Helm v4.2.2 is a patch release. 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

Notable Changes

• Revert: Fixed a race condition in WaitForDelete where the status observer canceled the watch too early, causing intermittent failures when running a full test suite #32214

Installation and Upgrading

Download Helm v4.2.2. The common platform binaries are here:

• MacOS amd64 (checksum / 10c1e36ee8c5f2e2ee25a16599cb03ab74c0953cd889cacb980a49ba4b6574ba)
• MacOS arm64 (checksum / 5410a0dae3d5d91f45653b161260d9301aabc4ae80ae50a6605d66884b6df8ea)
• Linux amd64 (checksum / 9adafecab4d406853bba163a70e9f104f47dbbf65ce24b7653bae7e36150bcb6)
• Linux arm (checksum / 7e9490169874695e04ab1af47c5620621fc13c84219a258fcc1afdcd40ca7438)
• Linux arm64 (checksum / 78803142087a0069fa4b50d3f32a84d3ef25c14d1ee8a40fbccf86a6216d2f36)
• Linux i386 (checksum / 8e1fdcda4a476ffc5d1179c7f16d33a3d54267efa08fd720f7678277d68bc2d5)
• Linux loong64 (checksum / b8bfe96b8b0b0e2af51af4a00ef521cc5a7e03793aea3568cf8500a63ae05041)
• Linux ppc64le (checksum / 814a80fd98eb9e4c5a9d610f3b9c15ffe120c2f5e39df16a2f491723ebc90126)
• Linux s390x (checksum / d84cdf1123f20cfbef19a2af1cd6afe8b00626bd9846bccb9dae978c810c8274)
• Linux riscv64 (checksum / f07c105180dff2619ab45134b9b47b7845387e8f3299e12ebe0efb87c7548717)
• Windows amd64 (checksum / 5fad8562e98c34fa5af3ef904086a5874a6701050f9bf36e30238c975df94dcd)
• Windows arm64 (checksum / 2e993d6a1dd8197a33e65d8e90b26df9d248ff3501701dea401856aa265a2dab)

This release was signed by @gjenkins8 with key BF88 8333 D96A 1C18 E268 2AAE D79D 67C9 EC01 6739, which can be found at https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/BF888333D96A1C18E2682AAED79D67C9EC016739. 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

• 4.2.3 and 3.21.2 are the next patch releases scheduled for July 8, 2026
• 4.3.0 and 3.22.0 are the next minor releases scheduled for September 9, 2026

Changelog

• Revert "fix(kube): prevent spurious early exit in WaitForDelete during informer sync" b05881c (George Jenkins)

Full Changelog: v4.2.1...v4.2.2