Aptakube Changelog

Release Notes for Aptakube

Latest Β· Released onOctober 16, 2025

1.13.5: Sort Favorites, foundation for SSO and bug fixes!

✨ What's new

  • You can now sort of favorite items with drag and drop! #488
  • This releases includes some foundation changes that will soon allow you to activate Aptakube with SSO credentials instead of using a License Key. If you're on a Team License and interested in SSO activation, reach out to me goenning@aptakube.com

😎 Improvements

  • Secret/ConfigMap item names are selectable so you can copy them

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix a bug with Port Forwarding failing with a timeout of 10 seconds #490

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October 9, 2025

1.13.4: Patching!

✨ What's new

  • The YAML is now editable when launching a new Job via the CronJob trigger Discord

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix a bug when using Line Wrap on the log viewer Discord

September 30, 2025

1.13.3: Favorites Menu and Resources ⭐️

✨ What's new

  • You can now pin menu items and resources to the top of the left side bar using the new Favorites feature!

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix for lead whitespace missing on logs
  • fix for empty space when zooming in/out on the log viewer #482
  • fix bug pod status showing as Complete when there are other containers still running #483

πŸ“Έ Screenshots

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September 16, 2025

1.13.2: Improvements and bug fixes

😎 Improvements

  • Aptakube now remembers which containers you have enabled/disable during a Log Stream session. So if you enable a istio-proxy container during a log streaming session, it'll remain enabled when you come back. Discord
  • Replaced the custom aptakube.com/restartedAt annotation with the standard kubectl.kubernetes.io/restartedAt during a restart action
  • added ServiceAccount hyperlink in Pod Overview Discord

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed an issue when launching Node Shell pods on nodes with custom taints #479
  • Fixed an issue where log stream sessions would remain active even when no longer visible Discord
  • Fixed an issue with how we compute status for StatefulSet Discord
  • Fixed a bug with ConfigMap / Secret link from environment variables Discord
  • Fixed a bug with HTML logs Discord

August 28, 2025

1.13.1: Fixing some bugs!

😎 Improvements

  • remember Open in Browser settings whenever starting new port forward Discord
  • start connections in parallel #468

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix for JSONPath columns in CRD using escape chars #476
  • fix secret decoding of non-ASCII chars Discord

August 19, 2025

1.13.0: Auto-reconnect on timeout

😎 Improvements

  • automatically reconnect after timeout during a watch or log streaming session Discord
  • improved performance for Workloads Overview page

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix font loading Discord
  • remove X25519MLKEM768 kx group #473

August 11, 2025

1.12.6: Multi-column filter, auto-reconnect and other fixes

✨ What's new

  • add Tolerations and NodeSelector data to Pod View
  • support for multi-column filter. E.g: prod-us keda will look for objects with both prod-us AND keda. This can be useful to filter by context, namespace and name.
  • Resource Watcher and Log Streamer will now automatically reconnect after a timeout

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix column reordering feature Discord
  • fix parsing for "k" suffix quantities #465
  • fix bulk uninstall Helm Releases Discord
  • fix env and envFrom order on Pod View

August 5, 2025

1.12.5: Support for Bold/Dim on Log Viewer

✨ What's new

  • Log Viewer now supports Bold and Dim ANSI escape codes #469
  • Moved the log filter to the top so all controls are close together

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix a recent regression when namespace and cluster share the same name
  • fix for Job/CronJob menu highlight
  • fix for some edge cases logs rendering
  • potential fix for how we parse cpu/memory on resource quotas #465

July 31, 2025

1.12.4: Deep Link (aka: Magnet Link 🧲)

✨ What's new

  • added support for Deep Linking / Magnet Links in Aptakube #308
  • every page on Aptakube has a link button at top right that can be used to quickly link users from anywhere directly to a Kubernetes resource in Aptakube

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix for log viewer not using the correct font

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July 29, 2025

1.12.3: Some more fixes

😎 Improvements

  • Added more space to the Volume Card under the container tabs

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fixed an issue on how we parse resource quota values #465
  • [macOS] fixed an issue with the copy button clickable area

βš™οΈ Miscellaneous

  • Updated all dependencies to get ready for new stuff!

July 24, 2025

1.12.2: Customize Log Font Size

😎 Improvements

  • Log font size is now customizable: Small / Default / Large

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fixed an issue with the log viewer being cut off when using line wrap

July 23, 2025

1.12.1: The usual patch after a major release :)

Break fast, fix faster!

