# Helm v3.4.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.4.1
- **Released:** Nov 11, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.4.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.4.1. Source highlight: Helm v3.4.1 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## New Features
- 3.5.0 is the next feature release and will be released on January 13, 2021
- add unittes for 'helm dep build' with --skip-refresh flag. c4e74854886b2efe3321e185578e6db9be0a6e29 (yxxhero)
- Add --skip-refresh option in helm dep build 5522ce93fd9e1fcbeecb163e7dd843683d7f9890 (yxxhero)
- Added tests for PR 8948 6cdd6114dce6fbd834f00a031a0755a435eea7ab (Matt Farina)
- added test for https://github.com/helm/helm/pull/8913 related to https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/8621 7d9837a858046af7598217a1537cbc1a65fd72e9 (Christophe VILA)
- Add test case for LoadFiles d0721819fb60abc56339048e655cfb23b7fa9ccb (Zhengyi Lai)

## Bug Fixes
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/helm/charts
- 3.4.2 will contain only bug fixes and be released on December 9, 2020
- Fix that the invalid version number of the helm package command will escape b266b571ce971574ac07e4513cdce05e2db0a8be (wawa0210)
- Fix the lint error message for valid names 1f6fd5df26514907d1ac2014f44ca399cdf0b8fc (Martin Hickey)
- Fixes Error: could not find protocol handler for e1858f78359af4948a94628fa318e44cd2e1aaa0 (Matt Farina)