# Helm v2.8.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v2.8.1
- **Released:** Feb 08, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v2.8.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v2.8.1. Source highlight: Helm v2.8.1 includes a handful of bug fixes. It is a patch release, and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

## New Features
- Revert "feat(helm): adding kubeconfig flag" 63da741e485e01618ec647d923ec7dbf5d0c385d (Matthew Fisher)
- add appsv1beta1 and appsv1beta2 apiVersion e3a8b807ac4e3e4fc084a0c84d69910709ccc139 (Paolo Mainardi)

## Bug Fixes
- `#helm-dev` for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/kubernetes/charts
- fix(grpc): Fixes issue where message sending limited to 4mb e2f688fa0d3cead645dc6737fa236021fa740f82 (Matt Farina)
- fix(api-machinery): Fixes patching for unstructured objects 90957b905c6f8446c590a05ca43171e4e3073918 (Matt Farina)
- fix helm init --upgrade logic 2b2b994092fc7b8407dd8403c673844721ccd929 (Matthew Fisher)
- Fix 'getSelectorFromObject' 7086a16e29cfb106c272437f756b6cef628e7582 (Reinhard Nägele)