Helm

Helm 2.6.1 includes a handful of bugs. It is a patch release, and users are encouraged to upgrade.

Our community is one of the fastest growing Kubernetes projects. We'd love to have you as a part!

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

Installation and Upgrading

Download Helm 2.6.1. The common platform binaries are here:

• OSX
• Linux
• Windows

Once you have the client installed, upgrade Tiller with helm init --upgrade.

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

• 2.6.2 is the next patch release. This release will only happen if important bugs surface between now and the 2.7.0 release date.
• 2.7.0 is the next major release, and is planned to include Kubernetes 1.8 support.

Changelog

• Fix(helm): Fix the bug of dependency update deleting subcharts 165818e39102e84c7dcb76e72db5670fc16b7a42 (Adam Reese)
• Update docs with the upgrade/install namespace behaviour. 1a4f5c3bc2f3921b8f186d8e18ec0be9230b670c (Ergin Babani)
• 'helm upgrade --install' uses the namespace from kube config. eb52aa2b5d64fa3295a96305c8c8ae166097b050 (Ergin Babani)