chore( operator): community release 0.8.1

Author: loki-gh-app[bot]

.release-please-manifest.json

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 {
   ".": "3.4.2",
-  "operator": "0.8.0"
+  "operator": "0.8.1"
 }

operator/CHANGELOG.md

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 ## Main
 
+## [0.8.1](https://github.com/grafana/loki/compare/operator/v0.8.0...operator/v0.8.1) (2025-10-02)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **operator:** Add alert LokiIngesterFlushFailureRateCritical ([#18698](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/18698)) ([66ebc5a](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/66ebc5a184cf1d54b1e41b14b2a76f6601156405))
+* **operator:** Add warning alert for when LokiStack is not getting ready ([#19258](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/19258)) ([c47fe46](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/c47fe465ffeebda3f4f8d84e2aff46dac3a2b878))
+* **operator:** Update Loki operand to v3.5.4 ([#19122](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/19122)) ([155972e](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/155972ec256501af88147c9d4da2382a0bdc2ed2))
+* **operator:** Update Loki operand to v3.5.5 ([#19187](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/19187)) ([743929b](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/743929bf5537b701bb4c86203c79fa08eb68ad08))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **operator:** updated AlertingRule sample to make it comply with the validation we apply ([#18671](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/18671)) ([8e6c018](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/8e6c018665ae8cc692083649042ab991d472ce15))
+* **operator:** upgrade OPA policy syntax for v1+ ([#18795](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/18795)) ([610f43e](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/610f43eb678cdcd537b8dcc19cfd0550c092b371))
+
 ## [0.8.0](https://github.com/grafana/loki/compare/operator/v0.7.1...operator/v0.8.0) (2025-03-17)