Argo CD v3.3.15stable Released Oct 06, 2026
โš ๏ธ Breaking Change Impact Score: 7/10

Argo CD v3.3.15 โ€” Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

Breaking-change evidence from the source

  • Potentially-breaking changes * Kustomize builds that render Helm charts no longer honor `helmGlobals.configHome`. Ordinary `http`, `https`, and `oci` chart repositories still work. Builds that depended on a Helm plugin registered from that directory will not ([GHSA-fw5c-w8rc-j7fx](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-fw5c-w8rc-j7fx)).
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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Argo CD v3.3.15. Source highlight: kubectl create namespace argocd

Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

๐Ÿ’ป Software Engineers & Devs

Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.

๐Ÿ“Š Product & Engineering Leads

Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.

โš™๏ธ DevOps & Security

Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.

โš ๏ธ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)

  • Potentially-breaking changes * Kustomize builds that render Helm charts no longer honor `helmGlobals.configHome`. Ordinary `http`, `https`, and `oci` chart repositories still work. Builds that depended on a Helm plugin registered from that directory will not ([GHSA-fw5c-w8rc-j7fx](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-fw5c-w8rc-j7fx)).

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • CRITICAL: A Kustomize remote ref can run commands in the repo-server (GHSA-9v9p-x54c-58gc)
  • CRITICAL: A Kustomize Helm config home can run commands in the repo-server (GHSA-fw5c-w8rc-j7fx)
  • CRITICAL: A Jsonnet import can read files from the repo-server (GHSA-m3vr-7329-44ww)
  • CRITICAL: AppProject restrictions bypassed by PreDelete/PostDelete resource hooks (GHSA-fmxq-cgp8-87wp, CVE-2026-77459)
  • HIGH: Login failure rate limit can be bypassed via concurrent requests (GHSA-4439-h7jw-5cjj, CVE-2025-61560)
  • HIGH: Command injection via a repository proxy URL on SSH Git repositories (GHSA-j6cw-g6p4-7hch, CVE-2026-55797)
๐Ÿ“„ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Quick Start ### Non-HA: ```shell kubectl create namespace argocd kubectl apply -n argocd --server-side --force-conflicts -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v3.3.15/manifests/install.yaml ``` ### HA: ```shell kubectl create namespace argocd kubectl apply -n argocd --server-side --force-conflicts -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v3.3.15/manifests/ha/install.yaml ``` ## Release Signatures and Provenance All Argo CD container images are signed by cosign. A Provenance is generated for container images and CLI binaries which meet the SLSA Level 3 specifications. See the [documentation](https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/signed-release-assets) on how to verify. ## Release Notes Blog Post For a detailed breakdown of the key changes and improvements in this release, check out the [official blog post](https://blog.argoproj.io/argo-cd-v3-0-release-candidate-a0b933f4e58f) ## Upgrading If upgrading from a different minor version, be sure to read the [upgrading](https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/upgrading/overview/) documentation. ## Changelog ### Security fixes * CRITICAL: A Kustomize remote ref can run commands in the repo-server ([GHSA-9v9p-x54c-58gc](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-9v9p-x54c-58gc)) * CRITICAL: A Kustomize Helm config home can run commands in the repo-server ([GHSA-fw5c-w8rc-j7fx](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-fw5c-w8rc-j7fx)) * CRITICAL: A Jsonnet import can read files from the repo-server ([GHSA-m3vr-7329-44ww](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-m3vr-7329-44ww)) * CRITICAL: AppProject restrictions bypassed by PreDelete/PostDelete resource hooks ([GHSA-fmxq-cgp8-87wp](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-fmxq-cgp8-87wp), CVE-2026-77459) * HIGH: