<p>I just installed Helm v3.4.2 and the command below prints many packages as DEPRECATED in the description:</p>
<p><code>helm search repo stable</code></p>
<p>Output:</p>
<pre><code>stable/acs-engine-autoscaler            2.2.2           2.1.1                   DEPRECATED Scales worker nodes within agent pools 
stable/aerospike                        0.3.5           v4.5.0.5                DEPRECATED A Helm chart for Aerospike in Kubern...
stable/airflow                          7.13.3          1.10.12                 DEPRECATED - please use: https://github.com/air...
stable/ambassador                       5.3.2           0.86.1                  DEPRECATED A Helm chart for Datawire Ambassador
...
</code></pre>
<p>Why only 18 on 284 packages are not deprecated ?</p>
<p>Do that mean for these packages we have to add external repositories ?</p>

<p>The underlying reason &quot;why&quot; is that the CNCF no longer wanted to pay the costs in hosting a single monolithic repository:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/10/07/important-reminder-for-all-helm-users-stable-incubator-repos-are-deprecated-and-all-images-are-changing-location/" rel="noreferrer">https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/10/07/important-reminder-for-all-helm-users-stable-incubator-repos-are-deprecated-and-all-images-are-changing-location/</a></p>
<p>This means that the charts are now scattered across various repositories, hosted by a range of organisations.</p>
<p>The Artifact Hub aggregates these so you can search them:</p>
<p><a href="https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?page=1&amp;ts_query_web=mysql" rel="noreferrer">https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?page=1&amp;ts_query_web=mysql</a></p>
<p>We're now in a very confusing situation where if you want to install a package, you're very likely to find several different repositories hosting different versions and variants, and you need to decide which one to trust and go for.</p>
<p>Very likely many of these repos will get deprecated themselves.</p>
<p>It's all a bit wild west right now, and it's a shame there is no longer a single &quot;stable&quot; one shop stop.</p>
