# Helm v2.11.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v2.11.0
- **Released:** Sep 25, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v2.11.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v2.11.0. Source highlight: Helm v2.11.0 is a feature release. This release continues our focus on improving stability in this release, limiting our enhancements to things that improve the reliability of Helm in production. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## New Features
- added Kubernetes v1.11 support
- `helm repo add --username` without providing a password with `--password` opens a hidden password prompt
- added a --tls-hostname flag to `helm` commands that interact with tiller
- v2.12.0 is the next feature release.
- Make ping() request a specific image. Add a getTillerPodImage method. (#4622) 6e8719e11e59979dc5bcc32f0c7ddfd825175b83 (Louis Munro)
- introduce `helm init --automount-service-account-token` (#4589) 10db6a6fb56253aaa1aadf14cc7e5bd1a76aa6f8 (Matthew Fisher)

## Improvements
- many improvements to the "fake" helm client for simulating upgrades, rendering, etc. in test scenarios
- Improve documentation for helm upgrade (#4030) eeb3a1454a54194bada37661dab57d397c3e899b (smurfralf)

## Bug Fixes
- `#helm-dev` for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/helm/charts
- fixed a bug where `helm lint` would fail when a `required` template value was not provided
- fixed an issue where tiller running locally wouldn't respect kubectl's auth provider plugins
- fixed a bug in `helm list` where only the first release in a given chunk from tiller was displayed
- fixed a regression where proxy environment variables were not respected