😎 Improvements

  • default font size for the log viewer is smaller than before
  • added Context to Recent Restarts panel on Workload Overview

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fixed an issue with the new log viewer being unresponsive when using with an unstable number of pods.
  • fixed an issue with contrast between the log viewer and the popup panels

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July 22, 2025

1.12.0: All-New Log Viewer if finally here!

πŸ™Œ Log Viewer v2

We completely rebuild the Log Viewer in Aptakube to support a lot of features that were not possible before.

Here's a limited list of things available on the new Log Viewer:

  • Toggle On/Off Line Wrap
  • Go Full Screen
  • Coloring/Syntax Highlight for JSON, logfmt and ANSI colors
  • Filter or Highlight search terms, with the option to move forward/back
  • Much better performance on containers with high log throughput
  • Better Pod / Container selector
  • Multiple timestamp options: Local, UTC or Off
  • Press Space to add a visual mark
  • and a lot more... go give it a try :)

✨ What's new

  • add Logs tab to Job #255
  • add Resource Quota to Overview
  • Improved Resource Quota List and View to make easier to use
  • add sidecar container to Pod View tabs #456
  • add context to Pod Abnormal Resource Usage #461
  • Add labels filters to popular views like Pods, Deployment, Service, and many others #90 and #177

😎 Improvements

  • Improve Port Forward UI to make it easier to use Discord
  • Use Fuzzysort for namespace filter, it's much smarter and powerful now!
  • Added Conditions to Deployment View
  • Add Owner column to Job List
  • Highlight Delete action in red Discord
  • add missing Namespace column to HPA #460

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix Job showing status as Running instead of Pending
  • fix Deployment List desired/replicas column
  • fix Helm display error Discord
  • [macOS] CMD+W no longer closes the last window, so you can easily reopen it

πŸ“Έ Screenshots

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June 19, 2025

1.11.10: New Windows Code Signing Certificate

Nothing new on this one, new features coming on the next release ☺️

The previous Windows Code Signing Certificate was about to expire, so this release is exactly the same as 1.11.9, but with a new certificate.

June 17, 2025

1.11.9: Fix for zsh shells

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • When adding support for non-zsh shells on last release, I actually broken zsh shells (oops 😬) so here's a fix.

June 17, 2025

1.11.8: Native sidecar & bug fixes

😎 Improvements

  • Support for native sidecar #452
  • Support for non-zsh shell on macOS #454

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • added mouse wheel support again #451

June 12, 2025

1.11.7: Bug fixes

😎 Improvements

  • Align some of the columns on Deployments/StatefulSet/DaemonSet #430

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • Block accidental file drops #446
  • Support Right+Click to open Context Menu on macOS #447
  • Added support for Leaf SSL Certificate on certificate-authority to align with kubectl #445

June 4, 2025

1.11.6: Debug Container + Rollback + Tabby Terminal

✨ What's new

  • Add Tabby terminal (thanks @wiboubou for the PR)
  • Support for deployment rollback via the Revisions tab Discord

😎 Improvements

  • added debug action to Pod view
  • added β€”param when debugging containers #434
  • support for relative and $HOME expansion on icon-url #437

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • larger column resizer to make it easier to use Discord
  • fixed issue when HelmReleaseInfo has a null description #439
  • fixed issue when starting shell on large node names #440
  • start terminal on $HOME instead of a random temp dir Discord
  • fixed an issue with sorting by CPU/Memory Metrics #444

May 2, 2025

1.11.5: More quality of life improvements

😎 Improvements

  • Aptakube will no longer warn of duplicate contexts when processing the same file twice
  • Ownership links now support CRD resources Discord
  • Port Forward will now validate whether selected port is available or already in use Discord
  • Remove cell flash from metrics #131

🐞Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where the screen would scroll up after changes to Pods #431

April 14, 2025

1.11.4: Debug, Ephemeral Containers, Custom Image and more

✨ What's new

  • Changed the existing Shell feature on Nodes to use a high privilege pod which has access to the host.
    • The previous Shell functionality is now named Debug to better align with the underlying command used: kubectl debug #423
  • Added Debug feature to Pods alongside the existing Shell feature #82
  • Image used by Shell/Debug features can now be customised instead of using the default busybox:latest #82
  • Added support for Ephemeral containers to Pods #416
  • Added a list of ReplicaSets to the Deployment view, which can be used as a list of recent changes/revisions

😎 Improvements

  • removed init containers from Pod container tabs
  • Added System theme as an alternative to fixed Dark/Light theme #95
  • use initContainer status and restart count when applicable
  • changed default sort column DaemonSet and ReplicaSet to revision number
  • added Algorithm and SAN to TLS Certificate View

