v0.17.x Stable: Current Status at v0.17.2

Helm v0.17.x has completed release-candidate hardening and shipped stable. The latest release on main is v0.17.2.

What shipped in 0.17.x

• Stable diagnostics/logging delivery: task log viewing, structured support export, service health visibility, and manager detection diagnostics.
• Onboarding and detection hardening: detection-only first-run flow, immediate presence signals, and version-loading states while probes finish.
• Manager execution-control improvements: explicit executable-path and install-method selection with persistence and runtime command routing.
• Manager enablement enforcement: disabled managers are now excluded from task/search/refresh flows and their in-flight tasks are canceled.
• Control Center and inspector polish: execution-plan presentation scoping, diagnostics usability improvements, and dark-mode list-surface fixes.

Release status

• v0.17.0: stable cut from the full RC lineage (rc.1 through rc.5).
• v0.17.1: stable patch correcting artifact-release lineage after the failed v0.17.0 build attempt.
• v0.17.2: current stable patch with manager-selection execution routing, onboarding fixes, diagnostics UX improvements, and release-flow guardrail follow-up.

What’s next

Current planning focus is 0.18.x local security groundwork while monitoring post-release feedback from v0.17.2.

If you hit reproducible issues, please file details in GitHub with environment, expected behavior, and observed behavior.