# Helm v3.1.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.1.0
- **Released:** Feb 13, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.1.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.1.0. Source highlight: Helm v3.1.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## New Features
- Post-render hooks were added enabling a script or application to modify the output of rendered templates
- Oras, a package used by the experimental feature enabling charts to be stored in OCI registries, was updated to 0.8.1
- Introduction of a `.sha256sum` file for each release download that can be used to verify the download with tools like `shasum -a 256 -c` and `sha256sum`
- v3.2.0 is the next feature release. This release will focus on a number of usability features.
- add test for template recursion b29d20baf09943e134c2fa5e1e1cab3bf93315fa (Daniel Cheng)
- chore(postrender): Adds unit tests for exec post renderer 7a3049a418bd78f3cbfc0e479797865e895261af (Taylor Thomas)

## Improvements
- Improve description for `--all` flag (#7144) 40df2f2a636be4a061e252715db6867796c0c5f1 (Xiang Dai)
- improved the error message for failed package signing (#6948) 0e42a77ae6ae266cfa299de3b3bfd204f35b9f7a (Matt Butcher)

## Bug Fixes
- `#helm-dev` for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/helm/charts
- v3.1.1 will contain only bug fixes.
- fix recursion count in templates 805a591b5057845be0e872a3f667e81d07203367 (Daniel Cheng)
- Fix shasums to be usable by shasum and sha256sum applications 9887a3e4ca4ef473a4ddd419573edbd5c82bb231 (Matt Farina)
- fix(comp): Fix broken completion for --output flag 374e9d8c7dc49cdd5623d15c794e46a80e3134b5 (Marc Khouzam)