# v2.17.0 Release - 11/13/2025

**Linux amd64**

`curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.17.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin`

**Linux arm64**

`curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.17.0/skaffold-linux-arm64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin`

**macOS amd64**

`curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.17.0/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin`

**macOS arm64**

`curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.17.0/skaffold-darwin-arm64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin`

**Windows**

https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.17.0/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

**Docker image**

`gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:v2.17.0`

Highlights:

New Features and Additions:

* feat(helm): Support Helm v4 for rendering and deployment, drop Helm v2 support for rendering since `helm version --client` parameter is not supported anymore in v4 [#9892](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9892)

* Add support for workerpool resource. [#9852](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9852)

Fixes:

* fix: Avoid sync retry if file/directory was not found [#9721](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9721)

* fix: Enable registries with self-signed certificates [#9863](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9863)

* fix: use print-access-token to allow iam impersonation [#9841](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9841)

* fix: open skaffold-overrides.yaml: no such file or directory since up grading to skaffold "v2.15.0" (#9788) [#9849](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9849)

* fix: handle heredoc in Dockerfile [#9835](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9835)

* fix: Update PrintNamespacesList to use a YAML parser for multiple manifest files (#9825) [#9833](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9833)

* fix: update debug skip probes annotation to be Kubernetes valid annotation [#9831](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9831)

* fix: Update PrintNamespacesList to use a YAML parser for multiple manifest files [#9825](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9825)

* fix(helm): Fix unformatted error message [#9814](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9814)

Updates and Refactors:

Docs, Test, and Release Updates:

* chore: upgrade golang to 1.25.4 [#9909](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9909)

* chore: bump rack from 2.2.14 to 2.2.20 in /integration/examples/ruby/backend [#9907](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9907)

* chore: bump github.com/opencontainers/selinux from 1.12.0 to 1.13.0 [#9908](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9908)

* chore: bump the golang group with 10 updates [#9905](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9905)

* chore: bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.28 to 1.7.29 [#9903](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9903)

* chore: fix the broken integration tests [#9904](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9904)

* chore: bump the golang group with 3 updates [#9899](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9899)

* chore: bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 5 in the github-actions group [#9897](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9897)

* chore: bump the golang group with 2 updates [#9896](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9896)

* chore: send one PR a week with _all_ golang dependabot updates [#9888](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9888)

* chore: tell dependabot to ignore the examples directories [#9887](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9887)

* chore: upgrade the rest of the dependencies [#9886](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9886)

* Fix minor typo in custom-actions.md [#9873](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9873)

* chore: bump github/codeql-action from 3 to 4 [#9879](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9879)

* chore: bump actions/setup-go from 5 to 6 [#9865](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9865)

* chore: bump ossf/scorecard-action from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3 [#9874](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9874)

* chore: upgrade a lot of dependencies [#9884](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9884)

* test: fix the Cloud Run Worker Pool integration test [#9885](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9885)

* chore: upgrade golang to 1.25.3 [#9882](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9882)

* chore: upgrade golangcli-lint [#9881](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9881)

* chore: pin the Windows unit tests to Windows 2022. [#9880](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9880)

* chore: upgrade to Go 1.25.0 [#9859](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9859)

* chore: bump github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0 [#9854](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9854)

* chore: bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 [#9851](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9851)

* chore: bump actions/setup-java from 4 to 5 [#9858](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9858)

* chore: bump github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0 [#9836](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9836)

* [bug]: Support helm depBuild flags for helm deploys [#9808](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9808)

* Fix a small typo in helm documentation [#9847](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9847)

* chore: fix the proto generation [#9844](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9844)

* chore: fix the scorecard-action [#9842](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9842)

* chore: bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.7.0 to 0.27.0 in /integration/examples/grpc-e2e-tests/cloud-spanner-bootstrap [#9840](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9840)

* chore: updates to the GitHub Actions workflows [#9822](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9822)

* chore: bump rack from 2.2.13 to 2.2.14 in /integration/examples/ruby/backend [#9818](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9818)

* chore: reduce dependabot PRs [#9819](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9819)

* chore: bump rack from 2.2.13 to 2.2.14 in /examples/ruby/backend [#9817](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9817)

* doc: state default parameter for manifests::rawYaml [#9816](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9816)

* cicd: migrate internal build config to internal config repository. [#9810](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9810)

* docs: add a KEYS file for verifying our releases [#9813](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/pull/9813)

Huge thanks goes out to all of our contributors for this release:

- Andreas Sommer

- Darien Lin

- dependabot[bot]

- Halvard Skogsrud

- Kaarel Raspel

- Katie Zhang

- Marcin Skalski

- Matt Santa

- menahyouyeah

- Michael Plump

- MochikoNyan

- Nelson Chen

- Paridhi Shah

- Sławek Zborowski

- Steve Foster

- Suleiman Dibirov

- timtlchen

- Vihang Mehta

# v2.16.0 Release - 05/02/2025

**Linux amd64**

`curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.16.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin`