Helm

Helm v2.8.1 includes a handful of bug fixes. It is a patch release, and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

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

• Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack:
  • #helm-users for questions and just to hang out
  • #helm-dev 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 2.8.1. 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.

Changelog

• bump version to v2.8.1 6af75a8fd72e2aa18a2b278cfe5c7a1c5feca7f2 (Matthew Fisher)
• fix(grpc): Fixes issue where message sending limited to 4mb e2f688fa0d3cead645dc6737fa236021fa740f82 (Matt Farina)
• Revert "feat(helm): adding kubeconfig flag" 63da741e485e01618ec647d923ec7dbf5d0c385d (Matthew Fisher)
• fix(api-machinery): Fixes patching for unstructured objects 90957b905c6f8446c590a05ca43171e4e3073918 (Matt Farina)
• fix helm init --upgrade logic 2b2b994092fc7b8407dd8403c673844721ccd929 (Matthew Fisher)
• Fix 'getSelectorFromObject' 7086a16e29cfb106c272437f756b6cef628e7582 (Reinhard Nägele)
• Fix pod recreation d6dc3ded8465f177866e67e8acc1694f189064f0 (Reinhard Nägele)
• adding other missing apiVersions db39e0927f5f527cafbaae93df27bdf8e47ef2d3 (Paolo Mainardi)
• add appsv1beta1 and appsv1beta2 apiVersion e3a8b807ac4e3e4fc084a0c84d69910709ccc139 (Paolo Mainardi)
• exit zero on non-master branch 772a2799a8337672105f611b28e5874ac4a85853 (Matthew Fisher)
• bump version to v2.8 7de81bbd919cb8fd459834f788af88823c7f56da (Matthew Fisher)
• fix RELEASE_BRANCH_NAME fdbbfecb55b6cd23ea59cc668ec55cc900cd3ea4 (Matthew Fisher)