# Helm v2.9.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v2.9.0
- **Released:** Apr 26, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v2.9.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v2.9.0. Source highlight: Helm 2.9.0 is a feature release. This release contains a metric tonne of fixes and new features. We would like to take the time to thank everyone who contributed to this release. We cannot thank you enough for your time and hard work debugging issues, submitting tickets, contributing patches or craf

## New Features
- 2.10.0 is the next feature release. While it is likely to have some notable features, we will continue to prioritize stability and reliability over major feature additions.
- Add hook-delete-policy ReleaseServer unit tests b7fe0d0bd7d059ad45b71fe84be5275f66e1bf4a (Timofey Kirillov)
- Add issue_template.md which asks for version info. 49cda9a81d4453f2e9b67f701dd1db9a48561bb4 (Justin Scott)
- add a link to Jenkins X and how it uses helm 502db80b263a9498535f42c71e36adcdbacad4fa (James Strachan)
- Add actionable message in the error afed555572a1476dcb7c3bebc2701268cfde1de8 (Daisuke Maki)
- feat(helm): inspect readme 3625241025783f0b5c48b64e382780f74f7c4148 (Florian Zysset)

## Bug Fixes
- `#helm-dev` for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: GitHub/kubernetes/charts
- 2.9.1 will contain only bug fixes.
- Fix for - Downloader plugins not used when downloading new repo's index.yaml #3938 26f4405fdf9d7334fc8ae966aae8f880e2b1b9a4 (eyalbe4)
- fix(kube): output internal object table 4c14bc4f342786a949d256c5b7dbe4335bb329bb (Adam Reese)
- fix(pkg/tiller): reuseValues combines all prev val 4dd21780bb6debf2eccfef2c37bdcb52bf649abd (Michelle Noorali)