# Percona Operator for MySQL 0.8.0 Released

**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-operator-for-mysql-0-8-0-released/31689
**Category:** Percona Operator for MySQL
**Tags:** new-release
**Created:** [July 18, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-operator-for-mysql-0-8-0-released/31689 "2024-07-18T14:30:11Z")
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Date: July 16, 2024

- Supporting cluster-wide Operator installation
- Fixing the overloaded allowUnsafeConfigurations flag

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

- [K8SPS-275](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-275): The Operator now checks if the needed Secrets exist and connects to the storage to check the existence of a backup before starting the restore process
- [K8SPS-277](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-277): The new `topologySpreadConstraints` Custom Resource option allows to use [Pod Topology Spread Constraints](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-topology-spread-constraints/#spread-constraints-for-pods)to achieve even distribution of Pods across the Kubernetes cluster

## Improvements

- [K8SPS-129](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-129): The documentation on how to build and test the Operator [is now available](https://github.com/percona/percona-server-mysql-operator/blob/main/e2e-tests/README.md)
- [K8SPS-295](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-295): Certificate issuer errors are now reflected in the Custom Resource status message and can be easily checked with the `kubectl get ps -o yaml` command
- [K8SPS-326](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPS-326): The mysql-monit Orchestrator sidecar container now inherits orchestrator resources following the way that HAProxy mysql-monit container does (thanks to SlavaUtesinov for contribution)