# Argo CD v2.8.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Argo CD (https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io)
- **Version:** v2.8.0
- **Released:** Aug 07, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/argocd/updates/v2.8.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Argo CD v2.8.0. Source highlight: kubectl create namespace argocd

## New Features
- feat: Adding kubelogin capability to argocd-k8s-auth (#9460) (#10700) (#14866)
- feat(appset): Restrict scm provider urls (#14286) (#14779)
- feat(deep-links): sprig support (#14660) (#14676)
- feat(appset): Add support for self-signed TLS / Certificates for Gitlab Scm Provider (#14348) (#14462)
- feat: upgrade dexIDP from 2.36.0 -> 2.37.0 (#14305) (#14310) (#14312)
- feat(appset): ApplicationSet in any namespace (#12378)

## Improvements
- docs: improve ignoreResourceUpdates docs (cherry-pick #14475) (#14504)
- chore: improve ignoreResourceUpdates logging (#14476) (#14500)

## Bug Fixes
- fix(appset): typo in ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_ALLOWED_SCM_PROVIDERS (#14902) (#14913) (#14931)
- fix: Change underscore (_) back to plus (+) to get valid SemVer when when reading tags from OCI registry (#14537) (#14908)
- fix(ui): Fixes health icon positioning (#14708) (#14852) (#14901)
- fix: Repo URL link for unsupported sources links to https://<argocd>/null/path/to/chart (#14861) (#14873)
- fix(ui): no hyphen for "create job" action + nice icon (#14776) (#14777) (#14802)
- fix(controller): cache deadlock on delete and re-add cluster (#14780) (#14798)