WIll “helm upgrade” restart PODS even if they are not affected by upgrade?

Question

My helm chart has some 12 PODS. When I did helm upgrade after changing some values all the PODs are restarted except for one.

My question is

Answer 1

--recreate-pods has been removed in helm 3 and that certainly got the attention of some helm users.

I force the pods to be recreated using a timestamp in the deployment pod spec. Note that it has to be in the spec, this will not work at the deployment top level:

spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        releaseTime: {{ dateInZone "2006-01-02 15:04:05Z" (now) "UTC"| quote }}