ESS Community Helm Chart 26.10.3 (2026-10-23)

Changed

• The values.schema.json compilation now uses $defs and $ref instead of inlining every referenced sub-schema. (#1693)

• Allow configuration of matrix-tools initContainer resources independently of the component they're being used for.

  • matrixTools.resources.renderConfig for all render-config initContainers
  • matrixTools.resources.tcpWait for all initContainers that wait for Postgres or Redis/Valkey

  (#1711)

• Upgrade Element Admin to v0.1.18.

  Highlights:

  • Upgrade base image to nginx-unprivileged v1.31.7
  • Use the stable endpoint for discovering the authentication server metadata

  Full Changelogs:

  • v0.1.17
  • v0.1.18

  (#1712, #1730)

• Upgrade matrix-tools to v0.10.5.

  Highlights:

  • Refresh dependencies and base-image

  (#1713)

• Components depending on Redis or Valkey now wait for it to be up using tcpwait matrix-tools command. (#1714, #1720)

• Allow configuration of matrix-tools initContainer resources independently of the component they're being used for.

  • matrixTools.resources.renderConfig for all render-config initContainers
  • matrixTools.resources.tcpWait for all initContainers that wait for Postgres

  (#1720)

• Upgrade Synapse to v1.163.1.

  Highlights:

  • Update certificate authorities trust stores

  Full Changelogs:

  • v1.163.1

  (#1728)

• Upgrade Matrix Authentication Service to v1.27.1.

  Highlights:

  • Update certificate authorities trust stores

  Full Changelogs

  • v1.27.1

  (#1729)

Internal

• CI: Implement a helper function to actively wait for chart resources in order to Helm v4 flakes. (#1687)
• CI: Replace pytest-kubernetes Kubectl exec and wait with lightkube AsyncClient exec and wait to profit from native async semantics. (#1689)
• CI: Retry using curl instead of kubernetes container restarts. (#1695)
• CI: Check a release's Deployments, StatefulSets and CRDs concurrently and allow up to 5 minutes for them to become ready, instead of 1 minute for its CRDs. (#1696)
• Exclude renovate[bot] from changelog and copyright headers workflow jobs. (#1699)
• CI: Do not rollback k3d on setup failure, in order to get container logs. (#1702)
• Don't manage values.yaml with Renovate as we assemble it from fragments. (#1707)
• CI: Build matrix-tools on every pytest CI run. (#1708, #1709)
• CI: Split manifests and integration tests in 2 distinct workflow. (#1715)
• CI: Validate that components depending on postgres have a db-wait init container. (#1717)
• CI: Maintain go version for matrix-tools using renovate. (#1726)