Helm Files

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 [f6e17f] (Scott Rigby)
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 [4f5a65] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.38.0 to 0.39.0 [65c504] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/foxcpp/go-mockdns from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 [f3b8af] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates [89c2c6] (dependabot[bot])
• [dev-v3] Replace deprecated NewSimpleClientset [526076] (George Jenkins)
• [dev-v3] Bump Go v1.25, golangci-lint v2 [0ae8e4] (George Jenkins)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/BurntSushi/toml from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 [e0d259] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.29 to 1.7.30 [858acb] (dependabot[bot])
• fix(rollback): errors.Is instead of string comp [0cd9a6] (Hidde Beydals)
• fix(uninstall): supersede deployed releases [8bb0b3] (Hidde Beydals)
• Use latest patch release of Go in releases [930ba6] (Matt Farina)
• chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates [582211] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.45.0 to 0.46.0 [585c25] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0 [6f17d4] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0 [46ff42] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 [28b813] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/rubenv/sql-migrate from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 [5dde5d] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.44.0 to 0.45.0 [362900] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin [ec61de] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates [a49060] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.30.0 to 0.31.0 [8509bc] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.44.0 [d495a9] (dependabot[bot])
• Remove dev-v3 helm-latest-version publish [01dc6c] (George Jenkins)
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.36.0 to 0.37.0 [6647f8] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.28 to 1.7.29 [b54811] (dependabot[bot])
• Revert "pkg/registry: Login option for passing TLS config in memory" [6a67b5] (Scott Rigby)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin [6d4f8c] (dependabot[bot])
• jsonschema: warn and ignore unresolved URN $ref to match v3.18.4 [3f0da1] (Benoit Tigeot)
• Fix helm pull untar dir check with repo urls [e5e101] (Luna Stadler)
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.42.0 to 0.43.0 [6aae92] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/gofrs/flock from 0.12.1 to 0.13.0 [1900c6] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0 [43e929] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin [d347e2] (dependabot[bot])
• [backport] fix: get-helm-3 script use helm3-latest-version [bd337b] (George Jenkins)
• pkg/registry: Login option for passing TLS config in memory [b80959] (Matheus Pimenta)
• chore(deps): bump the k8s-io group with 7 updates [1ac9d3] (dependabot[bot])
• Fix deprecation warning [9a366b] (Benoit Tigeot)
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.41.0 to 0.42.0 [0c5a17] (dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.34.0 to 0.35.0 [b99902] (dependabot[bot])
• Avoid "panic: interface conversion: interface {} is nil" [2fe49f] (Benoit Tigeot)
• bump version to v3.19.0 [c3610a] (Scott Rigby)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.7 to 1.0.10 [73b449] (dependabot[bot])
• fix: set repo authorizer in registry.Client.Resolve() [ffbc53] (Eric Stroczynski)
• fix null merge [f0b699] (Ben Foster)
• Add timeout flag to repo add and update flags [79a9cc] (Reinhard Nägele)