Helm 4 You
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-04-03· at 16:45· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12·
summary
Helm 4 introduces explicit breaking changes: CLI APIs are refactored so commands become an importable package, deprecated Kubernetes APIs (eg Kubernetes 1.15-era betas) are dropped, and OCI support moves to oras v2 OCI artifacts. Logging migrates to slog structured logging for consistent SDK and CLI output. Charts v3 lands as an experimental charts v3 API with pluggable renderers, CRD handling improvements, kstatus-based release checks, better plugin hooks and native cosign/sigstore signing; planned GA targets QCon Atlanta with stability work starting in August.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to Helm 4
- 1:32Helm 4 development roadmap
- 3:33Completed breaking changes
- 8:51Active development in progress
- 12:44Charts v3 experimentation
- 17:29Status checking improvements
- 19:03OCI and extensibility focus
- 22:38Community involvement
- 25:49Q&A session








