# Percona Operator for MySQL 0.8.0 Released

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**Created:** [July 18, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-operator-for-mysql-0-8-0-released/31688 "2024-07-18T14:28:33Z")\
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Date: July 16, 2024

Release notes are available on the website:

> **[Percona Operator for MySQL - Percona Operator for MySQL 0.8.0 (2024-07-16)](https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mysql/ps/ReleaseNotes/Kubernetes-Operator-for-PS-RN0.8.0.html)**
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## [New features](https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mysql/ps/ReleaseNotes/Kubernetes-Operator-for-PS-RN0.8.0.html#new-features)

- [K8SPS-149](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-149): Custom Resource options now include [customizable health checks and timeouts](https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mysql/ps/operator.html#proxyhaproxyreadinessprobestimeoutseconds) for HAProxy
- [K8SPS-186](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-186) and [K8SPS-370](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-370): Removing `allowUnsafeConfigurations` Custom Resource option in favor of fine-grained safety control in the `unsafeFlags` subsection
- [K8SPS-241](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-241): Support for the [cluster-wide Operator mode](https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mysql/ps/cluster-wide.html) allowing one Operator to watch for Percona Server for MySQL Custom Resources in several namespaces

## [Improvements](https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mysql/ps/ReleaseNotes/Kubernetes-Operator-for-PS-RN0.8.0.html#improvements)

- [K8SPS-334](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-334): Finalizers were renamed to contain fully qualified domain names (FQDNs), avoiding potential conflicts with other finalizer names in the same Kubernetes environment
- [K8SPS-333](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-333): improve `delete-mysql-pods-in-order` finalizer to take into account possible change of the primary instance in group replication
- [K8SPS-340](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-340): A `securityContext` of the `xtrabackup` container [can now be configured](https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mysql/ps/operator.html#backupcontainersecuritycontext) allowing administrators to define security profiles for the container
- [K8SPS-43](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-43): Custom Resource status obtained with the `kubectl get ps` command now takes into account both group and asynchronous replication, and doesn’t report the cluster as ready if the replication is broken