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:
- MacOS amd64 (checksum / 580515b544d5c966edc6f782c9ae88e21a9e10c786a7d6c5fd4b52613f321076)
- MacOS arm64 (checksum / 75cc96ac3fe8b8b9928eb051e55698e98d1e026967b6bffe4f0f3c538a551b65)
- Linux amd64 (checksum / 0165ee4a2db012cc657381001e593e981f42aa5707acdd50658326790c9d0dc3)
- Linux arm (checksum / 758375df78fb8f91f4056244bda539710a73be79284b24b4bdad68384348ca33)
- Linux arm64 (checksum / 56b9d1b0e0efbb739be6e68a37860ace8ec9c7d3e6424e3b55d4c459bc3a0401)
- Linux i386 (checksum / 22b350307d5e5897b3a14f096cb6b2212cc03c22ba29ab7b4ee3e64ab9f3f190)
- Linux ppc64le (checksum / 77b7d9bc62b209c044b873bc773055c5c0d17ef055e54c683f33209ebbe8883c)
- Linux s390x (checksum / 3c43d45149a425c7bf15ba3653ddee13e7b1a4dd6d4534397b6f317f83c51b58)
- Linux riscv64 (checksum / 0eeae246112b4780e61651f9fbe6d778eebf8c8eccca590139b97d167d1b8aeb)
- Windows amd64 (checksum / 16d5256f4c2cde0745acb922ba88b7759dfced4bf547b99381084211f81c8629)
- Windows arm64 (checksum / 2aac2b87e92c32d44aa81c6412286d9db7e43b22b4c8ac112b68cf69185429bd)
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
- 4.2.0 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 a2369ca (dependabot[bot])
- add image index test 90e1056 (Pedro Tôrres)
- fix pulling charts from OCI indices 911f2e9 (Pedro Tôrres)
- Remove refactorring changes from coalesce_test.go 76dad33 (Evans Mungai)
- Fix import 45c12f7 (Evans Mungai)
- Update pkg/chart/common/util/coalesce_test.go 26c6f19 (Evans Mungai)
- Fix lint warning 09f5129 (Evans Mungai)
- Preserve nil values in chart already 417deb2 (Evans Mungai)
- fix(values): preserve nil values when chart default is empty map 5417bfa (Evans Mungai)