs when keda-operator was unreachable
- **changed** — Share HTTP transports across scalers to reuse connection pools and avoid re-dial storms at high ScaledObject counts
- **fixed** — Treat negative external metric values as zero to prevent incorrect HPA scaling
- **fixed** — Fix `globPattern` in Azure Blob Storage Scaler never matching when written in path-style with a leading `/`, since blob names never have one
- **fixed** — Disconnect the MongoDB Scaler client when the initial `Ping` fails so the background topology-monitoring connections opened by `mongo.Connect` are not leaked

#### Release KEDA v2.20.2 :rocket:

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ ⚠️ Please read upgrade notes if you are upgrading from version < 2.20.0: https://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases/tag/v2.20.0 ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

###### Improvements

- **General**: Introduce a dedicated `HPAActive` condition on `ScaledObject` mirroring the HPA's own `ScalingActive` status, so transient HPA metric gaps no longer flip the `Ready` condition to `False` ([#7914](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7914))

###### Fixes

- **General**: Fix concurrent map writes panic in the shared root CA `CertPool` ([#7910](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7910))
- **General**: Fix nil pointer dereference in AWS Secret Manager `TriggerAuthentication` when `awsSecretManager.credentials` is omitted and no `awsSecretManager.podIdentity` is set ([#7927](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7927))
- **General**: Fix nil pointer dereference in `customScalingStrategy.GetEffectiveMaxScale` when `customScalingQueueLengthDeduction` is omitted; the optional field is now treated as zero deduction instead of panicking ([#7798](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7798))
- **General**: Fix nil pointer dereference in `GetCurrentReplicas` when a Deployment/StatefulSet/ReplicaSet is returned from the informer cache with an undefaulted `spec.replicas`; a nil value is now treated as the Kubernetes default of 1 instead of panicking ([#7863](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7863))
- **General**: Fix `ScaledJob` CRD validation to include "default" as a valid value for `scalingStrategy.strategy` ([#7855](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7855))
- **General**: Guard `GetCurrentReplicas` against nil `Status.ScaleTargetGVKR` to prevent operator panics under the cache race documented in ([#4389](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/4389)) / ([#4955](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/4955))
- **General**: Restore core `""` API group in events RBAC so that client-go's event broadcaster can write legacy events ([#7922](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7922))
- **General**: Restore gRPC reconnect backoff in the metrics service client; an unset `Backoff` in `WithConnectParams` disabled backoff and caused a zero-delay reconnect loop that flooded logs when keda-operator was unreachable ([#7856](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7856))
- **General**: Share HTTP transports across scalers to reuse connection pools and avoid re-dial storms at high ScaledObject counts ([#7789](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7789))
- **General**: Treat negative external metric values as zero to prevent incorrect HPA scaling ([#7880](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7880))
- **Azure Blob Storage Scaler**: Fix `globPattern` never matching when written in path-style with a leading `/`, since blob names never have one ([#6492](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/6492))
- **MongoDB Scaler**: Disconnect the client when the initial `Ping` fails so the background topology-monitoring connections opened by `mongo.Connect` are not leaked ([#5612](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5612))

##### New Contributors
* @Goutham-Annem made their first contribution in https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/7858
* @simplyaduck made their first contribution in https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/7857
* @itxaiohanglover made their first contribution in https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/7871
* @orfeldman-evolinq made their first contribution in https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/7904
* @vishnu97770 made their first contribution in https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/7928
* @sobol-sudo made their first contribution in https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/7932

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/kedacore/keda/compare/v2.20.1...v2.20.2