# Helm v3.18.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.18.0
- **Released:** May 19, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.18.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.18.0. Source highlight: Helm v3.18.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## New Features
- Add support for JSON Schema 2020
- Add hook annotation to output hook logs to client on error
- 3.19.0 on September 11th, 2025 is the next feature release.
- Add install test for TakeOwnership flag 0906fe7f6b201d9aa73eb22f518366ea75c57937 (Evans Mungai)
- Add HookOutputFunc and generic yaml unmarshaller b8e13878fcf542aff465a90635b4d29f93dfb434 (Chris Berry)
- add short circuit return 3cd6afe845c905d2bc1dfa259e2ab4b571c19234 (Scott Rigby)

## Bug Fixes
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages
- 3.18.1 on June 11th, 2025 will contain only bug fixes.
- fix: govulncheck workflow bf1436baf3c235cb1b689a016b7162d0cddd3947 (Matthieu MOREL)
- fix:add proxy support when mTLS configured 48377fe4515cc6a5bf5ac92ea6086090e7b82798 (Rongrong Liu)
- Fix --take-ownership 4ee3a19e9a98e3b58eb4579f019666e834408ca3 (Patrick Seidensal)