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 ( / bfb14953295d5324d47ab55f3dfba6da28d46c848978c8fbf412d4271bdc29f1)

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])