Impact Score: 5/10
Helm v3.0.2
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.0.2. Source highlight: Helm v3.0.2 is the second patch release for Helm 3 and it includes several bug fixes. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- v3.1.0 will contain new features that do not break backwards compatibility.
- Add missing statuses to the status help text (#7035) 536bf7fd826d72acd2a64efc5e7e64c827e41560 (Jason Pickens)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- `#helm-dev` for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/helm/charts
- v3.0.3 will contain only bug fixes.
- fix(kube): Port use of watcher with retries to wait for resources (#7217) 19e47ee3283ae98139d98460de796c1be1e3975f (Martin Hickey)
- Updating to sprig 3.0.2 to bring in a bugfix d4b490af747aa328758bcf0ff0435ab26bce7ecf (Matt Farina)
- fix(cmd): Add message about deprecated chart (#6889) b88a28a25feb55829649ef14c43fb27f6fda79bf (kvendingoldo)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
Helm v3.0.2 is the second patch release for Helm 3 and it includes several bug fixes. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.
This release was signed with ` 62F4 9E74 7D91 1B60 ` and can be found at @technosophos [keybase account](https://keybase.io/technosophos). Please use the attached signatures for verifying this release using `gpg`.
The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there!
- Join the discussion in [Kubernetes Slack](https://kubernetes.slack.com):
- `#helm-users` for questions and just to hang out
- `#helm-dev` for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Hang out at the Public Developer Call: Thursday, 9:30 Pacific via [Zoom](https://zoom.us/j/696660622)
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: [GitHub/helm/charts](https://github.com/helm/charts)
## Installation and Upgrading
Download Helm 3.0.2. The common platform binaries are here:
- [MacOS amd64](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-darwin-amd64.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-darwin-amd64.tar.gz.sha256))
- [Linux amd64](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz.sha256))
- [Linux arm](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-arm.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-arm.tar.gz.sha256))
- [Linux arm64](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-arm64.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-arm64.tar.gz.sha256))
- [Linux i386](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-386.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-386.tar.gz.sha256))
- [Linux ppc64le](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz.sha256))
- [Windows amd64](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-windows-amd64.zip) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.0.2-windows-amd64.zip.sha256))
The [Quickstart Guide](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/quickstart/) will get you going from there.
## What's Next
- v3.0.3 will contain only bug fixes.
- v3.1.0 will contain new features that do not break backwards compatibility.
## Changelog
- fix(kube): Port use of watcher with retries to wait for resources (#7217) 19e47ee3283ae98139d98460de796c1be1e3975f (Martin Hickey)
- Updating to sprig 3.0.2 to bring in a bugfix d4b490af747aa328758bcf0ff0435ab26bce7ecf (Matt Farina)
- Add missing statuses to the status help text (#7035) 536bf7fd826d72acd2a64efc5e7e64c827e41560 (Jason Pickens)
- fix(cmd): Add message about deprecated chart (#6889) b88a28a25feb55829649ef14c43fb27f6fda79bf (kvendingoldo)
- ref(pkg/action): split test of filterList (#6875) 7f8d258cb890e730f674228edc1e9faf331c6f6b (jabielecki)
- fix(*): Helm v3 handling of APIVersion v1 charts dependencies (#7009) 8c283e8706ce19c0f19226344854906596414fcf (Paul "TBBle" Hampson)
- fix: stop discovery errors from halting chart rendering. 7f6da66ae80862eeea0de3acce32ad9453692674 (Matt Butcher)