Changelog

ESO Generators, Templates and Refresh Button

✨ New

• External Secrets Operator: added support for Generators and Templates
• External Secrets Operator: added Force Refresh button
• ArgoCD Application: Added auto-sync, prune, and self-heal fields to ApplicationList and ApplicationView Discord

💎 Improvements

• Resource Creation: Improved error message when trying to create a resource with an apiVersion/kind that does not exist.

🐞 Fixes

• Resource Creation: Fix a bug with Ctrl+Shift+C shortcut not working on Linux/Windows
• YAML Editor: Fix a bug where pressing L while editing a YAML Resource would navigate to the Logs tab.

External Secrets, Improved ConfigMap/Secret UI and Multi-Deployment Scaling

✨ New

• External Secrets: Added support for viewing External Secrets under ClusterExternalSecret
• External Secrets: The actual secret values are also shown on ClusterExternalSecret and ExternalSecret
• ConfigMap: Added Copy All action to ConfigMap view
• ConfigMap: Added Hold to Reveal All and Copy All actions to Secret view #397
• Deployments: Added multi-select scale up/down for Deployments and StatefulSet #560 #579
• Command Palette: Added a Create Resource button next to the Command Palette, with matching keybinding

💎 Improvements

• Secrets: TLS/certificate data now shows inline in the item row instead of a separate panel
• Secrets: Hold to Reveal All was also added when comparing two Secrets
• ConfigMap/Secret: General UI improvements across ConfigMap and Secret Views
• Compare View: Added a link back to the resource when comparing two objects

🐞 Fixes

• Command Palette: Fixed a bug where Cmd/Ctrl+K sometimes jumped straight to a specific resource instead of showing the resource list
• Resource List: Fixed a bug where opening the context menu on a row and closing it would clear the current row selection

External Secrets Operator

✨ New

• External Secrets Operator: Added first-class support for ExternalSecret, ClusterExternalSecret, SecretStore and ClusterSecretStore
• YAML Editor: By popular request, the Edit button is back on the YAML Editor
• Software Updates: Added an option to snooze update notifications for 3, 7 or 14 days, configurable via the app settings.

🐞 Fixes

• Command Palette: Fixed a bug that prevent the window from being dragged when command palette was open

Resource Navigation and Improved YAML Editor

✨ New

• Command Palette: Jump to any resource or action without leaving the keyboard. Search, select, and navigate in a single flow, all within the Command Palette window
• YAML Editor: If a resource changes on the cluster while you're editing, the editor alerts you. Compare versions and decide whether to merge server changes or continue with your edits.
• YAML Editor: Review exactly what you're sending before applying. View changes in JSON Patch format to see exactly what is sent to the server when you apply it

💎 Improvements

• Resource Creation: added Cmd/Ctrl + Enter on the create resource modal
• Log Viewer: Added "Clear Logs" button #578

Improved Gateway API Support

✨ New

• Gateway API: Added first-class support for GRCP, TLS and TCP Route
• Gateway API: Improved Gateway View, with added links to GRCP, TLS and TCP Routes, and added allowedRules to the list of Listeners table
• Gateway API: Added first-class support for Gateway Class
• Gateway API: Added links between Gateway and Gateway Class

💎 Improvements

• Helm: add --force-conflicts to Helm upgrade
• Resource Lists: restore ability to select and copy cell content
• Resource Lists: added D as an alternative navigation for resources, Enter remains functional and the primary shortcut
• CRD: Added ability to set custom CRD Icons using a custom annotation aptakube.com/crd-icon-url
• Pods: split Secret vs Pull Secret on the list of references resources
• Navigation: Moved Cluster Overview and Workload Overview into a new Menu Section for easier discoverability

🐞 Fixes

• Command Palette: fixed a bug where clicking outside the command palette would not close the modal

Keyboard Navigation and Compare View

✨ New

• Keyboard Shortcuts: Significantly improved support for Keyboard Navigation in Aptakube, navigation can be done mostly on Keyboard, as well as popular actions like Restart, Edit, Scale, Delete, etc. #234 #81 #59
• Resource Lists: Added ability to select multiple rows by dragging the cursor across them
• Resource Lists: You can now use Cmd+C (Ctrl+C) to copy selected rows to CSV
• Compare Resources: Added option to compare only the Spec/Data fields, and ignore differences on Metadata/Status fields.
• Compare Resources: Added option to show diff only, simplifying comparison on large documents with few differences

