Changelog

Repository-wide changes (tests, CI, docs site). Each chart has its own changelog in charts/<name>/CHANGELOG.md.

2026-11-10

CI

• The pipeline shows the chart checks as the charts job, named after what it checks, like the yaml, markdown and dockerfile jobs from hosstio/gitlab-pipelines. The job was called lint; its script is unchanged.

2026-11-04

Docs site

• Browser tabs, bookmarks and search results show the Helm logo for helmchart.io instead of a blank page icon (docs/public/favicon.png and favicon.ico).
• The home page hero plays a recorded terminal session next to the tagline: helm template, helm install, helm diff upgrade and helm upgrade of the home page example on a kind cluster (docs/public/casts/standard.cast, played by asciinema-player).
• The hero shows star and fork pills and stargazer avatars, and the pills open the GitLab repository. The numbers are fixed values in SOCIAL_PROOF in docs/.vitepress/theme/HeroSocialProof.vue, not counted from the repository.
• Links to helmchart.io shared in WhatsApp, Slack, Teams or LinkedIn show a preview with the page title, its description and a screenshot of the home page hero (og: and twitter: tags, docs/public/visual.png). Each page also declares its canonical URL.

2026-10-27

Tests

• make builds builds every chart in charts/. Before, it failed on charts/charts/ because the chart list included charts/ itself. Its "Found charts:" line now counts the charts, where it printed the number of directories in charts/standard.

2026-10-12

CI

• Slack deploy messages for the docs site show the project's Helm logo instead of a letter. SLACK_MESSAGE_ICON_URL points at a copy of the GitLab project avatar in docs/public/icon.png: Slack renders no SVG and gets a 401 for a private project's avatar.

2026-10-08

Tests

• make build CHART=<chart> renders the complete chart in a fresh checkout. Before, make build CHART=akeneo left out every elasticsearch resource without an error, and charts depending on solr or valkey lost those subcharts the same way: the subchart was packaged before its own standard dependency was built. A new make deps target builds file:// dependencies depth first, and make build runs it before helm template. (!50 chart names match their directories)
• CI now catches a standard template fail that no longer fails the render or changes its message: make validations renders each charts/standard/tests/validations/<name>/values.yaml and passes only when helm fails with the text in that case's error.txt. The golden tests compare rendered output only, so the five fail messages had no test. The cases cover an invalid sealedSecretsScope, strict sealed secrets with a pre-hook job, a null or invalid persistence.<key>.mount, and a container mounting an undefined volume. The tests:standard job runs the target.

CI

• The lint job fails when a chart's Chart.yaml name differs from its directory name, and lists each offending Chart.yaml with the name it carries. archivebox, hello-kubernetes and wekan had shipped as bookstack, a name copied from the bookstack chart, and helm lint accepts any name. (!50 chart names match their directories)
• The lint job fails when a chart version or app version on a docs chart page, in the docs overview table or in the root README table differs from the chart's Chart.yaml, and lists each one. Those versions are typed by hand, and 12 docs pages had drifted. It also checks the Dependencies line on each docs chart page against the chart's subcharts.

2026-09-09

Tests

• make tests now fails when any test fails: the per-test sub-makes were joined with ;, so only the last test's exit code counted and CI stayed green while the cronjobs test had been failing since 2026-08-25. The loops now chain with &&.
• Golden manifests are regenerated with helm 4.3.0, the version the cloud-toolbox CI image ships: helm's rendering whitespace changed after 4.2.0, which broke 16 of the 33 standard tests on newer local helm versions. Goldens byte-match one helm version by design; run helm 4.3.0 locally, and regenerate with make tests-update whenever the CI image's helm changes.

2026-08-21

Tests

• Golden manifests regenerated for the template filename rename: the rename to plural template filenames changed every # Source: comment and the alphabetical render order, but the goldens were not regenerated, so every chart's tests failed. Content unchanged.

2026-08-11

CI

• Pipeline includes follow gitlab-pipelines main again: the three include: entries pinned ref: helm-diff, a branch that was merged upstream and deleted. GitLab could no longer resolve the includes, so every pipeline (on main and on merge requests alike) was created and failed instantly with zero jobs and an empty yaml_errors field, which made it look like an infrastructure fault rather than a config error. Now pinned to main, matching every other Hosst project.
• tests:charts builds subchart dependencies too: the job built dependencies for the chart under test only. A subchart packaged without its own standard dependency renders nothing inside its parent, so akeneo, peertube and superset were tested against output missing all of elasticsearch and valkey, silently and without error. The job now builds every chart first, and their goldens now carry the subchart resources the charts actually ship.
• Golden tests pin the namespace: make test and make test-update now pass --namespace $(TEST_NAMESPACE) (default default). Without it helm template took the namespace from the caller's kube-context, so any chart rendering metadata.namespace produced a different golden locally than in CI, where the runner sets helm-charts. The bookstack job failed on exactly that while passing on every developer machine.
• tests:charts builds chart dependencies: the job ran make tests CHART=$CHART without helm dependency build, so all twelve wrapper charts failed on found in Chart.yaml, but missing in charts/ directory: standard. make tests does not build dependencies and tests:standard never noticed, since the standard chart has none.

2026-06-05

CI

• One tests/<chart> job per chart added to the pipeline, using the cloud-toolbox:helm image; each runs helm dependency build followed by make tests. On main all chart tests always run; on branches only charts with changed files are tested (wrapper chart jobs also trigger on charts/standard/**/* changes). Jobs are grouped under tests/ in the pipeline UI and start immediately without waiting for prior stages (needs: []).