# Helm v3.8.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.8.1
- **Released:** Mar 09, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.8.1/

## 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.

## New Features
- 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)

## Bug Fixes
- 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)