# Helm v2.16.9 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v2.16.9
- **Released:** Jun 16, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v2.16.9/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v2.16.9. Source highlight: Helm v2.16.9 is a companion release to Helm 3.2.4, which had a vulnerability in the handling of plugins. Helm 2 does not have a known security vulnerability. However, we determined that Helm 2 should fail with an error message instead of fixing malformed paths when it detected them. We believe this 

## Improvements
- backported archive improvements from v3 (#8318) 8ad7037828e5a0fca1009dabe290130da6368e39 (Matt Butcher)

## Bug Fixes
- `#helm-dev` for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/helm/charts
- v2.16.10 will contain only bug fixes.