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helm major 3.19.44.0.4

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Release Notes

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v4.0.4: Helm v4.0.4

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Helm v4.0.4 is a security fix for a Go CVE in the previous tag. This patch release rebuilds the Helm v4.0.2 release with the latest Go toolchain, to fix the Go CVE. Users are encouraged to upgrade. Note that tag v4.0.3 was skipped due to a build failure.

The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there!

  • Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack:
    • for questions and just to hang out
    • for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
  • Hang out at the Public Developer Call: Thursday, 9:30 Pacific via Zoom
  • Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages

Installation and Upgrading

Download Helm v4.0.4. The common platform binaries are here:

This release was signed with 208D D36E D5BB 3745 A167 43A4 C7C6 FBB5 B91C 1155 and can be found at @​scottrigby keybase account. Please use the attached signatures for verifying this release using gpg.

The Quickstart Guide will get you going from there. For upgrade instructions or detailed installation notes, check the install guide. You can also use a script to install on any system with bash.

What's Next

  • 3.19.5 and 4.0.5 are the next patch releases and will be on January 14, 2026
  • 3.20.0 and 4.1.0 is the next minor releases and will be on January 21, 2026

Changelog

  • Bump v4.0.2 CVE deps cd700e0 (George Jenkins)
  • Use latest patch release of Go in releases 9db13ee (Matt Farina)

v4.0.2: Helm v4.0.2

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Helm v4.0.2 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 you there!

  • Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack:
    • for questions and just to hang out
    • for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
  • Hang out at the Public Developer Call: Thursday, 9:30 Pacific via Zoom
  • Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages

Installation and Upgrading

Download Helm v4.0.2. The common platform binaries are here:

The Quickstart Guide will get you going from there. For upgrade instructions or detailed installation notes, check the install guide. You can also use a script to install on any system with bash.

What's Next

  • 3.20.0 and 4.1.0 is the next minor releases and will be on January 21, 2026

Changelog

  • fix: prevent reporting fallback on version when none specified 94659f2 (Benoit Tigeot)
  • fix: prevent segmentation violation on empty yaml in multidoc 2dd1f66 (Benoit Tigeot)
  • Ignore duplicated URN in logs bbad438 (Benoit Tigeot)
  • jsonschema: warn and ignore unresolved URN $ref to match v3.18.4 bdcf920 (Benoit Tigeot)
  • Publish Helm v4 -> helm-latest-version 9ac7c2b (George Jenkins)
  • fix: Fix Helm v4 release distribtion/get-helm-3 script 0bef6bd (George Jenkins)

v4.0.1: Helm v4.0.1

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Helm v4.0.1 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 you there!

  • Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack:
    • for questions and just to hang out
    • for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
  • Hang out at the Public Developer Call: Thursday, 9:30 Pacific via Zoom
  • Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages

Installation and Upgrading

Download Helm v4.0.1. The common platform binaries are here:

The Quickstart Guide will get you going from there. For upgrade instructions or detailed installation notes, check the install guide. You can also use a script to install on any system with bash.

What's Next

  • 3.19.3 and 4.0.2 are the next patch releases and will be on December 10, 2025
  • 3.20.0 and 4.1.0 is the next minor releases and will be on January 21, 2026

Changelog

  • Copy adopted resource info 12500dd (George Jenkins)
  • fixup test 1cf3841 (George Jenkins)
  • logs 32e2d08 (George Jenkins)
  • fix 4b6472f (George Jenkins)
  • fix: Use server-side apply for object create during update 9dfe3b3 (George Jenkins)
  • Fix kube client logging 861adc2 (Matt Farina)
  • update tests b2f7872 (yxxhero)
  • Refactor environment variable expansion in PrepareCommands and update tests 77f97a1 (yxxhero)
  • Fix syntax errors in the document a156195 (Fish-pro)
  • fix: correct LDFLAGS path for default Kubernetes version 2c0dcda (Benoit Tigeot)

v4.0.0: Helm v4.0.0

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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 Web Assembly based plugins
  • Post-renderers are now plugins
  • Server side apply is now supported
  • Improved resource watching, to support waiting, based on kstatus
  • Local Content-based caching (e.g. for charts)
  • Logging via slog enabling SDK logging to integrate with modern loggers
  • Reproducible builds of chart archives
  • Updated SDK API including support for multiple chart API versions (new experimental v3 chart API version coming soon)

For full release notes, please see: https://helm.sh/docs/overview/

Compatibility with Helm v3

Helm v4 is a major version with backward incompatible changes including to the flags and output of the Helm CLI and to the SDK.

Please evaluate the changes to your workflows. The changes are not as extensive as those from Helm v2 to v3, with the goal that the majority of workflows remain compatible between Helm v3 and v4.

Helm charts apiVersion v2 (majority of today's charts) will continue to be supported in Helm v4. Existing charts should continue to install, upgrade, and otherwise work. Please test the installation and upgrade of charts to ensure it works as expected. Changes (e.g., server side apply) may impact the experience.

Community

The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there!

  • Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack:
    • for questions and just to hang out
    • for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
  • Hang out at the Public Developer Call: Thursday, 9:30 Pacific via Zoom
  • Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages

Installation and Upgrading

Download Helm v4.0.0. The common platform binaries are here:

The Quickstart Guide will get you going from there. For upgrade instructions or detailed installation notes, check the install guide. You can also use a script to install on any system with bash.

What's Next

  • 3.19.3 and 4.0.1 are the next patch releases and will be on December 10, 2025
  • 3.20.0 and 4.1.0 is the next minor releases and will be on January 21, 2026

Thank You!

The Helm project has enjoyed code contributions from many community members. Many more community members have assisted by filing issues and working with us to identify and eliminate bugs while adding new features. The #helm-users slack channel has long been a friendly and open forum for getting help and learning more about Helm. We cannot thank you enough for making this a helpful, friendly, and welcoming community for all.

❤️ The Helm Team


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