Helm 3 is approaching end-of-life. A final, limited Helm 3 feature release will be September 9th, 2026, with security patches continuing to be provided through February 2027.

With the successful release of Helm 4 in November 2025, the maintainers and community are now focused on enhancing the functionality of Helm 4. If you haven't started evaluating Helm 4, now is the time.

Helm 4 offers several improvements over Helm 3 (detailed below), and is expected to be compatible with the majority of existing Helm 3 charts, releases, and workflows.

The Helm Security Team has received third-party reports that the ownership on the former community-maintained Debian/Ubuntu APT mirror domain, baltocdn.com, has changed after baltocdn.com's original registration lapsed. And as a result, the new owners may be using the domain to serve malicious content.

On Wednesday November 12th, during the Helm 4 presentation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Helm v4.0.0 was released. This is the first new major version of Helm in 6 years.

The Helm team is headed to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA '25 in Atlanta, Georgia next week and it's truly a special one for us! This time around, as we celebrate our 10th birthday (fun fact, Helm was launched at the first KubeCon in 2015), we will also be releasing the highly anticipated Helm 4! Join us for a series of exciting activities throughout the week -- read on for more details!

Ten years ago, in a hackathon shortly after the release of Kubernetes 1.1.0, Helm was born.

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The first Alpha for Helm v4 has been released. Now that Helm v4 development is in the home stretch, we wanted to share the details on what's happening and how the broader community can get involved.

If you are installing helm with Apt, be aware that the Debian/Ubuntu Helm Apt repository is moving.

It's that time of the year again – the Helm team is headed to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU '25 in London, UK this week from April 1 - 4! Helm 4 is in the works for later this year so be sure to join the conversation with our maintainers during our talk sessions and at our Helm booth in the Project Pavilion! See below for more details on all Helm-related activities throughout the week.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to perform a software release of one of the most popular tools in the Kubernetes community? While you may envision a series of complex steps or maybe even some black magic (some of which may be true), the release process is much more organized and streamlined than you may have envisioned. However, until you see it for yourself firsthand, these types of questions will continue to go unfulfilled. Seeing it really is believing it!

Helm is going to be at KubeCon / CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City. There will be something happening each day of the main conference, including: