Is Helm chart removed?

[muvaf]

What happened:

https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/external-dns/ seems to be offline and we are not able to use the charts from there:

failed to fetch https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/external-dns/index.yaml : 404 Not Found

What you expected to happen:
Helm installation to work.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

helm repo add external-dns https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/external-dns/

Error: looks like "https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/external-dns/" is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: failed to fetch https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/external-dns/index.yaml : 404 Not Found

Anything else we need to know?:

Environment:

• External-DNS version (use external-dns --version):
• DNS provider:
• Others:

[shahmirwahid-bolt]

We are getting the same issue.

[isugimpy]

Looks like something broke Github Pages for this repo. The docs site is 404ing as well.

[masterkain]

branch gh-pages was deleted at 2025-11-08 16:07:14Z

[misterek]

Seems like @Raffo may have been cleaning up old branches and accidentally got that one?

[misterek]

Needs a restore here I think: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns/activity?ref=gh-pages (three dots on the upper right will do it if you have permissions)

[lancelind]

Can anyone with permissions help restore gh-pages branch so we can address helm chart failures? Maybe someone from code owners?
cc:
@AndrewCharlesHay
@ivankatliarchuk
@mloiseleur
@Raffo
@szuecs
@vflaux

[szuecs]

I restored it
Thanks for telling us and sorry for the inconvenience.

[lancelind]

Thank you!

[Raffo]

Thank you @szuecs , I appreciated. I did a long overdue cleanup and I forgot to exclude such branches. We have to adjust the prow rule for branch cleanup, to avoid having to redo such an operation again. Thankfully, the pages and help branches are automated and not hard to restore.