diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 2f0ed73..428b770 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.4.3-dev
+1.4.3
diff --git a/deployment-package/common/registry-akri.yaml b/deployment-package/common/registry-akri.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ed0f44..0000000
--- a/deployment-package/common/registry-akri.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2025 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
----
-specSchema: "Registry"
-schemaVersion: "0.1"
-$schema: "https://schema.intel.com/catalog.orchestrator/0.1/schema"
-
-name: "akri-helm-registry"
-description: "Public registry for akri chart"
-type: "HELM"
-rootUrl: "https://project-akri.github.io/akri/"
diff --git a/deployment-package/usb/akri-values.yaml b/deployment-package/usb/akri-values.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b7fb25..0000000
--- a/deployment-package/usb/akri-values.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
----
-useDevelopmentContainers: false
-kubernetesDistro: k3s
-# agent:
-#  nodeSelectors:
-#    kubernetes.io/os: linux
-controller:
-  enabled: false
-  image:
-    pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-webhookConfiguration:
-  image:
-    pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-udev:
-  discovery:
-    enabled: true
-#      nodeSelectors:
-#        kubernetes.io/os: linux
diff --git a/deployment-package/usb/application.yaml b/deployment-package/usb/application.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 31d40a4..0000000
--- a/deployment-package/usb/application.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
----
-specSchema: Application
-schemaVersion: "0.1"
-$schema: "https://schema.intel.com/catalog.orchestrator/0.1/schema"
-
-name: akri
-version: 0.14.0
-description: "akri base application"
-kind: extension
-
-helmRegistry: "akri-helm-registry"
-chartName: "akri"
-chartVersion: 0.13.8
-
-profiles:
-  - name: default
-    displayName: Default
-    valuesFileName: akri-values.yaml
-
----
-specSchema: Application
-schemaVersion: "0.1"
-$schema: "https://schema.intel.com/catalog.orchestrator/0.1/schema"
-
-name: usb-device-plugin
-version: 1.2.0
-description: "Exposes USB devices to the k8s cluster"
-kind: extension
-
-helmRegistry: "intel-rs-helm"
-chartName: "edge-orch/en/charts/akri"
-chartVersion: 1.1.1
-
-profiles:
-  - name: default
-    displayName: Default
-    valuesFileName: usb-device-values.yaml
-    parameterTemplates:
-      - name: usbList
-        displayName: "USB dongle List"
-        mandatory: true
-        type: string
diff --git a/deployment-package/usb/deployment-package.yaml b/deployment-package/usb/deployment-package.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e9e333..0000000
--- a/deployment-package/usb/deployment-package.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
----
-specSchema: "DeploymentPackage"
-schemaVersion: "0.1"
-$schema: "https://schema.intel.com/catalog.orchestrator/0.1/schema"
-
-name: "usb"
-description: "Brings USB allocation for containers/VMs running on k8s cluster"
-version: 0.5.0
-forbidsMultipleDeployments: true
-kind: extension
-
-applications:
-  - name: akri
-    version: 0.14.0
-  - name: usb-device-plugin
-    version: 1.2.0
-
-defaultNamespaces:
-  usb-device-plugin: akri
-  akri: akri
-
-namespaces:
-  - name: akri
-    labels:
-      pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce: privileged
-      name: akri
-
-deploymentProfiles:
-  - name: "default-profile"
-    displayName: "Default Configuration"
-    applicationProfiles:
-      - application: "usb-device-plugin"
-        profile: "default"
-      - application: "akri"
-        profile: "default"
diff --git a/deployment-package/usb/usb-device-values.yaml b/deployment-package/usb/usb-device-values.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4cb3fbf..0000000
--- a/deployment-package/usb/usb-device-values.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
----
-
-# format: name;vid;pid,name;vid;pid
-# sample: wifi-dongle;0bda;0811,gsm-dongle;0bda;2838
-usbList: ""
-
-# This block can deliver definitions of akri
-extensionImages:
-  - "ghcr.io/project-akri/akri/agent:v0.12.20"
-  - "ghcr.io/project-akri/akri/udev-discovery:v0.12.20"
-  - "ghcr.io/project-akri/akri/controller:v0.12.20"
-  - "ghcr.io/project-akri/akri/webhook-configuration:v0.12.20"
-  - "registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen:v1.1.1"
diff --git a/helm/akri/.gitignore b/helm/akri/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fddbaa..0000000
--- a/helm/akri/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2023 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-charts/
-Chart.lock
diff --git a/helm/akri/.helmignore b/helm/akri/.helmignore
deleted file mode 100644
index a0759cf..0000000
--- a/helm/akri/.helmignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# Patterns to ignore when building packages.