April 7, 2025

1.11.3: ControllerRevision and TLS Certificate Info

✨ What's new

  • Ability to decode Secrets of type=kubernetes.io/tls #178
  • Added Revisions tab to DaemonSet and StatefulSet #285

😎 Improvements

  • [macOS] use zsh by default when starting a terminal
  • [Linux] Redirect user to GitHub when a new update is available

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed a bug when there's too many tabs #393

March 25, 2025

1.11.2: Fix for resource filter

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • Fix an issue where CRD could not be filtered #418

March 24, 2025

1.11.1: The usual patch after the release ☺️

😎 Improvements

  • Add Uninstall Helm Release button

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • [Windows] fix crash when running on Windows Insider Preview
  • Fix crash when there's no supported Terminal installed
  • revert rustls upgrade that caused issues with some clusters #415

March 21, 2025

1.11.0: Bring your own terminal πŸ₯³

✨ What's new

  • Added the ability to launch a terminal on currently connected context #218
  • The external Terminal used by Aptakube is now configurable, with many new terminals added
    • macOS: Apple Terminal, iTerm2, Warp, Ghostty, Kitty, WezTerm
    • Windows: Default Windows Terminal
    • Linux: GNOME Terminal, Konsole, Kitty, Ghostty
  • The module we use for launching terminals is now open source at aptakube/launch-terminal-rs, which should facilitate adding support for new terminals thanks to other contributors. Special thanks to @Daedaluz @lenstr @dustinrouillard for helping out on the first release ❀️

😎 Improvements

  • Improved our Windows container detection login when starting a container shell
  • Moved toaster notifications to bottom right

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix an issue on clusters with a very large number of namespaces #404
  • fixed issue with cache overflow after storing 5MB of data
  • fixed an issue with Zoom shortcuts #405
  • [macOS] fix a crash when using some menu links #406
  • [macOS] fixed an issue with wrong kubectl path being used https://github.com/aptakube/aptakube/issues/412

πŸ“Έ Screenshots

February 25, 2025

1.10.8: Fix for log viewer

😎 Improvements

  • added support for auth-required HTTP Proxy on kubeconfigs
  • added shortcut to unselect namespace using Shift+Click #399

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • fix log viewer by temporarily reverting #393

February 18, 2025

1.10.7: Patching some bugs!

😎 Improvements

  • Support for Kubeconfig files with .conf extension
  • [Windows/macOS] Aptakube now uses platform-specific TLS verification functions which has better support for corporate proxies.

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed a layout issue when using workload overview on small windows
  • Fix an issue with links to CRD from a Helm Release
  • Tabs are now vertically scrollable in case of too many containers #393
  • Fix an issue when trying to copy Pod name using the "Clipboard" button

February 12, 2025

1.10.6: Filter nodes by label, finally!

✨ New

  • You can now filter nodes by its labels and annotations. You can either enter key=value or simply enter the value. These columns will not be visible, but they might be added in future

😎 Improvements

  • [macOS] Added Settings to the menu, also accessible via the default CMD + , shortcut
  • Added an option to show Pods where usage is lower than 50% of requested CPU/Memory
  • Node Shell will now default to kube-system instead of default when creating debugger pods
  • [Linux] Removed dependency on OpenSSL
  • Add option to manually add kubeconfig path, instead of having to select using the OS default file picker
  • The kubeconfig file picker will now default to ~/.kube

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where Aptakube would suggest ports lower than 1024 during Port Forwarding

February 5, 2025

1.10.5: Quality of Life Improvements

😎 Improvements

  • Selected namespaces will now be displayed at the start to make it easier to unselect them #380
  • Added an option to show Pods where usage is lower than 10% or 25% than requested
  • Aptakube will now remember the local port used during Port Forward #389
  • Port Forward will also suggest using the same remote port locally

January 27, 2025

1.10.4: Fixes for Cluster Overview + Linux Diff View

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where cluster overview was using Pod metrics instead of Node metrics;
  • [Linux] Fixed an issue with missing diff highlight when comparing resources

January 23, 2025

1.10.3: Improvements to Cluster Overview

😎 Improvements

  • Cluster Overview will now also show the overall cluster CPU/Memory usage
  • Improved error message when creating namespaced resources without specifying a namespace

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • [Windows] Fixed an issue with incorrectly used double quotes when falling back to CMD for shell access #372

January 19, 2025

1.10.2: Fix for inline editor

🐞 Bugs Fixed

  • bug: could not save secrets that have double quotes 371