# Helm v3.8.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.8.0
- **Released:** Jan 24, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.8.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.8.0. Source highlight: Helm v3.8.0 is a feature release. This release, we focused on OCI registries, support for Kubernetes 1.23, and more. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## New Features
- A `--list-repo-url` flag has been added to `helm search hub` to quickly show the repositories URL.
- Added support for installing Helm on Windows via Cygwin
- Added support for Kubernetes 1.23
- 3.9.0 is the next feature release and will be released on May 11, 2022.
- Added registryClient to resolver 834a11db567b1e154ed976c03a7556c336ad4c7b (Andrew Block)
- add oci reference validation and tag scoped (+) replacement to registry client Push/Pull fb0eeebf66f290079acb2e957ba5bde93dc33b9f (Josh Wolf)

## Bug Fixes
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages
- 3.8.1 will contain only bug fixes and be released on March 09, 2022.
- Fix panic with OCI for install, upgrade, and show 548ec55cf9ee54f8563c2848b9f9fd33b8753936 (Matt Farina)
- Fix linting ba4020770ec21286dbf9cb4b6c6c82b42ee8d4d3 (Scott Rigby)
- Fixed bad commit 9c3b0008896d840237617bae8cc9823b77b536d4 (Andrew Block)