💎 Improvements

• Preferences: Changed the preferences panel to be a modal, so settings can change while navigating a cluster
• Recent Restarts: Changed from error to gray color whenever a Pod restarts with Completed as reason
• Custom Resources: The custom resource view is a lot more responsive and makes better use of empty space on large objects
• Custom Resources: Reverted the CRD list to hierarchical view, grouped by apiGroup, instead of a flat list of all kinds
• User Interface: Respect macOS scrollbar visibility setting #96
• Custom Resources: Added the delete button to all Custom Resources view that were previously missing.
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Added Cmd+/ (Ctrl+/) to show all app keyboard shortcuts

🐞 Fixes

• Node List: Fixed a bug where Evited pods were being counted when calculating schedule pods, and CPU/Memory allocation
• Preferences: Improve Kubeconfig settings when there's lots of kubeconfig sources
• Command Palette: fix a bug where mouse was interfering with the item selection

GitOps menu and Performance improvements

💎 Improvements

• Navigation: Added a new GitOps menu option for clusters with either FluxCD or ArgoCD
• Navigation: Added Gateway API resources to Networking menu
• Log Viewer: Aptakube now waits for containers to be Ready when looking at the logs, instead of failing instantly
• Gateway API: Added links to external URLs on the Rules column of HTTP Routes
• Performance: Significantly reduced CPU and Network usage when the app is idle
• Performance: Improved performance of ConfigMap and Secret views for resources with 1000+ data entries
• Pod: Pod probes now show the port number instead of port name

🐞 Fixes

• Update: The Later button on the update popup now works as expected
• Table: The column resizer is now easier to grab
• Table: Deleting a Pod in the Node View no longer returns it to the Pod List Discord

Ingress Link, Redirect on delete and other improvements

✨ New

• Resource Browser: After deleting a resource, we now automatically redirect back to the List View #110
• Networking: Added Ingress reference links to Services
• Networking: Added an External Link on Gateway API HTTP Routes for quicker navigation

💎 Improvements

• Workloads Overview: Improved the layout of Recent Restarts and Recent Warnings for large amount of items
• Custom Resources: Improved how we render Spec/Status split view so you can now scroll the content
• Design: A handful of small design updates
• Misc: Refactor how we route views internally

🐞 Fixes

• Command Palette: Fix the input focus on typing
• Command Palette: Fixed the double Overview items, it'll now show up as Workload Overview and Cluster Overview

Links between Pods, Services and Gateway HTTP Route

✨ What's new

• Added links between Pods, Services and Gateway HTTP Route
• Added matching Pods to Gateway API HTTP route
• Added a Warning Count badge to Events tab so you know there are events worth looking at
• Improve UX of Workload Overview to reduce flashing panels

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed filter bug where condition is status Discord

Volume Attachment and Links between PV, PVC, VA

✨ What's new

• Add support for Volume Attachment, which was also added to Cluster Overview
• Added Volume Attachment to Cluster Overview
• Resource Tabs (Overview/YAML/Events, etc) are now also part of tab history so it works as expected with Back/Forward features
• Add setting to restore previous behaviour of showing context selector on launch #573

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• fix filter bug on Workloads/Cluter Overview Discord

List of resource references and fixes

✨ What's new

• Cross-reference links for common resources like Deployments, ConfigMap, Secrets, PriorityClasses, etc
• Some different shades of gray across the app, with more design changes to come
• Redesigned the sidebar, inspired by Slack
• Redesigned the tabs, inspired by VSCode and Brave
• The list of CRDs is now flat, rather than being displayed hierarchically
• The metadata section on the object view can be collapsed to reduce visual clutter

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• fix broken Back/Forward mouse buttons after tabs were added #571

Drag tab outside window and Bug fixes

✨ What's new

• Drag a Tab outside the window to move it to a new window
• New Terminal button changed to automatically select connected clusters
• Removed coloring from Last Restart Reason

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• [Linux] fix pasting on YAML Editor Discord

kubectl attach, open in new window and some fixes

✨ What's new

• Added support for kubectl attach
• Added Shift+Click as a shortcut to open link in new window

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• correctly process ANSI clear escape sequences
• fixed a regression where the log settings button was invisible

Tabs, auto-reconnect and other improvements!

