KEDA 2.21 patches a TriggerAuthentication CVE and removes deprecated Temporal and Azure Pipelines scaler settings. The safe upgrade path from 2.20, which just went EOL.
KEDA event-driven autoscaling explained: how the scaler, metrics adapter and controller drive HPA from queue depth and event sources - scale-to-zero, cold starts, 60+ scalers and production tuning on Kubernetes in 2026.