# Helm v3.7.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.7.0
- **Released:** Sep 15, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.7.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.7.0. Source highlight: Helm v3.7.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - Introduce a new interface for WaitForDelete() to avoid breaking backwards compatibility d51a61f9ab4d9e78c11fc0b6662ae6ea16291e66 (Mike Ng)

## New Features
- introduced `helm uninstall --wait`
- introduced `helm show crds`
- introduced `--max-col-width` to `helm dependency list`
- introduced `--password-stdin` to `helm repo add`
- introduced `{{ .Chart.IsRoot }}` to the template engine
- 3.8.0 is the next feature release.

## Improvements
- improved coalesce readability by getting rid of continue statements 5cf9735a9dec42ceed7db04b551b5c2f8762f3db (Bernd Gutjahr)
- enhanced coelesce_test with some more test cases 1740e7f89b59b44fed8c678b586f3a64083f30a3 (Bernd Gutjahr)
- Improve tests 7bfb2a3602953b052db85dcb222157a32db9547a (Stephane Moser)
- Improve markdown rendering of commands help for shell completion 61e08c63374406f261c914e667092eb21c13c37b (Alexandre Garnier)

## Bug Fixes
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages
- 3.7.1 will contain only bug fixes.
- fix tarFromLocalDir saving file dependencies in dest path eeac83883cb4014fe60267ec6373570374ce770b (Matthew Fisher)
- Fix HELM_DRIVER docs for sql option bc1fefa9f33f14521c44e08768c9f9bac3681907 (Ed Carrel)
- Fix encoded path for 'helm dependency build' 58018d121098992121071e83b576700cd4f273e1 (Mathieu Parent)