# Helm v2.6.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v2.6.2
- **Released:** Oct 04, 2017
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v2.6.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v2.6.2. Source highlight: Helm 2.6.2 includes a handful of bug fixes. It is a patch release, and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- It is also important to note that this patch release removes a few features from Helm due to licensing issues, most notably #1639 and #2449. These new features relied on libraries licensed under [Facebook's BSD+Patents license](https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556) (also known as a [Category-X license](https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x)). The Facebook BSD+Patents license includes a specification of a PATENTS file that passes along some risk to users of the Helm project. The terms of Facebook BSD+Patents license are not a subset of those found in Apache v2, and th

## Bug Fixes
- `#helm-devs` for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/kubernetes/charts
- 2.6.3 is the next patch release. This release will only happen if important bugs surface between now and the 2.7.0 release date.
- fix(deps): fix issues when running glide up be3ae4ea91b2960be98c07e8f73754e67e87963c (Matt Farina)
- fix(helm): Fix the bug in helm dependency update -verify 7ed614d06d1f6b6ad243c04f9e36ae79ed8f74f0 (@rocky-nupt)
- bug(tiller): sort unknown but different kinds alphabetically based on kind name 685994aecf973e080660c76bb964b72f452f4f36 (Justin Scott)