diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 3c28e2d0..2db6cdd4 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "helm/applications/base": "0.4.1",
+  "helm/applications/base": "0.5.0",
   "helm/applications/cavern": "0.8.0",
   "helm/applications/posix-mapper": "0.6.0",
   "helm/applications/science-portal": "1.2.1",
diff --git a/helm/applications/base/CHANGELOG.md b/helm/applications/base/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cf557450
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helm/applications/base/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Changelog
+
+## [0.5.0](https://github.com/opencadc/deployments/compare/base-0.4.1...base-0.5.0) (2026-07-17)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* remove base and update skaha ([bad25eb](https://github.com/opencadc/deployments/commit/bad25eb057d218353e4e72b4938cb1ecb4411182))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **helm:** added chart lock files ([e81b72d](https://github.com/opencadc/deployments/commit/e81b72d06dacf2a2c797afc5368db81f57c95bc1))
+* **maintainers:** now need atleast 15 commits in the last 12 months to be considered a maintainer ([02954e4](https://github.com/opencadc/deployments/commit/02954e4e190774cf4756e9b3f90594eac2a80499))
+* **merge:** conflict ([8c14f17](https://github.com/opencadc/deployments/commit/8c14f1738feba41cd6ae78812b77661e543a2617))
+* **pre-commit:** removed helm-docs version footer, since its disabled by default in go install and was causing ci issues ([6d84426](https://github.com/opencadc/deployments/commit/6d844263ef0af30047f09e47d6c0c63ae7d1c1c9))
+* **release:** helm-docs now add the release-please slug, renovate now updates AppVersion, deprecated requirement for maintainers in helm charts, updated release please config, updated release-matrix logic to properly create downstream payloads for releasing charts ([2c2b931](https://github.com/opencadc/deployments/commit/2c2b9313c469475bd2b1f6bcfdb3b041a0f0f715))