Add support for Helm 4

Summary

Helm 4 has released on 2025-11-12 and features and

represents a significant evolution from v3, introducing breaking changes, new architectural patterns, and enhanced functionality while maintaining backwards compatibility for charts.

While Helm 3 continues to get updates for now, we should look into supporting Helm 4.

Acceptance Criteria

  • CI image introduced: GitLab chart: Add Helm 4 CI image (gitlab-org/gitlab-build-images!1038 - merged)
  • GitLab chart CI updated to use Helm 4 (maybe with Helm 3 in parallel?)
  • Breaking changes addressed
  • Tool documentation updated: https://docs.gitlab.com/charts/installation/tools/#helm
Edited Jan 22, 2026 by Clemens Beck
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