# Argo CD v2.2.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Argo CD (https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io)
- **Version:** v2.2.0
- **Released:** Dec 14, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/argocd/updates/v2.2.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Argo CD v2.2.0. Source highlight: kubectl create namespace argocd

## New Features
- feat: cmp server (#6585)
- feat: split yamls (#7595)
- feat: Add KubeVirt custom health checks (#7176)
- feat: add timezone option to sync window (#7442)
- feat: autocompletion for resource shortnames (#7466)
- feat: remove cluster confirmation (#7602)

## Bug Fixes
- Argo CD API server caches RBAC checks that significantly improves the GET /api/v1/applications API performance (#7587)
- Argo CD RBAC supports regex matches (#7165)
- Health check support for KubeVirt (#7176), Cassandra (#7017), Openshift Route (#7112), DeploymentConfig (#7114), Confluent (#6957) and SparkApplication (#7434) CRDs.
- Persistent banner (#7312) with custom positioning (#7462)
- Cluster name support in project destinations (#7198)
- around 30 more features and a total of 84 bug fixes