diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 72476d6df..f5915f7e1 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-ARG GO_VERSION=1.19
-ARG XX_VERSION=1.1.0
+ARG GO_VERSION=1.24
+ARG XX_VERSION=1.6.1
 
 FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM tonistiigi/xx:${XX_VERSION} AS xx
 
 # Docker buildkit multi-arch build requires golang alpine
-FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM golang:${GO_VERSION}-alpine as builder
+FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM golang:${GO_VERSION}-alpine AS builder
 
 # Copy the build utilities.
 COPY --from=xx / /
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ COPY internal/ internal/
 ENV CGO_ENABLED=0
 RUN xx-go build -trimpath -a -o helm-controller main.go
 
-FROM alpine:3.17
+FROM alpine:3.22
 
 # link repo to the GitHub Container Registry image
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/fluxcd/helm-controller"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1e9ff704c..1b77f173b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@
 [![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/fluxcd/helm-controller.svg)](https://github.com/fluxcd/helm-controller/blob/main/LICENSE)
 [![release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/fluxcd/helm-controller/all.svg)](https://github.com/fluxcd/helm-controller/releases)
 
+## VGS fork
+
+```
+today=$(date +%Y%m%d)
+export IMG="190066226418.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/infra/helm-controller:v0.29.0-$today" 
+make docker-build
+assume presidio/infra
+make docker-push
+```
+
 The helm-controller is a Kubernetes operator, allowing one to declaratively
 manage Helm chart releases. It is part of a composable [GitOps toolkit](https://fluxcd.io/flux/components)
 and depends on [source-controller][] to acquire the Helm charts from Helm