Pulumi has introduced several updates and new features, enhancing its infrastructure-as-code capabilities and expanding its ecosystem with new cloud providers and resources. Key updates include a new Helm Release resource for Kubernetes that offers the same behavior as the helm CLI, as well as new providers for MinIO and Snowflake, allowing users to manage a broader range of resources. Additionally, Pulumi has released a series of updates to its Azure Native provider, adding 15 new resources, and has enhanced its CLI and core technologies with features like the pulumi about command for troubleshooting, hiding secret values in config settings, and enabling custom names for dynamic providers in Python. The Automation API in .NET now supports plugin installation options, and a schema checker for Pulumi Packages has been introduced. Pulumi Service improvements now ensure organizational invites direct collaborators to the correct identity provider, streamlining the sign-up process.