Helm v3.20.1 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.
The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there!
- Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack:
- for questions and just to hang out
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Hang out at the Public Developer Call: Thursday, 9:30 Pacific via Zoom
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages
Notable Changes
- Backport of #31644: Fixed a bug where user-provided nil value was not preserved when chart has an empty map or no default for a key
- Backport of #31601: Fixed a bug where OCI references with tag+digest failed with "invalid byte" error
Installation and Upgrading
Download Helm v3.20.1. The common platform binaries are here:
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The Quickstart Guide will get you going from there. For upgrade instructions or detailed installation notes, check the install guide. You can also use a script to install on any system with bash.
What's Next
- 4.2.0 and 3.21.0 are the next minor releases and will be on May 13, 2026
- 4.1.4 and 3.20.2 are the next patch releases and will be on April 8, 2026
Changelog
- chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates a2369ca71c0ef633bf6e4fccd66d634eb379b371 (dependabot[bot])
- add image index test 90e10564f7ae746a153f3a03006e7061a54ad490 (Pedro Tôrres)
- fix pulling charts from OCI indices 911f2e908ae40b01ca95b857e94b8894043f64fd (Pedro Tôrres)
- Remove refactorring changes from coalesce_test.go 76dad33fb1a2b6451920429b4f5f2dd575ea71bb (Evans Mungai)
- Fix import 45c12f71407b6054a37d3e425d5293ee79a1ab37 (Evans Mungai)
- Update pkg/chart/common/util/coalesce_test.go 26c6f19f967941dbe53bfb5e52d419b3b3e46075 (Evans Mungai)
- Fix lint warning 09f5129d49a14c9336cea6f33adf5f52889915ef (Evans Mungai)
- Preserve nil values in chart already 417deb2b6b7504357b0f580b76f5eed1bb8a5270 (Evans Mungai)
- fix(values): preserve nil values when chart default is empty map 5417bfaa84871feae9c8171f192e2f9796475054 (Evans Mungai)