- Added a flag to helm init to skip adding the deprecated stable and incubator chart repositories and switched the default stable repo URL to a new long‑term archive location with warnings for old URLs
- Changed the default Tiller image location to ghcr.io/helm/tiller while retaining backward compatibility with the previous GCR location
- Announced Helm v2 end‑of‑life on 2020‑11‑13, deprecating the stable/incubator repositories and urging migration to Helm v3
Helm 2.17.0
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Fixed panic in engine when handling empty files.
Improved error reporting for helm template debug and fixed panic on repeated IsReachable calls.