# Helm v2.17.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v2.17.0
- **Released:** Oct 26, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v2.17.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v2.17.0. Source highlight: Helm v2.17.0 is a feature release of Helm v2. The focus of this release is the End of Life for Helm v2 support and the deprecation of the stable and incubator Helm chart repositories. The chart repositories are moving to a new location that will serve as a long term archive.

## New Features
- A flag was introduced on `helm init` to skip adding the stable and local chart repositories.
- add Docker authentication to CircleCI jobs 911e061883b27ae092ba8529f118fe15136aff3e (Matthew Fisher)
- Add more informative error message for removed k8s APIs a90182e3b2dba2172a7ee0a2680de0c7b09ec4ed (Martin Hickey)
- Add deprecated Kubernetes API doc 5152c165179c672778f19b6f97a37c405eaf64c6 (Martin Hickey)
- Add Apt (Deb/Ubuntu) installation instructions for Helm 2 628541e0976754a53492701899761460cbc83d01 (Matthew Fox)

## Improvements
- backported archive improvements from v3 (#8318) def975f556a8d32307306be119a5f3b0411224d9 (Matt Butcher)

## Bug Fixes
- Fix for issue 8761 d46f7bc2ca9b160e9a7ddf51f56be3a77959ee1c (Martin Hickey)
- fix formatting error (#8758) b9566b8799f3981fe68d543fb3a6c2cb0dc0c3dc (Matt Butcher)
- fix: use yaml annotations for yaml.v2 validation a9d1204edd6bb87ad9209694297798bcbd3b4e59 (Matthew Fisher)
- backported fixes from helm3 7c287078c1505fbe662fcb77fcb2b873b01d501f (Matt Butcher)
- fix: removed strict template errors from v2 linter a979ba8c587b4b0511b1822f3f1aa521755b864d (Jeff Knurek)
- [v2] fix stack overflow error in helm template. (#7185) 0b31450452666da00e55c41699b5c320171e9748 (zwwhdls)