v3.18.1

Helm v3.18.1 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 v3.18.1. The common platform binaries are here:

• MacOS amd64 (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:4f8453aa-001e-003c-5205-d0dcf3000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:05.5109560Z</Message></Error>)
• MacOS arm64 (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:a900358b-401e-005f-2f05-d04108000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:07.2988256Z</Message></Error>)
• Linux amd64 (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:986fe6a5-d01e-002f-8005-d0f8ff000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:08.7172759Z</Message></Error>)
• Linux arm (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:2f981509-f01e-005a-6505-d093d3000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:11.8122083Z</Message></Error>)
• Linux arm64 (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:b3650821-501e-0043-4705-d01368000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:13.2709106Z</Message></Error>)
• Linux i386 (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:5ed8caa4-501e-0053-1405-d0d600000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:10.2914063Z</Message></Error>)
• Linux ppc64le (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:56ba38e6-601e-0067-2f05-d0e5c8000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:14.8541300Z</Message></Error>)
• Linux s390x (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:be1aaddc-e01e-0034-0305-d0c6fc000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:16.2794423Z</Message></Error>)
• Linux riscv64 (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:a677f8be-001e-0061-2505-d0d677000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:18.0550305Z</Message></Error>)
• Windows amd64 (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:3626c97e-601e-0005-5805-d027ef000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:19.5433518Z</Message></Error>)
• Windows arm64 (checksum / <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error><Code>BlobNotFound</Code><Message>The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:5ed92440-501e-0053-5705-d0d600000000 Time:2025-05-28T19:20:20.7596381Z</Message></Error>)

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

• 3.18.2 will contain only bug fixes.
• 3.19.0 on September 11th, 2025 is the next feature release.

Changelog

• fix(client): skipnode utilization for PreCopy f6f8700a539c18101509434f3b59e6a21402a1b2 (Brandt Keller)
• fix(client): layers now returns manifest - remove duplicate from descriptors 4da701593f8c8a137fc36a95f9e9ecfe1d01528f (Brandt Keller)
• fix(client): return nil on non-allowed media types 1a8507fd5ad910f466accfd1c784ed0c333c343a (Brandt Keller)
• Prevent fetching newReference again as we have in calling method 015531ca4f386a6fee6c9f48eae63124d19c76a7 (Benoit Tigeot)
• Prevent failure when resolving version tags in oras memory store 9db1a120f9f7404044cc4619ea7379b430004e36 (Benoit Tigeot)
• Update pkg/plugin/plugin.go e8bfa0eed689ee822c6ba9b4bcae45ecdb36b671 (Benoit Tigeot)
• Update pkg/plugin/plugin.go 24b44902a266f911617105273d4afd16f25f4aaf (Benoit Tigeot)
• Wait for Helm v4 before raising when platformCommand and Command are set 7e8f53421a184125cf988814206237ce01d95139 (Benoit Tigeot)
• Fix 3.18.0 regression: registry login with scheme ea04cea48bf2b312e506ae03c412c6fd95929c5c (Scott Rigby)
• Revert "fix (helm) : toToml` renders int as float [ backport to v3 ]" bec66098fdb4ac37298f46701a2d5b28e5776b72 (Matt Farina)