HELM-4.2.4 release notes and known issues

Summary

Helm v4.2.4 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 fix: Improve error reporting for helm template --debug with --show-only- #31185 by @kyokuping fix: fetch logs from all containers in test pods- #32099 by @SebTardif fix(provenance): check error return in Digest and encodeRelease- #32136 by @SebTardif fix panic on repeated IsReachable calls- #32184 by @atkrad fix: set [pull,push] scope when helm push to a registry(use token auth) - v4- #31211 by @kimsungmin1 Fix missing conflict retry with server-side apply- #32088 by @Kajot-dev Properly format the extra field in gzipped packages- #31884 by @ouillie Fix vanishing empty lines- #32327 by @matheuscscp fix: pass registry client to downloader.Manager in upgrade- #32400 by @SetagGnaw chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.80.0 to 1.82.1- for GO-2026-6061 #32450 fix: bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel to v1.44.0 for GO-2026-5158- #32521 by @TerryHowe Installation and Upgrading Download Helm v4.2.4. The common platform binaries are here: MacOS amd64 ( checksum / 6c163d687ca03c3b5c01928e53bbbcf9518278f47ce7a2f249a5a08e8bdaa2bc) MacOS arm64 ( checksum / d747eb4e28bd2727173d15b759fa0a17822291ec09db7ced3d55af290a3661a2) Linux amd64 ( checksum / c306b46f719b0a4da32d0f78ee21bf90ce8d602f15b22ab753f0674d1670a7f3) Linux arm ( checksum / 894e901f7daaf9b458baad7b5c685bfeef49070d7d53f99687bd5846a6c13639) Linux arm64 ( checksum / 564de2191b881e9f71b5606b25345821ea1682f06ab90499d3ab22b530176da1) Linux i386 ( checksum / 45297aeac0c65173a89e8de832997f952ba5115c2db09b2e3f2c23a601e70583) Linux loong64 ( checksum / faafbfecc1a06196e650c3ce0c74d5ac32cb1c0c0a855fa76e59dd100cb8d4c4) Linux ppc64le ( checksum / 5c00073e9d493de201384bb7eb19d60615bd7c39db52148473e8ce6da84bc70a) Linux s390x ( checksum / 5396a35fca5fa46e5614140363f389ce66f96886c1b25f256d9e3028299422fa) Linux riscv64 ( checksum / d8532a3524ca842887b15ab794377dc9c8ced8f26264c84171b4b0aafff05411) Windows amd64 ( checksum / e94d83a4706fd82078c98dade2079fa9d9680c1c2bfb93bfc304ee6bc2412a32) Windows arm64 ( checksum / dbe8b49ea9877abe3d77354a792efb01920da9f65a492fcb8b4fce4e08bbae8f) This release was signed with 208D D36E D5BB 3745 A167 43A4 C7C6 FBB5 B91C 1155 and can be found at @scottrigby keybase account . 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 4.3.0 and 3.22.0 are the next minor releases scheduled for September 9, 2026 Changelog Minimal fix to build failure from #31211 . 3900f43 (Scott Rigby) fix: bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel to v1.44.0 for GO-2026-5158 ( #32521 ) f7c6e8f (Terry Howe) chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.80.0 to 1.82.1 035a2c3 (dependabot[bot]) fix: pass registry client to downloader.Manager in upgrade f76a5f4 (Gates Wang) Apply suggestions 5a7c6c7 (Will Noble) Properly format the extra field in gzipped packages 2281848 (Will Noble) Fix missing conflict retry with server-side apply ( #32088 ) 2c979a1 (Jakub Jaruszewski) Potential fix for pull request finding 2bd2c66 (kimsungmin1) fix(registry): resolve golangci-lint issues in token-auth tests 183a540 (kimsm28) chore: go mod tidy after rebase on main 08d8da1 (kimsm28) fix(registry): use plain-http registry in token-auth scope test 9655b5a (kimsm28) Update pkg/registry/client.go 430dfac (Terry Howe) test: improve client_scope_test.go to avoid data races and brittle assertions 9569605 (kimsm28) fix typos in withScopeHint function comment 63f2b68 (kimsm28) fix registry test failures

