diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index a6dd6cd48..617125cc1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ jobs:
       GOARCH: amd64
       GOPROXY: https://proxy.golang.org
       JDK_VER: ${{ matrix.java }}
-      DAPR_CLI_VER: 1.16.5
-      DAPR_RUNTIME_VER: 1.17.0-rc.2
-      DAPR_INSTALL_URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dapr/cli/v1.16.5/install/install.sh
+      DAPR_CLI_VER: 1.17.0-rc.2
+      DAPR_RUNTIME_VER: 1.17.0-rc.5
+      DAPR_INSTALL_URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dapr/cli/v1.17.0-rc.2/install/install.sh
       DAPR_CLI_REF:
       DAPR_REF:
       TOXIPROXY_URL: https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy/releases/download/v2.5.0/toxiproxy-server-linux-amd64
diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate.yml b/.github/workflows/validate.yml
index b2514209c..47973804e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate.yml
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ jobs:
       GOARCH: amd64
       GOPROXY: https://proxy.golang.org
       JDK_VER: ${{ matrix.java }}
-      DAPR_CLI_VER: 1.16.5
-      DAPR_RUNTIME_VER: 1.17.0-rc.2
-      DAPR_INSTALL_URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dapr/cli/v1.16.5/install/install.sh
+      DAPR_CLI_VER: 1.17.0-rc.2
+      DAPR_RUNTIME_VER: 1.17.0-rc.5
+      DAPR_INSTALL_URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dapr/cli/v1.17.0-rc.2/install/install.sh
       DAPR_CLI_REF:
       DAPR_REF:
     steps:
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index af75b6f23..8afc8bb0d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <grpc.version>1.69.0</grpc.version>
     <protobuf.version>3.25.5</protobuf.version>
-    <dapr.proto.baseurl>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dapr/dapr/v1.17.0-rc.2/dapr/proto</dapr.proto.baseurl>
+    <dapr.proto.baseurl>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dapr/dapr/v1.17.0-rc.5/dapr/proto</dapr.proto.baseurl>
     <durabletask.proto.url>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dapr/durabletask-protobuf/main/protos/orchestrator_service.proto</durabletask.proto.url>
     <dapr.sdk.version>1.17.0-rc-1</dapr.sdk.version>
     <os-maven-plugin.version>1.7.1</os-maven-plugin.version>
diff --git a/sdk-tests/src/test/java/io/dapr/it/spring/data/MySQLDaprKeyValueTemplateIT.java b/sdk-tests/src/test/java/io/dapr/it/spring/data/MySQLDaprKeyValueTemplateIT.java
index b571dbd12..e4397d496 100644
--- a/sdk-tests/src/test/java/io/dapr/it/spring/data/MySQLDaprKeyValueTemplateIT.java
+++ b/sdk-tests/src/test/java/io/dapr/it/spring/data/MySQLDaprKeyValueTemplateIT.java
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@
 @ContextConfiguration(classes = TestDaprSpringDataConfiguration.class)
 @Testcontainers
 @Tag("testcontainers")
-@Disabled("MySQL is broken in 1.17.0-rc.2, waiting for new dapr version")
 public class MySQLDaprKeyValueTemplateIT {
   private static final String STATE_STORE_DSN = "mysql:password@tcp(mysql:3306)/";
   private static final String BINDING_DSN = "mysql:password@tcp(mysql:3306)/dapr_db";
diff --git a/spring-boot-examples/kubernetes/README.md b/spring-boot-examples/kubernetes/README.md
index 29625a658..b19f7bca3 100644
--- a/spring-boot-examples/kubernetes/README.md
+++ b/spring-boot-examples/kubernetes/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Once you have the cluster up and running you can install Dapr:
 helm repo add dapr https://dapr.github.io/helm-charts/
 helm repo update
 helm upgrade --install dapr dapr/dapr \
---version=1.17.0-rc.2 \
+--version=1.17.0-rc.5 \
 --namespace dapr-system \
 --create-namespace \
 --wait