Impact Score: 5/10
Helm v3.8.1
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.8.1. Source highlight: Helm v3.8.1 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (5)
- 3.9.0 is the next feature release and will be released on May 11, 2022.
- add legal name check 18fa1d739f6c72c45dab2c0cc6b71843bca122da (root)
- overwrite flag added to az storage blob upload-batch 92757895d6c0f4fbd4403978b2e1ab4726ec0769 (Sourik Ghosh)
- Add IngressClass to manifests to be (un)installed dbd30cac0576a650311ce9c8198af905e0073b6b (stephanECD)
- feat(comp): Shell completion for OCI e62f5cac1e2a620f8bfb252bfa32f43d25e6c1cf (Marc Khouzam)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages
- 3.8.2 will contain only bug fixes and will be released on April 13, 2022.
- fix: remove deadcode 952d034ed0d4e48f64e894ecc96712a2b5a6ad8f (Tomas Pizarro Moreno)
- fix: helm package tests 02028a27a88d2a800a6ffc95163246987e5754dc (Tomas Pizarro Moreno)
- fix: helm package with dependency update for charts with OCI dependencies bc3d14cbc5399fcce1aa739a15a7a02416cf6133 (Tomas Pizarro Moreno)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
Helm v3.8.1 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.
The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there!
- Join the discussion in [Kubernetes Slack](https://kubernetes.slack.com):
- for questions and just to hang out
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Hang out at the Public Developer Call: Thursday, 9:30 Pacific via [Zoom](https://zoom.us/j/696660622)
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: [ArtifactHub/packages](https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?kind=0)
## Installation and Upgrading
Download Helm v3.8.1. The common platform binaries are here:
- [MacOS amd64](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-darwin-amd64.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-darwin-amd64.tar.gz.sha256sum) / 3b6d87d360a51bf0f2344edd54e3580a8e8de2c4a4fd92eccef3e811f7e81bb3)
- [MacOS arm64](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz.sha256sum) / 5f0fea586781fb867b92c10133786949ab6a447f297d5c12e1e8f5dd3a9ed712)
- [Linux amd64](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz.sha256sum) / d643f48fe28eeb47ff68a1a7a26fc5142f348d02c8bc38d699674016716f61cd)
- [Linux arm](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-arm.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-arm.tar.gz.sha256sum) / 9f87153f545eea27b72ad9c639b197df792a4c784b403f118975e34a1bace2ca)
- [Linux arm64](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-arm64.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-arm64.tar.gz.sha256sum) / dbf5118259717d86c57d379317402ed66016c642cc0d684f3505da6f194b760d)
- [Linux i386](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-386.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-386.tar.gz.sha256sum) / 2642743584fb7595ef04205dbc6d67099d0ba94b145210ad1b543ab9eece8089)
- [Linux ppc64le](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz.sha256sum) / 7ab60a643fb7dd06f13209d85782623d817f3e8361b96e39b9949932f264ea86)
- [Linux s390x](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-s390x.tar.gz) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-linux-s390x.tar.gz.sha256sum) / 9eb564cdf4e5f4868c7abf790d4ac23ac2babc3f0c0eda7109259e21d43f8a83)
- [Windows amd64](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-windows-amd64.zip) ([checksum](https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.8.1-windows-amd64.zip.sha256sum) / a75003fc692131652d3bd218dd4007692390a1dd156f11fd7668e389bdd8f765)
This release was signed with `672C 657B E06B 4B30 969C 4A57 4614 49C2 5E36 B98E ` and can be found at @mattfarina [keybase account](https://keybase.io/mattfarina). Please use the attached signatures for verifying this release using `gpg`.
The [Quickstart Guide](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/quickstart/) will get you going from there. For **upgrade instructions** or detailed installation notes, check the [install guide](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/). You can also use a [script to install](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/main/scripts/get-helm-3) on any system with `bash`.
## What's Next
- 3.8.2 will contain only bug fixes and will be released on April 13, 2022.
- 3.9.0 is the next feature release and will be released on May 11, 2022.
## Changelog
- Updating Kubernetes libs to 0.23.4 (latest) 5cb9af4b1b271d11d7a97a71df3ac337dd94ad37 (Matt Farina)
- fix: remove deadcode 952d034ed0d4e48f64e894ecc96712a2b5a6ad8f (Tomas Pizarro Moreno)
- fix: helm package tests 02028a27a88d2a800a6ffc95163246987e5754dc (Tomas Pizarro Moreno)
- fix: helm package with dependency update for charts with OCI dependencies bc3d14cbc5399fcce1aa739a15a7a02416cf6133 (Tomas Pizarro Moreno)
- Fix typo Unset the env var before func return in Unit Test 9499df01bbc5eff5a463045977918f714d79a0c5 (Kay Yan)
- add legal name check 18fa1d739f6c72c45dab2c0cc6b71843bca122da (root)
- maint: fix syntax error in deploy.sh 7663ffa87b5294152152c9a1b0d8b424dcd51952 (Josh Dolitsky)
- linting issue fixed 803ecb837a5f842f57f3a9a86788e468469d9fcc (Sourik Ghosh)
- only apply overwrite if version is canary a4371bae4f775679c4799a889cfaad36b1760ba6 (Sourik Ghosh)
- overwrite flag added to az storage blob upload-batch 92757895d6c0f4fbd4403978b2e1ab4726ec0769 (Sourik Ghosh)
- Avoid querying for OCI tags can explicit version provided in chart dependencies 3aacde171ef8504c431e783c25a01de0d1776801 (Andrew Block)
- Management of bearer tokens for tag listing 46f0ec460977b31130f3cf90fad371afd1160a89 (Andrew Block)
- Updating Kubernetes packages to 1.23.3 97b477c0868208d3a97cd6ab7c8eedd603c0a3ff (Martin Hickey)
- refactor: use `os.ReadDir` for lightweight directory reading 6966dc444c2d245e7b4e15c251708c450aceb956 (Eng Zer Jun)
- Add IngressClass to manifests to be (un)installed dbd30cac0576a650311ce9c8198af905e0073b6b (stephanECD)
- feat(comp): Shell completion for OCI e62f5cac1e2a620f8bfb252bfa32f43d25e6c1cf (Marc Khouzam)
- Fix install memory/goroutine leak 4827ca1f167937f9599ad2486e43ce3914192f43 (Neven Miculinic)