v2.19.0 Release - 04/23/2026

Linux amd64 curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.19.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Linux arm64 curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.19.0/skaffold-linux-arm64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS amd64 curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.19.0/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS arm64 curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.19.0/skaffold-darwin-arm64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Windows https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.19.0/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Docker image gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:v2.19.0

Note: This release comes with a new config version, v4beta14. To upgrade your skaffold.yaml, use skaffold fix. If you choose not to upgrade, skaffold will auto-upgrade as best as it can.

Highlights: New config version: v4beta14.

New Features and Additions:

• feat: add generic BuildArgs for BuildpackArtifact #9745

Fixes:

• fix(cloudrun): tail logs from all services concurrently #10058
• fix: add --set and --set-value-file flag support to delete command and unit tests #10054
• fix(helm): Make Helm 4 plugin version a semver string #10047
• fix: update gcr.io/kpt-fn/ to ghcr.io/kptdev/krm-functions-catalog fo… #10020

Updates and Refactors:

• chore: updating vendors #10063
• chore: bump github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 from 5.17.1 to 5.18.0 #10052
• chore: fix whitespace on bazel file #10061
• chore: skaffold/v4beta14 creation #10059
• chore: bump github.com/moby/spdystream from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1 #10051
• chore: Migrate gsutil usage to gcloud storage #10002
• chore: bump github.com/sigstore/timestamp-authority/v2 from 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 #10048
• chore: bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk from 1.42.0 to 1.43.0 #10044
• chore: Upgrade golang version to 1.26.2 #10043
• chore: release 2.18.3 #10042
• chore: bump rack from 2.2.22 to 2.2.23 in /examples/ruby/backend #10035
• chore: bump rack from 2.2.22 to 2.2.23 in /integration/examples/ruby/backend #10036
• chore: bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 from 4.1.3 to 4.1.4 #10037
• chore: bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 from 4.1.3 to 4.1.4 in /examples/grpc-e2e-tests/service #10038
• chore: bump github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 from 5.17.0 to 5.17.1 #10032
• chore: bump github.com/moby/buildkit from 0.28.0 to 0.28.1 #10028
• chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.56.3 to 1.79.3 in /examples/grpc-e2e-tests/service #10022
• chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.79.2 to 1.79.3 #10018

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

• Andreas Sommer
• bhandarivijay-png
• Bogdan Nazarenko
• Darien Lin
• dependabot[bot]
• menahyouyeah