# Medusa v2.8.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Medusa (https://medusajs.com)
- **Version:** v2.8.0
- **Released:** May 13, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/medusajs/updates/v2.8.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Medusa v2.8.0. Source highlight: Important: This release introduced a regression with product updates

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking changes This release introduces important changes to the `completeCartWorkflow` aimed at improving robustness and making it easier to recover from failures.
- Breaking changes This release changes the source of line item titles and subtitles. The title has changed from the variant title to the product title, and the subtitle has changed from the product title to the variant title.

## New Features
- feat: upgrade opentelemetry packages to support the latest release
- feat(index): add filterable fields to link definition
- feat: add needed methods to the file module and providers
- feat(core-flows, utils): add OrderEdit events
- feat: implement direct upload
- feat(dashboard, js-sdk, medusa, tax, types): custom tax providers

## Improvements
- Consequently, queries to retrieve data are performed per module, and the data is aggregated in the end to create the result set
- docs: improve documetation around error handling in workflows
- docs: improve resend guide
- docs: general improvements and additions
- docs: improve installation documentation with diagrams

## Bug Fixes
- fix(workflow-engine-*): q text search
- fix(medusa): Fix store return API
- fix(core-flows): handle inventory kit items in mark-as-shipped/delivered flows
- fix(design-system): filter/sorting menu error
- fix(core-flows): add missing remove remote link
- fix(core-flows,utils): move fulfillment workflow events