Helm

Help us welcome our newest maintainers Evans Mungai, @freshpow.bsky.social, & Paige Calvert who have been contributing immensely to the Helm project! 🥳 We're thankful for all their hard work and look forward to their continued contributions to Helm!

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: 🚨 Contribfest: Hands-On With Helm 4: Was... View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

🙌 Now that Helm 4 is out, join the maintainers at #KubeCon for a Contribfest session - Hands-On With Helm 4: Wasm Plugins, OCI, and Resource Sequencing. Oh My!

We’ll be kicking off at 2:15 PM in room B207. Details here: sched.co/27Nl0

Release Helm v4.0.0 · helm/helm The Helm Team is proud to announce the first stable release of Helm 4. New Features Helm 4 has numerous new features, but a few deserve highlighting here: Redesigned plugin system that supports We...

‼️Helm v4.0.0 is now officially live! github.com/helm/helm/re... ‼️

New updates include:

🎉 plugin system that supports WASM based plugins

🎉 Server side apply support

🎉 & LOTS more

Go check it out! & if you’re around at #KubeCon, come chat about it at the Helm booth!

Come by the Helm booth at the #KubeCon Project Pavilion! We’ve got Hazels in party hats to celebrate Helm’s 10th birthday! And invites for our Helm 4 Release Party on Wednesday! AND project maintainers to answers your questions. We’ll be around the second half of each day 👋

Wondering where to find us next week at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon? We’ve got a full agenda –

🗣️ maintainer track talk
💻 contribfest
👥 project booth
🥳 Helm 4 Release Party

Check out full details here: helm.sh/blog/helm-at...

📣 Helm v4.0.0-rc.1 just came out — github.com/helm/helm/re...! Take a look, give a try, let us know your feedback!

Helm Turns 10 Helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager.

🔟 years ago today, the first commit to Helm was made by @technosophos.bsky.social! 🎉

Read about it here:
helm.sh/blog/helm-tu...

& come celebrate our 10th birthday + Helm 4 at #KubeCon in a few weeks! More details to come.

Release v4.0.0-beta.1 · helm/helm Helm v4.0.0-beta.1 is a pre-release for the next major version of Helm. This is a pre-release meant for testing. The beta testing phase is meant to test Helm v4. API breaking changes are no longer ...

Helm 4 Beta 1 is out!

This is your chance to test it, break it, and help shape the path to GA. 🧭

Try it now and share your feedback 👉 github.com/helm/helm/re...

#helm4 #Kubernetes #CloudNative

🫧 Calling all companies in the Helm ecosystem: we’re inviting co-sponsors for the Helm 4 Release Party at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon! Atlanta!

Express interest by Oct 17. See the prospectus here 👉 helm.sh/v4-launch-pa...

#Helm #Kubernetes #CloudNative

Path To Releasing Helm v4 Helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager.

The first alpha for #helm4 is out! Check out @mattfarina.com’s blog post outlining the planned timeline leading up to our release in mid-Nov at #KubeCon 🍂

helm.sh/blog/path-to...

Release Helm v3.18.6 · helm/helm Helm v3.18.6 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see ...

v3.18.6 of @helm.sh is out. Last weeks security release contained a regression that's impacting some users. This release fixes that regression.

More detail at github.com/helm/helm/re...

Release Helm v3.17.4 · helm/helm Helm v3.17.4 is a patch release, this bring is the security release noted below. This is intended for Helm SDK users. CLI users are recommended to use the latest version of Helm. Security Advisorie...

Helm 3.17.4 is out – this is a security release for Helm SDK users. CLI users should use the latest version of Helm.
github.com/helm/helm/re...

Chart Dependency Updating With Malicious Chart.yaml Content And Symlink A Helm contributor discovered that a specially crafted `Chart.yaml` file along with a specially linked `Chart.lock` file can lead to local code execution when dependencies are updated. ### Impac...

Our latest release (v3.18.4) is a security patch release - be sure to update now 👇

ICYMI - we released a second regression fix patch release last week 👇

Release v0.6.1 · helm/helm-mapkubeapis Changelog afa3045 Merge pull request #191 from porridge/extras e357308 Merge pull request #195 from robertsirc/update-helm-version 5998d10 removing bak file f091402 fixing golangci-lint 4e28825 up...

New release of @helm.sh mapkubeapis plugin is out. github.com/helm/helm-ma...

Release Helm 3.18.2 · helm/helm Helm v3.18.2 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see ...

v3.18.2 of @helm.sh is out. This fixes the last of the known regressions from the 3.18.0 release. If you are aware of any more issues, please file them. #Kubernetes

github.com/helm/helm/re...

