Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd

November 14, 2025

The 2.17.5 stable point release updates some dependencies to address reported CVEs in underlying components.

Previous release: enterprise-2.17.4.

Supported Kubernetes versions

For this release, the minimum supported Kubernetes version remains 1.22, and the maximum supported Kubernetes version remains 1.32.

Who should upgrade?

This is a CVE hygiene release. Users may upgrade to this release at their convenience.

Upgrade guidance

This is a stable point release designed to introduce minimal change. Please see the instructions in Upgrading BEL for how to upgrade.

To upgrade with BEL’s lifecycle automation operator, you will need Buoyant Extension version v0.37.2 or later.

Changelog

• Update helm dependency to remediate advisories from transitive dependency containerd
  • GHSA-m6hq-p25p-ffr2 (maps to CVE-2025-64329)
  • GHSA-pwhc-rpq9-4c8w (maps to CVE-2024-25621)