✨ What's new

• Aptakube now supports Tabs, with a similar experience as Browsers. The shortcut for favorites changed to F1-F12 as Cmd/Ctrl 1-9 feels more natural for tabs. #54
• Auto-reconnect to last connected cluster when launching Aptakube
• Added ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding #530
• Added Cmd/Ctrl+E and Cmd/Ctrl+S as shortcuts for YAML Editor.
• Added option to selected matching namespace when filtering is active Discord

😎 Improvements

• Custom UI for Priority Classes
• Change default terminal to InApp instead of External
• Added ability to Reset column settings back to default state
• Increase max width for Sidebar when resizing
• Added support for terabytes instead of showing a large gigabytes numbers #566

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• fix remember sort by custom column Discord
• [Linux] Fixed how we process clipboard actions on Linux #562
• Fixed various layout bugs
• Fixed how we count nodes on Karpenter NodePool #567

General Updates

This release contains no public-facing changes, only underlying dependency updates to enhance stability.

Bug fixes

✨ What's new

• added a keyboard shortcut to refresh Metrics views (⌘R / Ctrl+R) with updated tooltip hints #563

😎 Improvements

• re-added the option to force refresh #563
• improved error handling on YAML Editor

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• fixed a crash path in Command Palette
• fixed some UI inconsistencies
• fixed a minor leak on YAML Editor

Scheduling Conditions and Networking Improvements

✨ What's new

• Added Scheduling conditions to Deployments/StatefulSet/DaemonSet/Argo Rollout

😎 Improvements

• Reduced the number of TCP connections to the API Server

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed a bug with Node List sort not being saved

Improved Connection Recovery and some Bug Fixes

😎 Improvements

• Improved how we reconnect to the Kubernetes API whenever the connection is lost #558
• Added Connection status (Green Circle, Warning Triangle, Loading) to other places that it was missing
• Added ability to filter resources by their uid
• Name column is now sorted using a Natural Sort (worker-3 is shown after worker-2, instead of worker-21)

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• [Windows] Fixed a bug when scrolling up/down on the Log Viewer Discord
• [macOS] Fixed a bug when launching Apple Terminal

PVC Status and Bug Fixes

😎 Improvements

• Added PVC status to Workload Overview and Namespace View
• Added sticky filters to child resources table #561
• Added button to clear active filter when no resources are found

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fix Compare View not always #558
• Fix filter on Events table

"kubectl get all -n" and Fixes

✨ What's new

• added a list of namespace resources in the Namespace View, similar to kubectl get all -n {namespace}, but including some popular CRDs too

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• [Windows] fixed a bug where YAML Editor failed to load

Bug Fixes

😎 Improvements

• Added an option to paste from clipboard into In-App Terminal using Mouse Right Click

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed an issue with theme not loading correctly

Some improvements after a large release 🙂

😎 Improvements

• added option to sort CronJob by NextRun
• added option to toggle CronJob schedule between Cron Expression and a Human Friendly format
• added TERM_PROGRAM=Aptakube to In-App Terminal
• updated how we load PATH environment variables on Windows

In-App Terminal, Custom Columns and a lot more!

