# Helm v3.9.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Helm (https://helm.sh)
- **Version:** v3.9.0
- **Released:** May 18, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/helm/updates/v3.9.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Helm v3.9.0. Source highlight: Helm v3.9.0 is a feature release. This release, we focused on <insert focal point>. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- _Note, the Helm SDK exposes the `Factory` interface from kubectl as part of the Helm `kube` package. Kubernetes does not follow semantic versioning and minor releases make breaking changes. Helm 3.9.0 updated its use of Kubernetes packages and that included a breaking change to `Factory`, as defined by [the Go stance on interfaces](https://go.dev/blog/module-compatibility). As this is a Kubernetes API, Helm is unable to include it in its compatibility guarantee._

## New Features
- Added a `--quiet` flag to `helm lint`
- Added a `--post-renderer-args` flag to support arguments being passed to the post renderer
- Added more checks during the signing process
- Updated to add Kubernetes 1.24 support
- 3.10.0 is the next feature release and will be released on September 14, 2022
- Added sabre1041 as project maintainer 97718e942284d0f7d86a5de760b948a03633b111 (Andrew Block)

## Bug Fixes
- for discussing PRs, code, and bugs
- Test, debug, and contribute charts: ArtifactHub/packages
- 3.9.1 will contain only bug fixes and will be released on June 8, 2022
- Fix --untardir reference in --destination description 41ccf7b5aba9677573952ba4b4a47be5f0170525 (Simon Alling)
- fix(helm): update golang.org/x/crypto to latest 5105899a86c78630d8cd507c266f8d86c4ea1524 (Colleen Murphy)
- Fix confusing test failure message 56e52d139c27b43397c567ecc31aea1ce0e73b5d (Simon Alling)