-# This supports shell glob matching, relative path matching, and
-# negation (prefixed with !). Only one pattern per line.
-.DS_Store
-# Common VCS dirs
-.git/
-.gitignore
-.bzr/
-.bzrignore
-.hg/
-.hgignore
-.svn/
-# Common backup files
-*.swp
-*.bak
-*.tmp
-*.orig
-*~
-# Various IDEs
-.project
-.idea/
-*.tmproj
-.vscode/
diff --git a/helm/akri/Chart.yaml b/helm/akri/Chart.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c3164e..0000000
--- a/helm/akri/Chart.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
----
-apiVersion: v2
-name: akri
-description: A wrapper Helm chart for Kubernetes
-
-# A chart can be either an 'application' or a 'library' chart.
-#
-# Application charts are a collection of templates that can be packaged into versioned archives
-# to be deployed.
-#
-# Library charts provide useful utilities or functions for the chart developer. They're included as
-# a dependency of application charts to inject those utilities and functions into the rendering
-# pipeline. Library charts do not define any templates and therefore cannot be deployed.
-type: application
-
-# This is the chart version. This version number should be incremented each time you make changes
-# to the chart and its templates, including the app version.
-# Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
-version: 1.1.1
diff --git a/helm/akri/README.md b/helm/akri/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c6d94b8..0000000
--- a/helm/akri/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-<!---
-  SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2025 Intel Corporation
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
--->
-
-# Akri Helm Chart
-
-[https://github.com/project-akri/akri](https://github.com/project-akri/akri)
-
-## To update deps
-
-`helm dependency update extensions/usb/helm/akri/`
-
-## To package chart
-
-`helm package extensions/usb/helm/akri`
diff --git a/helm/akri/templates/akri-configurations.yaml b/helm/akri/templates/akri-configurations.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 16c034d..0000000
--- a/helm/akri/templates/akri-configurations.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-{{ if not (eq .Values.usbList "") }}
-{{ $usbs := split "," .Values.usbList }}
-{{ range $i, $v := $usbs }}
-{{ $parts := split ";" $v }}
----
-apiVersion: akri.sh/v0
-kind: Configuration
-metadata:
-  name: {{ $parts._0 }}
-  namespace: {{ $.Release.Namespace }}
-spec:
-  discoveryHandler:
-    name: udev
-    discoveryDetails: |+
-      udevRules:
-      - SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="{{ $parts._1 }}", ATTR{idProduct}=="{{ $parts._2 }}"
-  brokerProperties: {}
-  capacity: 1
-{{ end }}
-{{ end }}
diff --git a/helm/akri/values.yaml b/helm/akri/values.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4898336..0000000
--- a/helm/akri/values.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
----
-# format: name;vid;pid,name;vid;pid
-usbList: ""  # sample: wifi-dongle;0bda;0811,gsm-dongle;0bda;2838
-
-# This block can deliver definitions of akri
-extensionImages:
-  - "ghcr.io/project-akri/akri/agent:v0.12.20"
-  - "ghcr.io/project-akri/akri/udev-discovery:v0.12.20"
-  - "ghcr.io/project-akri/akri/controller:v0.12.20"
-  - "ghcr.io/project-akri/akri/webhook-configuration:v0.12.20"
-  - "registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen:v1.1.1"
diff --git a/manifest/manifest.yaml b/manifest/manifest.yaml
index 2ceba65..9e59170 100644
--- a/manifest/manifest.yaml
+++ b/manifest/manifest.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ---
 metadata:
   schemaVersion: 0.3.0
-  release: 1.4.2
+  release: 1.4.3
 lpke:
   deploymentPackages:
     - dpkg: edge-orch/en/file/cert-manager
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ lpke:
       version: 0.3.0
     - dpkg: edge-orch/en/file/trusted-compute
       version: 0.6.0
-    - dpkg: edge-orch/en/file/usb
-      version: 0.5.0
     - dpkg: edge-orch/en/file/virtualization
       version: 0.6.0
     - dpkg: edge-orch/en/file/observability