Improvements and security content

• Helm v4.2.4 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 fix: Improve error reporting for helm template --debug with --show-only- #31185 by @kyokuping fix: fetch logs from all containers in test pods- #32099 by @SebTardif fix(provenance): check error return in Digest and encodeRelease- #32136 by @SebTardif fix panic on repeated IsReachable calls- #32184 by @atkrad fix: set [pull,push] scope when helm push to a registry(use token auth) - v4- #31211 by @kimsungmin1 Fix missing conflict retry with server-side apply- #32088 by @Kajot-dev Properly format the extra field in gzipped packages- #31884 by @ouillie Fix vanishing empty lines- #32327 by @matheuscscp fix: pass registry client to downloader.Manager in upgrade- #32400 by @SetagGnaw chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.80.0 to 1.82.1- for GO-2026-6061 #32450 fix: bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel to v1.44.0 for GO-2026-5158- #32521 by @TerryHowe Installation and Upgrading Download Helm v4.2.4. The common platform binaries are here: MacOS amd64 ( checksum / 6c163d687ca03c3b5c01928e53bbbcf9518278f47ce7a2f249a5a08e8bdaa2bc) MacOS arm64 ( checksum / d747eb4e28bd2727173d15b759fa0a17822291ec09db7ced3d55af290a3661a2) Linux amd64 ( checksum / c306b46f719b0a4da32d0f78ee21bf90ce8d602f15b22ab753f0674d1670a7f3) Linux arm ( checksum / 894e901f7daaf9b458baad7b5c685bfeef49070d7d53f99687bd5846a6c13639) Linux arm64 ( checksum / 564de2191b881e9f71b5606b25345821ea1682f06ab90499d3ab22b530176da1) Linux i386 ( checksum / 45297aeac0c65173a89e8de832997f952ba5115c2db09b2e3f2c23a601e70583) Linux loong64 ( checksum / faafbfecc1a06196e650c3ce0c74d5ac32cb1c0c0a855fa76e59dd100cb8d4c4) Linux ppc64le ( checksum / 5c00073e9d493de201384bb7eb19d60615bd7c39db52148473e8ce6da84bc70a) Linux s390x ( checksum / 5396a35fca5fa46e5614140363f389ce66f96886c1b25f256d9e3028299422fa) Linux riscv64 ( checksum / d8532a3524ca842887b15ab794377dc9c8ced8f26264c84171b4b0aafff05411) Windows amd64 ( checksum / e94d83a4706fd82078c98dade2079fa9d9680c1c2bfb93bfc304ee6bc2412a32) Windows arm64 ( checksum / dbe8b49ea9877abe3d77354a792efb01920da9f65a492fcb8b4fce4e08bbae8f) This release was signed with 208D D36E D5BB 3745 A167 43A4 C7C6 FBB5 B91C 1155 and can be found at @scottrigby keybase account . 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 4.3.0 and 3.22.0 are the next minor releases scheduled for September 9, 2026 Changelog Minimal fix to build failure from #31211 . 3900f43 (Scott Rigby) fix: bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel to v1.44.0 for GO-2026-5158 ( #32521 ) f7c6e8f (Terry Howe) chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.80.0 to 1.82.1 035a2c3 (dependabot[bot]) fix: pass registry client to downloader.Manager in upgrade f76a5f4 (Gates Wang) Apply suggestions 5a7c6c7 (Will Noble) Properly format the extra field in gzipped packages 2281848 (Will Noble) Fix missing conflict retry with server-side apply ( #32088 ) 2c979a1 (Jakub Jaruszewski) Potential fix for pull request finding 2bd2c66 (kimsungmin1) fix(registry): resolve golangci-lint issues in token-auth tests 183a540 (kimsm28) chore: go mod tidy after rebase on main 08d8da1 (kimsm28) fix(registry): use plain-http registry in token-auth scope test 9655b5a (kimsm28) Update pkg/registry/client.go 430dfac (Terry Howe) test: improve client_scope_test.go to avoid data races and brittle assertions 9569605 (kimsm28) fix typos in withScopeHint function comment 63f2b68 (kimsm28) fix registry test failures

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