diff --git a/bitnami/tomcat/Chart.yaml b/bitnami/tomcat/Chart.yaml
index ea57f682ac..fddfb5892c 100644
--- a/bitnami/tomcat/Chart.yaml
+++ b/bitnami/tomcat/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 apiVersion: v1
 name: tomcat
-version: 4.4.3
-appVersion: 9.0.24
+version: 5.0.0
+appVersion: 9.0.26
 description: Chart for Apache Tomcat
 keywords:
 - tomcat
diff --git a/bitnami/tomcat/README.md b/bitnami/tomcat/README.md
index 4da7244ce1..3ffea27a86 100644
--- a/bitnami/tomcat/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/tomcat/README.md
@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ As an alternative, this chart supports using an initContainer to change the owne
 
 You can enable this initContainer by setting `volumePermissions.enabled` to `true`.
 
+## Notable changes
+
+### 5.0.0
+
+This release updates the Bitnami Tomcat container to `9.0.26-debian-9-r0`, which is based on Bash instead of Node.js.
+
 ## Upgrading
 
 ### To 2.1.0
diff --git a/bitnami/tomcat/values.yaml b/bitnami/tomcat/values.yaml
index d21d4aa579..0804b9105c 100644
--- a/bitnami/tomcat/values.yaml
+++ b/bitnami/tomcat/values.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 image:
   registry: docker.io
   repository: bitnami/tomcat
-  tag: 9.0.24-debian-9-r16
+  tag: 9.0.26-debian-9-r0
   ## Specify a imagePullPolicy
   ## Defaults to 'Always' if image tag is 'latest', else set to 'IfNotPresent'
   ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/images/#pre-pulling-images