# Helm v2.12.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v2.12.0
- **Released:** Dec 07, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v2.12.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v2.12.0. Source highlight: Helm v2.12.0 is a feature release. This release, we focused on stability with a few small features. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## New Features
- v2.13.0 is the next feature release.
- docs: add documentation for the helmignore file (#4966) ea158a6aad9d741791e0f77cb34a541fdd9bde64 (Ishaan Malhi)
- add appveyor for testing on Windows (#4136) a276bd810871c2ebdb950f8a568d7887f307dee5 (Matthew Fisher)
- related docs - remove import, export, add backup and plugin-utils instead (#4867) c911f6a85d70091c23e15eed46e484db1da7ac4a (Maor Friedman)
- add special note for RBAC users (#4597) c60abb4dd051ac59375335cc6bc9476e73eecf02 (Matthew Fisher)
- add s390x architecture to the release notes (#4741) d18fa439e6be76232bd7dd7707768385dfc764cc (Matthew Fisher)

## Improvements
- ref(kube): Gets rid of superfluous Sprintf call 3071a16dfdb981097483df4b2c75aa17d9f20f53 (Taylor Thomas)
- Update messaging in value parsing to improve traceability (#4974) 58be8e461c9ab8e86ea2ad519601e1a288f21e8c (Martin Hickey)

## Bug Fixes
- `#helm-dev` for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/helm/charts
- v2.12.1 will contain only bug fixes.
- fix(helm): Fix linebreaks when printing custom resources 7247537c3dfc761f58ad03424bc598d411923b3e (Morten Torkildsen)
- fix(helm): Print details for pod resource b536c8de104f0e68c7117ca7d4bb14872f791109 (Morten Torkildsen)
- fix(helm): Allow custom resources in hooks (#4986) 55a338579a5b3150f3b9466b4fe471a6f0118f70 (Morten Torkildsen)