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# Release v0.40.9

## Notes

Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.

Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our [sponsorship program](https://github.com/sponsors/derailed) and/or make some noise on social! [@kitesurfer](https://twitter.com/kitesurfer)

On Slack? Please join us [K9slackers](https://join.slack.com/t/k9sers/shared_invite/enQtOTA5MDEyNzI5MTU0LWQ1ZGI3MzliYzZhZWEyNzYxYzA3NjE0YTk1YmFmNzViZjIyNzhkZGI0MmJjYzhlNjdlMGJhYzE2ZGU1NjkyNTM)

## Maintenance Release!

* Refactored plugins implementation, hopefully we didn't hose them 😳
* Updated plugins docs
* Apparently when it comes to icons, I've chosen... poorly 🙀
  Updated `write` icon 🔓->✍️, hopefully for the better 👀??

## Videos Are In The Can!

Please dial [K9s Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC897uwPygni4QIjkPCpgjmw) for up coming content...

* [K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek](https://youtu.be/iy6RDozAM4A)
* [K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek](https://youtu.be/X3444KfjguE)
* [K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek](https://youtu.be/mVBc1XneRJ4)
* [Vulnerability Scans](https://youtu.be/ULkl0MsaidU)

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## Resolved Issues

* [#3202](https://github.com/derailed/k9s/issues/3202) 0.40.8 breaks plugins loading

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