# Helm v3.4.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.4.0
- **Released:** Oct 26, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.4.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.4.0. Source highlight: Helm v3.4.0 is a feature release. This release, we focused on the Helm stable and incubator repository changes. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - replace --no-update with --force-update and invert default. BREAKING. 882eeac7271858124a3cecbe22c5d7d61560714f (Matt Butcher)

## New Features
- A flag to show descriptions was added to the `helm status` command
- 3.5.0 is the next feature release. It will be released on January 13, 2021.
- add authentication to CircleCI jobs 360212393bf1c9cc8feebbcf6711fe4e3777cb4b (Matthew Fisher)
- feat(install): add requested version to error 6aa54eacc52db045e82faa6b256678863e325a20 (Mikuláš Dítě)
- add time-format flag to list command f61332f379fb8734e8124435de416a6fcf3338a2 (Abhilash Gnan)
- Fixing issue with idempotent repo add baf5b76a957dc52a2fca84fa1328628cc78cc307 (Matt Farina)

## Improvements
- improved user-facing error messages to explain the underlying problem (#8731) 5f3e56002908bfff7924503cf71db9a2bbc3954e (Matt Butcher)
- improve the HTTP detection for tar archives e2da16f5146e2709211f116cb81dd8f9c9a62fd5 (Matt Butcher)
- Enhance readability by extracting bitwise operation f9d35242d0cc3774e4c4d937e6c00c49aa8c6c7f (Andrew Melis)

## Bug Fixes
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- 3.4.1 will contain only bug fixes. It will be released on November 11, 2020.
- Fix wrong function's name in comment a167b3fc8719db19e87280bc134a24801808272e (zouyu)
- fix example time format b17cf19a2eab5664375c8578531940cafe4aa035 (Abhilash Gnan)
- fix ls command example 78177de664942452485aee890ddf07fa1cf4e420 (Abhilash Gnan)
- fix: allow serverInfo field on index files f19acbdc94578194d19a6758f01cd8eed85b792e (Matthew Fisher)