# Helm v3.17.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.17.0
- **Released:** Jan 15, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.17.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.17.0. Source highlight: Helm v3.17.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - Revert CAFile rename breaking change 0687961da4f708cd69c5cbde0f446b989671f0a5 (Evans Mungai)

## New Features
- Added username/password to helm push and dependency build/update subcommands
- Added `toYamlPretty` template function
- feat: allow installation by OCI digest c3e5217d85f37ba6adb570c3f2ff78dc7dfb343c (Terry Howe)
- Add annotations and dependencies to get metadata output The output of helm get metadata includes a subset of the fields contained in the chart.Metadata struct. This change adds the values of the annotations field and the dependencies field to the output. 7321579092a5e84258c2f295031f175971700abe (Niladri Halder)
- Add --take-ownership flag for install and upgrade commands c3a5f27c7742991a81c6bbc7bb8e15478f68a20d (Mayank Shah)
- Add tests to `helm/pkg/kube/client_test.go` to cover `wait.go` 9fd943b481ef7ca8126e78787b06ed0e2e854331 (Alex Johnson)

## Improvements
- Revert "Improve helm dependency update performance" c81bd8912e67177f7941714098e762a88f04c430 (Matt Farina)
- improves handling of Helm index with broken helm chart versions #13176 154b47755403f5d9e13fdabdca62aff7b25a5acf (ricardo.bartels@telekom.de)

## Bug Fixes
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages
- 3.17.1 is the next patch release and will be on February 12, 2025
- fix: make ORAS reference private 949b2e604067a43797c640db4d6ed69af7aa3e5b (Terry Howe)
- fix: issue with helm template and oci chart aba95b9cb4827fe932e5eebabd55513333543d7c (Terry Howe)
- Fix dev-v3 from take ownership changes a3a9e4f6432f7732f2e802962b8cea19c34817b8 (Matt Farina)