✨ What's new

• added an optional In-App Terminal as an alternative to External Terminals #86
• added ability to defined Custom Columns based on Labels and Annotations #34
• added a more flexible and powerful filtering syntax, with support for multi-word and negative conditions #360 #297

😎 Improvements

• added Provider ID as a column for Node and Karpenter NodeClaim
• added option to Refresh list of CRDs without having to reconect to the cluster #424
• added a Next Run column to list of CronJobs
• added Kubernetes version to connected clusters #191
• aded support for HTTPS Proxy #553
• added Namespace status to Cluster Overview
• added a column to distinguish between DaemonSet Pods vs Other Pods in Node View
• list of favorites resources is now pinned while scrolling Discord

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• [Linux] fixed a bug when launching Konsole #554
• [Linux] fixed a bug where Ptyxis was not being detected 497
• fixed an issue with scrolling through ConfigMap items #552
• fixed an issue where proxy settings were not being used when looking for latest release
• fixed an issue with the Current/Updated column in StatefulSet #548
• fixed a text overflow issue in Service Account #546
• fixed an issue with how we parse YAML true/false/yes/no 550

HPA on Workload Overview + Bug Fixes

😎 Improvements

• Added HPA to Workload Overview

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Limit the size of ConfigMap items while in readonly
• Deployment was unable to be scaled to 0 if managed by KEDA/HPA #545
• Fix FluxCD Helm Release Status Discord

Integration with Karpenter, KEDA, FluxCD and other improvements

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed target link on KEDA ScaledObject Discord
• [Windows] Fixed a transient window created during authentication Discord
• Fixed the list of Jobs that belong to a CronJob Discord
• Fixed sorting CronJobs by Last Schedule

Integration with Karpenter, KEDA, FluxCD and other improvements

✨ What's new

• Custom UI for Karpenter (AWS/Azure/GCP) with support for NodeClaims and NodePools #531
• Custom UI for Keda: ScaledObject
• Custom UI for FluxCD: GitRepository, Kustomization and HelmReleases and HelmRepository
• Custom UI for PodDisruptionBudget
• Added NodeClaims and NodePools to Cluster Overview
• Added PodDisruptionBudget, Kustomization and HelmReleases to Workload Overview
• List of nodes now include CPU/Memory allocation as columns

😎 Improvements

• Rich-text editor for ConfigMap/Secrets: Discord
• Added debug profiles for Pods and Nodes
• validate port forward permission Discord
• added view logs context menu action #541
• Scaling a Deployment that is managed by HPA or KEDA is now disabled, and replaced with a link to the scaler

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• fixed a rendering bug with Log Viewer when filtering is active
• validate port forward permission before starting the process Discord
• [macOS] Fixed an issue when nushell is the default shell #543

Some improvements and bug fixes

😎 Improvements

• Improved performance of Log Viewer
• Added support for resourceFieldRef in Pod environment variables
• Added option drag and drop YAML files when creating resources
• Added support for ca.tls in Secrets

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• fixed how we display events count
• fixed Gateway API links in Events list
• fixed HTTP/GRPC route status with multiple parents Discord

HTTP/GRPC rules column + Fixes

😎 Improvements

• Added "Rules" column to HTTP/GRPC list Discord

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• [macOS] Fixed an issue where Aptakube would sometimes crash when switching context

Gateway API UI Improvements

😎 Improvements

• Various improvements to Gateway API UI Improvements, such as GRPCRoute, HTTP Route Status column, Parent Conditions, and a more complete matching support with Headers and QueryParams
• CPU and Memory are now fetched much sooner on first load, instead of waiting for first tick on configured interval
• Added support for Alacritty terminal on Linux, thanks @Daedaluz for the PR https://github.com/aptakube/launch-terminal-rs/pull/7
• Added a few more CRD icons

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed an issue where on first load it would pickup the default namespaces from various clusters, instead of only the selected cluster.

Gateway API UI Improvements

😎 Improvements

• Various improvements to Gateway API UI Improvements, such as GRPCRoute, HTTP Route Status column, Parent Conditions, and a more complete matching support with Headers and QueryParams
• CPU and Memory are now fetched much sooner on first load, instead of waiting for first tick on configured interval
• Added support for Alacritty terminal on Linux, thanks @Daedaluz for the PR https://github.com/aptakube/launch-terminal-rs/pull/7
• Added a few more CRD icons

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed an issue where on first load it would pickup the default namespaces from various clusters, instead of only the selected cluster.

Bug Fixes

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed how we parse Event timestamp
• Fixed how we load the default namespace from Kubeconfig on first launch
• Fixed the Cluster and Workload Overview pages on ultrawide monitors
• Fixed the Set Image/Tag function when using init containers