Aptakube Changelog

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

1.11.0: Bring your own terminal 🥳

✨ 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

📸 Screenshots

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

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

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

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

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

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

1.10.2: Fix for inline editor

🐞 Bugs Fixed

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

1.10.1: Fixes for inline editor

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• bug: secret base64 editor while saving 371
• allow inline editor to be resized

1.10.0: Cluster Overview and a lot more things!

🌟 What's new

• Cluster Overview: similar to Workload Overview, but with a focus on cluster-wide resources like Node and PV #152
• Inline Editor for ConfigMap and Secrets #87 & #213
• Support for ContainerResources in HPA #267
• Support for Shell into Windows containers #269
• New actions when selecting multiple resources #358 and #362
• Support for Refreshable Client Credentials
• Added Status and Desired columns to HPA list

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Default namespace not being selected by default #364
• Fixed an issue with spaces in context and kubeconfig files #367
• Expanded error description on client connection error #356
• Fixed an UI issue with overlapping text and resource usage #369

1.9.1: Mostly bug fixes

🌟 What's new

• Removed the blocking update popup #338
• Added Notes column to Helm release #350
• PV/PVC Capacity columns are now sortable #212

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Kubeconfig: skip reading files that don’t look like yaml
• Added file name that caused kubeconfig parse errors to help troubleshoot issues
• Add the url to the not found page to help troubleshoot issues
• Added missing delete buttons #340
• Fixed an issue when parsing UTF-16 kubeconfig files #341

1.9.0: Workloads Overview

🌟 What's new

• Added Recent Warnings/Restarts/High Resource Usage to Workloads Overview (see screenshot below)
• The initial screen is now configurable, you can choose between Workloads Overview, Pods or Deployments #335

😎 Improvements

• Added a one click clear button to filter input

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• Fixed an issue where sometimes it was not possible to copy logs using Ctrl+C #247
• Fixed a bug when using a shell with a very long list of kubeconfig files
• Fixed keyboard navigation on context selector #339
• Fixed a bug when user does not have access to secrets #301

📸 Screenshot

1.8.1: Proxy improvements & Bug fixes

😎 Improvements

• When creating a new resource, Aptakube will now validate the document for YAML errors before attempting to save it
• Added a Proxy Test button to make it easier to validate that proxy settings are valid

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• [Linux] fix an issue where the app could crash when connected to many clusters
• Fixed the Service template to align with the Deployment template #332

1.8.0: Workloads Overview (Part 1)

🌟 What's new

• Added a new initial screen called Workload Overview, which includes a list of all workload by status. It also works with multiple clusters, so you can connect to as many as you want and instantly find issues with your Pods, Deployments, etc.
• This is just the first release, with a lot more planned for the next release, but I wanted to get this out early to get some early feedback as I iterate and keep improving it. Join me on Discord or send me an email with your suggestions!

😎 Improvements

• Added an option to merge kubeconfig files, which is especially useful for those with incomplete Kubeconfig files. This is basically how Aptakube worked by default up until 1.7.15

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• [Linux] There was an issue with Aptakube on Wayland, so we had to force use of x11. This should now be fixed, but let me know if you run into issues.

📸 Screenshot

1.7.17: Hotfix for Linux AppImage

🐞 Bugs Fixed

• [Linux] Fixed a regression with AppImage WebKit #324