# PocketBase v0.8.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** PocketBase (https://pocketbase.io)
- **Version:** v0.8.0
- **Released:** Nov 18, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/pocketbase/updates/v0.8.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
PocketBase v0.8.0. Source highlight: There are no breaking changes if you've already previously migrated to the v0.8.0-rc.

## New Features
- Merged the `User` model the `profiles` collection per [#376] and added support for multiple auth collections.
- Added indirect expand support #312.
- Added support for combined email/username + password authentication (see below `authWithPassword()`).
- Added support for full _"manager-subordinate"_ users management, including a special API rule to allow directly changing system fields like email, password, etc. without requiring `oldPassword` or other user verification.
- Added option to toggle the record columns visibility from the table listing.
- Added support for collection schema fields reordering.

## Improvements
- Improved memory usage on large file uploads #835.
- Other minor performance improvements (mostly related to the search apis).