Helm v3.20.0 is a feature 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

• SDK: bump k8s API versions to v0.35.0
• v3 backport: Fixed a bug where helm uninstall with --keep-history did not suspend previous deployed releases https://github.com/helm/helm/pull/12564
• v3 backport: Bump Go version to v1.25

Installation and Upgrading

Download Helm v3.20.0. The common platform binaries are here:

• MacOS amd64 (checksum / 724aef60f737ca73cfcc77924219dbfb229dde8492b2722cb372da617fd77367)
• MacOS arm64 (checksum / 1cb8022ef9c88026adf236cbdf02a80bf7678632d1c39d3d8045e815959ab20e)
• Linux amd64 (checksum / dbb4c8fc8e19d159d1a63dda8db655f9ffa4aac1b9a6b188b34a40957119b286)
• Linux arm (checksum / e66b9bcb51130f372b4750b2da83679e59d04633bfa825a1936c0b1039035bf0)
• Linux arm64 (checksum / bfb14953295d5324d47ab55f3dfba6da28d46c848978c8fbf412d4271bdc29f1)
• Linux i386 (checksum / e8e39f6df8b1c6d9d0f98f658d619c22c5a249a72975510d367def5e19adc7eb)
• Linux ppc64le (checksum / 3a44cf2df45274f907743997b9cef069e94589238324cf5116f9a3c092c743bf)
• Linux s390x (checksum / f38b6bb56db05fb7da82668d0cc82470a07fe17a5f881378d536cee68384c974)
• Linux riscv64 (checksum / b4336a2bf9b9a914897cb36b4343d4fd583cb4703dc2478d696a667391f30f2c)
• Windows amd64 (checksum / f9c7f686788d7b78775d3a3592fd98596aa825010cb9d157c9fbe3baabee1084)
• Windows arm64 (checksum / 4095cb1c46e29e9a7487fdbbee384d14656d3fa43dd8ef789061db6e29f0457b)

This release was signed with 208D D36E D5BB 3745 A167 43A4 C7C6 FBB5 B91C 1155 and can be found at @scottrigby keybase account. Please use the attached signatures for verifying this release using gpg.

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

• 4.1.1 and 3.20.1 are the next patch releases, scheduled for March 11, 2026
• 4.2.0 and 3.21.0 are the next minor releases, scheduled for May 13, 2026

Changelog

• bump version to v3.20 f6e17f673581b076782a0480d9c76938eca13e10 (Scott Rigby)
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 4f5a655876a97f46458c488d96c3c486e8f8463d (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.38.0 to 0.39.0 65c504a4ae9f9fd7b6ed6e4fbc29a1380a2da211 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/foxcpp/go-mockdns from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 f3b8af418e4379ef76d95c889435b6bda4e7edfa (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates 89c2c615929dbefd2a9c91a0057136d1f7924e6d (dependabot[bot])
• [dev-v3] Replace deprecated NewSimpleClientset 526076ee3bb864707badb22b7f0f446181f628f6 (George Jenkins)
• [dev-v3] Bump Go v1.25, golangci-lint v2 0ae8e4f2cbe418b5262b7f6d1acfe69d9de3e4e4 (George Jenkins)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/BurntSushi/toml from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 e0d2595407bb97cfb4c6049e6de4cc518530a168 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.29 to 1.7.30 858acb17c3b1c505b806d9fe936b0336dd7f8bfd (dependabot[bot])
• fix(rollback): errors.Is instead of string comp 0cd9a60723d2fde199a625582ff068f5a253886c (Hidde Beydals)
• fix(uninstall): supersede deployed releases 8bb0b372268b45b260593061450f1c9dca9ddbb8 (Hidde Beydals)
• Use latest patch release of Go in releases 930ba6fc1333855a6e5ad2124ff2fb696805a169 (Matt Farina)
• chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates 582211cc451ed386c90f6cd22ba9649d5f97fe12 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.45.0 to 0.46.0 585c25c5c5f86907ece4de4a3be57f80539e4459 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0 6f17d460bd31896add1655644339755b8295fd82 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0 46ff4277006b4b40844f9239ca08a55dd9f1aed9 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 28b813a7f4fe0c9f001aa3dd9c0250761ff062f8 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/rubenv/sql-migrate from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 5dde5d67b4a2dc7e6d63db3b42ce7a69c5ef6412 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.44.0 to 0.45.0 362900b0644c18de506630573310dee9b29c1337 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin ec61de556e238a31f560b093b9ed8ccb5f3d0c78 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates a490607e2bcf64f61b99b01919aa3b1265afd4ad (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.30.0 to 0.31.0 8509bcc2af0cf49734ad41153604aaedcd3de0ad (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.44.0 d495a9402f620ed1d627021c44fb0259bf915b71 (dependabot[bot])
• Remove dev-v3 helm-latest-version publish 01dc6cc2cd63f121d0226544b3e5eb4b4dc6159e (George Jenkins)
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.36.0 to 0.37.0 6647f847c235828f2a87bfa3e63ca94aad8f0c54 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.28 to 1.7.29 b548118d29bd2eff97815a2f71ebd7db25e33f85 (dependabot[bot])
• Revert "pkg/registry: Login option for passing TLS config in memory" 6a67b553b478a8f2ad0b5bebbf79e1debdc839a4 (Scott Rigby)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin 6d4f8c01be77831b1fcab035bab24f828c093958 (dependabot[bot])
• jsonschema: warn and ignore unresolved URN $ref to match v3.18.4 3f0da15437c0f0c9b38816baf609b87d94a46f40 (Benoit Tigeot)
• Fix helm pull untar dir check with repo urls e5e101cced707693ff7fd26880fd8c537c4297f0 (Luna Stadler)
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.42.0 to 0.43.0 6aae923d7f6cae85be0988605b2148bb006679b8 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/gofrs/flock from 0.12.1 to 0.13.0 1900c6a316ca12bcdcf8505d1e3ce17d4e681855 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0 43e9297d0f9e2d43dd54a45820b900586815186a (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin d347e2bab9b60b8c58ce59b16cbcb4a6639a182f (dependabot[bot])
• [backport] fix: get-helm-3 script use helm3-latest-version bd337b46bcce12bd903dc41c73340940fdcf8dab (George Jenkins)
• pkg/registry: Login option for passing TLS config in memory b80959f24fab6e081eb3fd73bae35729f239d07c (Matheus Pimenta)
• chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates 1ac9d34346c65fc3d44e6bfea73d2271528923eb (dependabot[bot])
• Fix deprecation warning 9a366b447452e78b092b1a5267d7efc9bbe74f11 (Benoit Tigeot)
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.41.0 to 0.42.0 0c5a17e49539e3f973081ba5961030702bf01508 (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.34.0 to 0.35.0 b9990214c9b20a553bf12ee1c2e0a35b93964099 (dependabot[bot])
• Avoid "panic: interface conversion: interface {} is nil" 2fe49f99ce39e9a33c77b664a8b9cef6117c1c3b (Benoit Tigeot)
• bump version to v3.19.0 c3610abd2dfd1bf21914db480e76f2358039defb (Scott Rigby)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.7 to 1.0.10 73b449f80b4eb98fd099d40272132bced948259b (dependabot[bot])
• fix: set repo authorizer in registry.Client.Resolve() ffbc53723a47fe0b47551c35963ef8b7f7523832 (Eric Stroczynski)
• fix null merge f0b699eabba56ef3057561779dc30fafc5c07064 (Ben Foster)
• Add timeout flag to repo add and update flags 79a9cc5653eb5a6f58e5e10fcc1e7f00f43653c0 (Reinhard Nägele)