diff --git a/charts/cass-operator/Chart.yaml b/charts/cass-operator/Chart.yaml
index 406063178..36146ae3a 100644
--- a/charts/cass-operator/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/cass-operator/Chart.yaml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ name: cass-operator
 description: |
   Kubernetes operator which handles the provisioning and management of Apache Cassandra clusters.
 type: application
-version: 0.46.2
-appVersion: 1.18.2
+version: 0.47.0
+appVersion: 1.19.0
 dependencies:
   - name: k8ssandra-common
     version: 0.29.0
diff --git a/charts/cass-operator/crds/cassandradatacenters.yaml b/charts/cass-operator/crds/cassandradatacenters.yaml
index 5aadfc8da..7dedbd6c8 100644
--- a/charts/cass-operator/crds/cassandradatacenters.yaml
+++ b/charts/cass-operator/crds/cassandradatacenters.yaml
@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ spec:
           spec:
             description: CassandraDatacenterSpec defines the desired state of a CassandraDatacenter
             properties:
+              additionalAnnotations:
+                additionalProperties:
+                  type: string
+                description: Additional Annotations allows to define additional labels
+                  that will be included in all objects created by the operator. Note,
+                  user can override values set by default from the cass-operator and
+                  doing so could break cass-operator functionality.
+                type: object
               additionalLabels:
                 additionalProperties:
                   type: string
diff --git a/charts/cass-operator/values.yaml b/charts/cass-operator/values.yaml
index 99eb44c1c..298b1dc73 100644
--- a/charts/cass-operator/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/cass-operator/values.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ global:
 # -- A name in place of the chart name which is used in the metadata.name of
 # objects created by this chart.
 nameOverride: ''
-
 # -- A name in place of the value used for metadata.name in objects created by
 # this chart. The default value has the form releaseName-chartName.
 fullnameOverride: ''
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@ image:
   # -- Pull policy for the operator container
   pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
   # -- Tag of the cass-operator image to pull from image.repository
-  tag: v1.18.2
+  tag: v1.19.0
   # -- Docker registry containing all cass-operator related images. Setting this
   # allows for usage of an internal registry without specifying serverImage,
   # configBuilderImage, and busyboxImage on all CassandraDatacenter objects.
@@ -80,7 +79,7 @@ tolerations: []
 # systemLogger is our Vector image, configBuilder creates valid Cassandra configuration for
 # 3.11/4.0 and DSE 6.8, while k8ssandraClient is used to build configs for 4.1
 imageConfig:
-  systemLogger: cr.k8ssandra.io/k8ssandra/system-logger:v1.18.2
+  systemLogger: cr.k8ssandra.io/k8ssandra/system-logger:v1.19.0
   configBuilder: cr.dtsx.io/datastax/cass-config-builder:1.0-ubi8
   k8ssandraClient: cr.k8ssandra.io/k8ssandra/k8ssandra-client:v0.2.2
 # -- metrics allows to change the configuration of how metrics are exposed. Default is