Login failure rate limit can be bypassed via concurrent requests ([GHSA-4439-h7jw-5cjj](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-4439-h7jw-5cjj), CVE-2025-61560) * HIGH: Command injection via a repository proxy URL on SSH Git repositories ([GHSA-j6cw-g6p4-7hch](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-j6cw-g6p4-7hch), CVE-2026-55797) * MODERATE: Extension proxy RBAC ignores application namespace when applications-in-any-namespace is enabled ([GHSA-g3ff-q88g-chrj](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-g3ff-q88g-chrj)) * MODERATE: An oversized OCI manifest can exhaust repo-server memory ([GHSA-w996-f2wq-x9c6](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-w996-f2wq-x9c6)) ### Potentially-breaking changes * Kustomize builds that render Helm charts no longer honor `helmGlobals.configHome`. Ordinary `http`, `https`, and `oci` chart repositories still work. Builds that depended on a Helm plugin registered from that directory will not ([GHSA-fw5c-w8rc-j7fx](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-fw5c-w8rc-j7fx)). * An OCI manifest larger than 4 MiB is now rejected ([GHSA-w996-f2wq-x9c6](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/security/advisories/GHSA-w996-f2wq-x9c6)). ### Bug fixes * c6e39fdecc8b9f59d810325ad955746a5fee38db: fix(cmp): clean up tgz stream temporary directories (#29148) (cherry-pick #29156 for 3.3) (#29774) (@argo-cd-cherry-pick-bot[bot]) * c397ddcc9d1669d5339548b8d42bb89ed7db1da6: fix(health): a KubeVirt VirtualMachine declared stopped is Healthy (cherry-pick #29664 for 3.3) (#29667) (@argo-cd-cherry-pick-bot[bot]) * 33ffc7d654d31d434ff844fb2d60322f182b0448: fix(health): report suspended FlinkDeployment as healthy (#26818) (cherry-pick #28995 for 3.3) (#29526) (@argo-cd-cherry-pick-bot[bot]) * 3abe9eb1d7a1fc62b07231c1de811cd59fa10579: fix(hydrator): retry notes push on cannot lock ref errors (cherry-pick #28469 for 3.3) (#29906) (@argo-cd-cherry-pick-bot[bot]) * 990ea5694003dc924b03bd6e72a48c6a80273719: fix(resource_customizations): Crossplane MRs should report Progressing (not Healthy) whilst provisioning [ISSUE: #29381] (cherry-pick #29382 for 3.3) (#29519) (@argo-cd-cherry-pick-bot[bot]) * 1149cdc6e932208c4402183cc3d7b7485239940c: fix(security): coordinated security fixes (release-3.3) (#30040) (@crenshaw-dev) * a050c4f2d45514b5fb39b3a9d7e89f12cb5d6179: fix(sync): correctly set operationState values on retry (#26530) (cherry-pick #28778 for 3.3) (#29433) (@omkar619-dev) * d5b193b17055a9b677b0419f3b9e5033a19306e5: fix(ui): manifest viewer jumpiness (#29691) (cherry pick 3.3) (#29727) (@crenshaw-dev) * 2cffaf528edb1e3fb8730f2075d3f128623ff4a0: fix(ui): use hydrateTo branch name when set (cherry-pick #29562 for 3.3) (#29565) (@crenshaw-dev) * 0900428b854ce81e5a129a2ea7f74aebdb1efd81: fix: GRPCRoute health check ignores stale observedGeneration conditions (#28086) (cherry-pick #28087 for 3.3) (#29516) (@argo-cd-cherry-pick-bot[bot]) * ec1fc4524dea1880e03b4d0a31d39d7fe441ddd9: fix: don't degrade Cluster API Cluster health while Ready is False during provisioning (cherry-pick #29237 for 3.3) (#29272) (@argo-cd-cherry-pick-bot[bot]) * 601f6112620b17708ffd65720ce055f42e3b7181: fix: handle GrafanaFolder negative-polarity condition (#29395) (cherry-pick #29397 for 3.3) (#29522) (@argo-cd-cherry-pick-bot[bot]) ### Dependency updates * 3249c5cdb0a5d199f42aef23ffba7b66d52a5db4: chore(deps): bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel from 1.43 to 1.44 (release-3.3) (#29763) (@nmirasch) * 874a17c78c4e6d6bc3a4f213947717c41875f7fe: chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto to 0.55.0 (release-3.3) (#29824) (@akhilnittala) * d697764be580f902fb73587bbceb63c4c268285e: chore(deps): bump js-yaml to 4.3.1 in /ui for CVE-2026-59869 (release-3.3) (#29386) (@aali309) **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/compare/v3.3.14...v3.3.15 <a href="https://argoproj.github.io/cd/"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-site/master/content/pages/cd/gitops-cd.png" width="25%" ></a>