# Helm v3.5.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.5.0
- **Released:** Jan 13, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.5.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.5.0. Source highlight: Helm v3.5.0 is a feature release. This release, we focused on OCI support and template functions. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## New Features
- Added more than 20 new template functions. See sprig release notes for details.
- Added `--skip-refresh` flag to the `helm dep build` command.
- Added `--wait-for-jobs` flag that can be paired with `--wait` to ensure jobs complete when waiting.
- Added `--kube-cafile` flag and environment variable `HELM_KUBECAFILE` to override the system wide certificate authority.
- 3.6.0 is the next feature release and will be released on May 26, 2021.
- Add explanatory comments to action.List and action.History 1da2212a9de64671edb17f727b937215cc252309 (Daniel Lipovetsky)

## Bug Fixes
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/helm/charts
- 3.5.1 will contain only bug fixes and be released on February 10, 2021.
- Fix dep build with OCI based charts 32c22239423b3b4ba6706d450bd044baffdcf9e6 (Matt Farina)
- Fixed bug - The flags --cert-file/--key-file where ignored when --insecure-skip-tls-verify flag is set (#9070) a202fb0c0b73a1093609251476e0d8a1b76b3b8f (Dinu Mathai)
- fix(pkg/chartutil): Remove warning for nils bed1a42a398b30a63a279d68cc7319ceb4618ec3 (Marc Khouzam)