Sourced from helm.sh/helm/v4's releases.
Helm v4.2.1 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!
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- 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
- Fixed data race detected by -race flag when concurrent goroutines (upgrade + rollback, install + uninstall) both call GetWaiterWithOptions on the same FailingKubeClient instance #31925
- Fixed helm command success messages writing to stderr instead of stdout. Now correctly outputing to stdout #32056
- Fixed Helm 4 emitting "unable to find exact version" when using version range constraints #31757
- Fixed a race condition in WaitForDelete where the status observer canceled the watch too early, causing intermittent failures when running a full test suite #32081
- Bumped golang.org/x/net to v0.55.0 to address GO-2026-5026 #32153
- Fixed SDK errors by upgrading dependencies: cli-utils 1.2.1, controller-runtime 0.24.1 and k8s 1.36.1 #32128
- Dependency updates
Installation and Upgrading
Download Helm v4.2.1. The common platform binaries are here:
- MacOS amd64 (checksum / 2a21c9f368d608bcf6eb794ebc06514eb6b529a846b60fe4a43dea7bcce65228)
- MacOS arm64 (checksum / 896472d2ec0740c60f64a9df0fc30d478beee38a1a2a6ed91aa6e6ee177c1575)
- Linux amd64 (checksum / 479dca836e5b45e8bd222400c5591b0e3a647378f03ff96597180db97c17fdae)
- Linux arm (checksum / 49e8f7856de6eab170dc09671cfb0578cc455d820df5b0f54e6453058dc0e3f3)
- Linux arm64 (checksum / 596b9a73d366c1e72ce67d595c22805480e30914593aafbc9f547694e72814db)
- Linux i386 (checksum / e038eab680f22b1cebe68fd0536cf2397b0c10798dcb23c28e500e0804ec1a55)
- Linux loong64 (checksum / 8ae26f15638d951c4ed21d0d3018b8800a137646e5e5151a3856cf324c2852ae)
- Linux ppc64le (checksum / 6f34eca5e314e941577a07be6c8b356f66b9cdefbed1175da1e7916368febcfc)
- Linux s390x (checksum / e6355691887d4185b7e077f058483c04f353229feb7d4a72edc3ebe0b8738a6a)
- Linux riscv64 (checksum / 16a4299f14ff1ffa79bb22115051911c662fa2ecdd90e85b65d7d143e8de9d02)
- Windows amd64 (checksum / 6e7fa7839444b8ddc407c5bcdb1edd1024f57d09c2db971dec511ee2f2616eb0)
- Windows arm64 (checksum / ae4c9acd0d9acd1f9e9da2f60105f793f65fd49ab7c03c6c7d13804c3b885657)
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bash.What's Next
- 4.2.2 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
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fix: protect FailingKubeClient.RecordedWaitOptions from data race (#31925)2a9fcae
fix: route registry client output to stdout instead of stderr (#32056)ffa5bd6
chore(deps): bump oras.land/oras-go/v2 from 2.6.0 to 2.6.19f9dbaf
chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.52.0 to 0.53.064a2891
chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.43.0 to 0.44.0e54a4a2
chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0acb762b
chore(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 4.36.1 to 4.36.2768586d
chore(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 4.36.0 to 4.36.1eabfae5
fix(version): avoid false range detection on prerelease x/Xe3fd51f
fix(version): version range || can has no space2f4cefd
Update dependencies to v0.36.2 tagae3f98e
Update dependencies to v0.36.2 tag2ec982d
Merge pull request #139508lalitc375/automated-cherry-pick-of-#1394806a88102
Fix wrong marking of errorsc97bc2f
Update dependencies to v0.36.2 tag877f535
Update dependencies to v0.36.2 tag