# Twenty v2.8.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Twenty (https://twenty.com)
- **Version:** v2.8.0
- **Released:** May 26, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/twenty/updates/v2.8.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Twenty v2.8.0. Source highlight: **Custom indexes UI** — manage data model indexes from the Settings UI (#20846)

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- ⚠️ Breaking changes - **Permission flags** — new system to define permission flags by apps - **Channel standard objects deprecated** — `messageChannel`, `messageFolder`, `calendarChannel` moved out of workspace schemas into core metadata (#20836) — this is just a cleanup, had been deprecated for some time already
- - API breaking-change CI guard (#20848) - `twenty_upgrade_instance_info` metric for upgrade observability (#20854) - Auto-indexing of polymorphic `target<X>Id` join columns (#20820)

## New Features
- **Custom indexes UI** — manage data model indexes from the Settings UI (#20846)
- **Text field widget editor mode** (#20779)
- **AI Chat** — new navigation menu item, webhook tool providers (#20759), plus end-to-end observability (#20850)
- **Partners app + directory** — new `twenty-partners` app and website directory (#20792, #20632)

## Improvements
- Rotate connected-account `connectionParameters` via `secret-encryption:rotate` (#20807)
- API breaking-change CI guard (#20848)
- `twenty_upgrade_instance_info` metric for upgrade observability (#20854)
- Auto-indexing of polymorphic `target<X>Id` join columns (#20820)
- Install applications via tarball download instead of `yarn install` (#20835)