Helm v4.1.4 is a security fix 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:
  • 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
• Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages

Security fixes

• GHSA-hr2v-4r36-88hr Helm Chart extraction output directory collapse via Chart.yaml name dot-segment
• GHSA-q5jf-9vfq-h4h7 Plugin verification fails open when .prov is missing, allowing unsigned plugin install
• GHSA-vmx8-mqv2-9gmg Path traversal in plugin metadata version enables arbitrary file write outside Helm plugin directory

A big thank you to the reporters of these issues (@maru1009, @1seal).

Installation and Upgrading

Download Helm v4.1.4. The common platform binaries are here:

• MacOS amd64 (checksum / abf09c8503ad1d8ef76d3737a058c3456a998aae5f5966fce4bb3031aeb1654e)
• MacOS arm64 (checksum / 7c2eca678e8001fa863cdf8cbf6ac1b3799f9404a89eb55c08260ef5732e658d)
• Linux amd64 (checksum / 70b2c30a19da4db264dfd68c8a3664e05093a361cefd89572ffb36f8abfa3d09)
• Linux arm (checksum / c4a7d37032379cc7e82c9c76487d1041b193c9a0fbb4b8f3790230899b830a4f)
• Linux arm64 (checksum / 13d03672be289045d2ff00e4e345d61de1c6f21c1257a45955a30e8ae036d8f1)
• Linux i386 (checksum / 3e9bcefb85293854367bea931d669bb742974bbd978b3960df921ed129ff40f9)
• Linux ppc64le (checksum / 35a48f5db5c655b4471b37be75e76bfb2b23fc8a95d0fa2f0f344f0694336358)
• Linux s390x (checksum / c5653d0b3687f008dc48f80219906b574af3b623ddc114f92383327299ad935e)
• Linux riscv64 (checksum / 9d747ed5761a6a5c15aa7ad108b65aee917d8e33448690e83a6451b6a48748e6)
• Windows amd64 (checksum / bd60f567f667631a2c9b698dfabe5e3cd52eaaf4264163c0a9cae566db8560e8)
• Windows arm64 (checksum / d0a651026da4a26b28bdfc3d455ce3dfacbc267182dc2225c2172b1dcc549643)

The Quickstart Guide will get you going from there. For upgrade instructions or detailed installation notes, check the install guide. You can also use a script to install on any system with bash.

What's Next

• 4.1.5 and 3.20.3 are the next patch (bug fix) releases and will be on April 8, 2026
• 4.2.0 and 3.21.0 are the next minor (feature) releases and will be on May 13, 2026

Changelog

• fix: Plugin missing provenance bypass 05fa379 (George Jenkins)
• fix: Chart dot-name path bug 4e7994d (George Jenkins)
• ignore error plugin loads (cli, getter) 2581943 (George Jenkins)
• fix: Plugin version path traversal 36c8539 (George Jenkins)
• fix: pin codeql-action/upload-sarif to commit SHA in scorecards workflow c61e086 (Terry Howe)