diff --git a/scripts/azureml-assets/CHANGELOG.md b/scripts/azureml-assets/CHANGELOG.md
index 1be9ecee32..c53ace8ea4 100644
--- a/scripts/azureml-assets/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/scripts/azureml-assets/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 1.17.3 (2026-05-13)
+### 🚀 New Features
+- [#5036](https://github.com/Azure/azureml-assets/pull/5036) Add isArchived to unsupported SDK fields list
+
 ## 1.17.2 (2026-04-17)
 ### 🚀 New Features
 - [#4939](https://github.com/Azure/azureml-assets/pull/4939) Add HumanEvaluationTemplate AssetType
diff --git a/scripts/azureml-assets/azureml/assets/validate_assets.py b/scripts/azureml-assets/azureml/assets/validate_assets.py
index 28e6386012..795596e0cc 100644
--- a/scripts/azureml-assets/azureml/assets/validate_assets.py
+++ b/scripts/azureml-assets/azureml/assets/validate_assets.py
@@ -1053,8 +1053,8 @@ def validate_assets(input_dirs: List[Path],
                 _log_warning(asset_config_path, e)
             continue
 
-        # Extract model variant info and defaultDeploymentTemplate from spec (not supported in SDK)
-        unsupported_fields = ["variantInfo", "defaultDeploymentTemplate"]
+        # Extract fields not supported in SDK from spec
+        unsupported_fields = ["variantInfo", "defaultDeploymentTemplate", "isArchived"]
         unsupported_fields_mapping = {}
 
         if asset_config.type == assets.AssetType.MODEL:
diff --git a/scripts/azureml-assets/setup.py b/scripts/azureml-assets/setup.py
index 0634bda801..1bc6b2a7d0 100644
--- a/scripts/azureml-assets/setup.py
+++ b/scripts/azureml-assets/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 setup(
    name="azureml-assets",
-   version="1.17.2",
+   version="1.17.3",
    description="Utilities for publishing assets to Azure Machine Learning system registries.",
    author="Microsoft Corp",
    packages=find_packages(),