# Cal.com v2.8.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Cal.com (https://cal.com)
- **Version:** v2.8.0
- **Released:** Apr 15, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/calcom/updates/v2.8.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cal.com v2.8.0. Source highlight: Move some dependencies into async

## New Features
- Feat: Support setting custom css variables through embed API.
- feat: add isRecordingExist field and create api handler
- Feature: Reserve slots currently being booked
- test: add other fields to routing form e2e
- Stripe add the ability to place hold on cards
- Added serverside translations to teams page.

## Improvements
- perf: parallelize database calls to improve speed
- perf: reduce array iteration on bookings router
- Improvement: Do immediate redirect for "Redirect on Booking"
- Improves reported type errors on CI
- perf: parallelize database calls to improve speed
- perf: reduce array iteration on bookings router

## Bug Fixes
- fix: spacing in booking item mobile
- fix: clock icon size in booker page
- fix: reccuring input width
- bugfix/Reading timezone of undefined on getUserAvailability function
- Fix workflows on seated events
- fix: selectfield bug and min height