We have seen users reporting regressions in @helm.sh 3.18.0. We have triaged them and are actively working on fixes. I hope we have resolution asap.

Please help us welcome @freshpow.bsky.social as one of our newest Triage maintainers! 👏 Terry has shown up for the project time after time and we’re excited to have him join in an official capacity! 🎉

Release Helm v3.17.3 · helm/helm Helm v3.17.3 is a security (patch) release. Users are strongly recommended to update to this release. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there! Join the discussion in Kubernetes...

Did you miss last week’s release of Helm v3.17.3? 🔐Check out the notes in this security patch release:

github.com/helm/helm/re...

Dependabot version updates now support Helm · GitHub Changelog Dependabot version updates now support Helm

Dependabot now supports @helm.sh. I'm pretty happy about this one.

github.blog/changelog/20...

Helm @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU '25 Helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager.

Hello London! 👋 our maintainers will be @ #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon!

Don’t miss our…
🇬🇧 Contribfest (Wed)
🇬🇧 Maintainer talk session (Thur)
🇬🇧 Project pavilion booth (second half of Wed-Fri) - we’re giving away Helm tea towels 🫖

For all Helm related activities, read our blog: helm.sh/blog/helm-at...

Release Helm v3.17.1 · helm/helm Helm v3.17.1 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see ...

ICYMI: we released Helm v3.17.1 last week! The patch releases includes a test for nullifying nested global, test case for removing an entire object c23e3b6 (Ryan Hockstad), and
tests for bugfix: Override subcharts with null values. Check out the full details here: github.com/helm/helm/re...

A new era for Helm Community post by Robert Sirchia (SUSE), Matt Farina (SUSE), and Jorge O. Castro (CNCF) As cloud native heads into its second decade, we’d like to spend some time talking about Helm and its future.

A quick update on what helm's up to in 2025. Lots of lessons to be learned here on trying to shift gears into a new major release while cleaning up ye olde project governance:

www.cncf.io/blog/2025/01...

Release Helm v3.17.0 · helm/helm Helm v3.17.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there! Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack: f...

📣 Helm v3.17.0 is now out! Highlights include:

⚡️Allow pulling & installation by OCI digest
⚡️New --take-ownership flag for install & upgrade commands
⚡️SDK: Authorizer & registry authorizer are now configurable
⚡️& more!

Read the release notes here: github.com/helm/helm/re...

Release Helm v3.16.4 · helm/helm Helm v3.16.4 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see ...

v3.16.4 of @helm.sh is out. Get it at github.com/helm/helm/re...

This release only bumps a couple dependencies, one of this had a CVE.

This release is a few days laters than normal because it was going to be skipped until a dependency had a CVE update. This releases deals with that. #Kubernetes

Helm Weekly Developer Meeting Notes Helm Minutes Helm Developer calls take place every Thurs day at 9:30am Pacific Time in this zoom room. Passcode is: 77777 Anyone is welcome to join this call and participate. The Helm project falls un...

🛎️ If you want to join us for Helm v4 discussions, join us this tomorrow (Thur) for our hour long kickoff at 12pm ET / 9am PT! Details & agenda here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please help spread the word 🙏 see you there!

Presentation slide of Helm v4 development and Helm v3 impact – • Helm v4 Development Opens: Nov 2024 • New Features In Helm v4, Bugs Fixed in v4 & Backported to v3, Keep Up With k8s minors: Nov 2024 • Switch From Feature To Stability Work (with ecosystem feedback): Aug 2025 • Release Helm v4: Nov 2025 - For CloudNativeCon/KubeCon • Helm v3 EOL: Jul 2026

Helm v4 development is now open! Here’s the timeline we’re aiming for —

Our Helm maintainer track talk with @mattfarina.com & @andyserver.com just kicked off! Head to the
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C now!

We have lots of exciting Helm activities for you at #Kubecon today!

Join us for Helm 4 discussions at:

⚡️ Contribfest: Helm 4 (2:30pm)- sched.co/1howt
⚡️ Path to Helm 4 (5:25pm) - sched.co/1hoxU

OR come chat w/ us @ the Helm project booth from 1:45 - 5:00 PM!

This cycle I worked closely with the helm.sh maintainers as they charted a course from helm3 to 4. This is the year to get involved. They did a live release on the show floor of #kubecon today.

Didn't even realize they did it from a Framework 13 running projectbluefin.io. Nice.