Aptakube Changelog

1.15.0: Set Image, CRD Filter and Favorites QoL

✨ What's new

• Favorite items can now be accessed via keyboard shorts
• You can also add/remove favorites from the resource grid, without having to open an object
• There's also a new menu filter for CRDs, pretty useful for those with lots of CRDs #520
• Deployments/DaemonSet/StatefulSet now show the list of containers on their overview tab
• Kind of related to above, you can now also change the container image from the overview tab

😎 Improvements

• Annotations that looks like link will now be rendered as a link
• HPA resources are now sorted using a smarter algorithm based on their actual usage Discord

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed a bug where OpenInNewWindow/See YAML context menu was not working for some CRDs
• Fixed an issue where the container tab on Pods were showing a different status compared to Overview

1.14.4: Platform Update

This release does not contain any new feature, it's just an update for all dependencies.

1.14.3: VolumeAttributesClass, Image Volume and bug fixes

😎 Improvements

• Aded hostPath to Volume Card in Pod View Discord
• Added support for Kubernetes Image Volume in Pod View Discord
• Added Link to CRD Definition when the list is empty #515
• Added button to close all active Port Forward sessions #518
• Added support for VolumeAttributesClass v1 (not Beta/Alpha) #506

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed window shortcuts when using multi-window #514
• Fixed a crashing bug when deleting a StatefulSet
• Fixed a Helm bug when the values field is empty #523
• [macOS] Fixed a bug unable to close the app on macOS Discord
• [Windows] Fixed a bug that prevented scrolling on tables Discord

1.14.2: Bugfixes and SSO for Google Workspaces

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Refresh Helm release after upgrade/downgrade #503
• SSO now works with Google Workspace using Client ID + Client Secret

1.14.1: Bugfixes and SSO for Google Workspaces

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Suppress error message when metrics server not installed / accessible
• Fix for objectstorage/size format in Resource Quota #254
• SSO now works with localhost redirect_uri, which should now support OIDC via Google Workspace

1.14.0: Configurable Metrics Server Interval + SSO flow changes

✨ What's new

• It's now possible to configure (and even disable) how often Aptakube fetches metrics from the Kubernetes API. There's also now a button to manually refresh metrics using a button.
• SSO Activation now exchanges OIDC token from the client instead of the server, which supports more complex IDP rules.

😎 Improvements

• There's a now a refresh button to retry connections instead of forcing users to go back to home screen and refreshing it #495 and Discord

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• fix how we parse Helm releases created by Helm 4
• The TLS Certificate view on Secrets now use human friendly formats for IPv4/IPv6 instead of Hex. Discord

1.13.6: General Fixes and SSO in Beta 🔑

✨ What's new

• SSO Activation is in Beta. Participating users will get an email soon about it.

😎 Improvements

• Port Forward will now use Target Port when suggesting a Local Port Discord
• Add Copy functionality to error popups
• Larger scrollbars on Log Viewer
• SSO Activation now supports the state parameter

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• fix for very long error message not being fully visible

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

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

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

📸 Screenshots

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

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

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

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

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

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

📸 Screenshots

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

⚙️ Miscellaneous

• Updated all dependencies to get ready for new stuff!

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

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

📸 Screenshots

1.12.0: All-New Log Viewer if finally here!

🙌 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

📸 Screenshots

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.

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.

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

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

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 —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

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

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

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

1.11.2: Fix for resource filter

🐞 Bugs Fixed

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

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