Issues

• Install fails with a bare "Too long" when the release Secret exceeds 1 MiB

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1601 · opened on Oct 4, 2026

• SSA turns the default CRD policy into an upsert, CRDs get applied on every upgrade

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1588 · opened on Sep 16, 2026
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• HelmRelease delete unnecessarily requires list+watch RBAC on serviceaccounts

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1586 · opened on Sep 10, 2026

• Drift detection never re-renders templates, so charts using lookup drift out of sync silently

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1583 · opened on Sep 3, 2026
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• helm-controller panics on hooks with helm.sh/hook-output-log-policy (nil HookOutputFunc)

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1562 · opened on Aug 19, 2026
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• HelmRelease retries forever on StatefulSet immutable-field Forbidden with no Stalled remediation

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1559 · opened on Aug 14, 2026

• CancelHealthCheckOnNewRevision starts and interrupts extra rollbacks

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1557 · opened on Jul 29, 2026
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• YAML anchors/aliases spanning resources break during post-render: "unknown anchor referenced"

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1556 · opened on Jul 29, 2026
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• bug: forced upgrades fail with strict decoding errors when chart schemas contain minor warnings

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1553 · opened on Jul 27, 2026

• RetryOnFailure should support a bounded retries config (currently retries forever, never reaches Stalled)

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1551 · opened on Jul 24, 2026
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• no rollback/uninstall strategy for CRDs

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1524 · opened on Jun 17, 2026
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• UninstallRemediation missing defer summarize(req), Ready condition not updated

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1488 · opened on May 16, 2026
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• Drift detection incorrectly detects aggregated ClusterRole/Role rules as drift

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1419 · opened on Feb 25, 2026
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• Increase number of items in .status.history to five

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1400 · opened on Feb 2, 2026
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• HelmRelease nested object values not properly merged with chart defaults

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1375 · opened on Jan 6, 2026

• Unexpected behaviour while using preserveValues

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1371 · opened on Dec 10, 2025

• Can One HelmRelease Act as an Umbrella for Others?

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1349 · opened on Nov 17, 2025
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• How to prevent Flux from recreating recourses

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1340 · opened on Oct 22, 2025
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• Drift detection causes failure when resource has the same envvar name multiple times

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1333 · opened on Oct 8, 2025

• Docs: Inconsistent architecture diagrams

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1301 · opened on Sep 16, 2025

• Enable helm controller to detect and pick up hashed configmaps and secrets

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1270 · opened on Jul 22, 2025
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• Affected by Helm MaxDecompressedFileSize

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1264 · opened on Jul 18, 2025
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• disableTakeOwnership should not be at false by default (dangerous default behavior)

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1251 · opened on Jul 9, 2025

• Several problems when reconciling a deletion

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1250 · opened on Jul 3, 2025

• Add a Security Insights file

  fluxcd/helm-controller#1201 · opened on Mar 28, 2025
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