# Helm v4.0.4 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v4.0.4
- **Released:** Dec 13, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v4.0.4/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v4.0.4. Source highlight: Helm v4.0.4 is a security fix for a Go CVE in the previous tag. This patch release rebuilds the Helm `v4.0.2` release with the latest Go toolchain, to fix the Go CVE. Users are encouraged to upgrade. Note that tag v4.0.3 was skipped due to a build failure.

## Bug Fixes
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages
- 3.19.5 and 4.0.5 are the next patch releases and will be on January 14, 2026
- Use latest patch release of Go in releases 9db13ee5c343196f642c568a03e58d3221b324d6 (Matt Farina)