App Versioning in Helm Chart releases

[commx]

In bc14dac we have seen a version bump for the Helm Chart version (6.21.0 to 6.21.1) but a minor downgrade for the actual app version (6.10.5 to 6.8.6). That doesn't look right to me.

Can someone confirm if this is the intended behaviour?

Background: I performed an upgrade for a Rocketchat instance via Helm from 6.21.0 to 6.21.1. The retention configuration was broken (opening the Retention Policy settings always resulted in Application GUI crash; all DMs older than 1 day were pruned. After performing a rollback to Chart version 6.21.0 the Retention Policy settings worked again.

[ben-ganley]

Also noticed the same issue, the newer chart versions seem to have varying supported releases in them. Upgrading the chart version can easily result in a downgrade of app version and a broken application.

[lyz-code]

The management of the appVersion between helm-chart version promotion is quite worrisome:

Chart version	appVersion
6.22.0	6.12.1
6.22.1	6.11.3
6.22.2	6.9.7
6.23.0	6.10.6
6.23.1	6.8.7
6.23.2	6.13.0

I'm shocked by the lack of consistency, I'm sure that each of these upgrades would break the application.

Please amend your release process to fix this bug, as for right now it gives us sysadmins absolutely zero trust to upgrade

[commx]

@debdutdeb can you bring some light into this?

[debdutdeb]

I can tell that this happened due to a bug in automation. Until that is fixed, I have disabled it, and further releases will be made manually when needed.