What's new in Aptakube

✨ New

• Context Settings: You can now enter a domain like example.com in the icon picker to use that context icon

🐞 Fixes

• Tags: When the connected contexts share more than one tag, the sidebar now show all of them (#prod #aws) instead of only the first tag #585
• Resource Lists: Ages of 100 days or more no longer show the hour.
• CRDs: Fixed a crash when opening some custom resources like DatadogMetric

✨ New

• Change Protection: Contexts can now be set to Protected or Read-only. Aptakube then blocks anything that changes the cluster or runs a command in it (create, edit, delete, scale, restart, et.). Protected Contexts can be temporarily unlocked.
• Contexts: You can now give each context an icon, a color, tags and Change Protection from within Aptakube.
• Contexts: A context's color shows on its avatar, as a dot in the Context column, in the Command Palette and detail headers, and on the dialogs and shell tabs of that context
• Navigation: Added G then key shortcuts to jump to the most used views, like G P for Pods, G D for Deployments and G H for Helm Releases. The full list is in Keyboard Shortcuts
• Navigation: Added Cmd+O (Ctrl+O) to go to the Context Selector
• Command Palette: Added common actions: New Tab, New Window, Create Resource, Open in Terminal, Zoom, Theme, Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts and Check for Updates

💎 Improvements

• Zoom: Ctrl+Wheel now zooms in and out on Windows and Linux
• Revisions: The current revision of a Deployment, StatefulSet or DaemonSet now has a Current tag, and Rollback is disabled for it
• ConfigMaps: Values scroll with the mouse wheel without clicking them first. On every view with an editor, a scroll that starts on the page now keeps scrolling the page

🐞 Fixes

• Revisions: Fixed Rollback being disabled for the previous revision during a stuck rollout
• Gateway API: Fixed the Matching Pods list of HTTPRoutes
• Argo Rollouts: Fixed completed steps being white text in the light theme

✨ New

• Sign in: For those using SSO with EKS/GKE/AKS, when the session expires or invalid, Aptakube will now show a Sign in with ... button that launches the SSO sign in process for you, so you no longer have to switch between the app and a terminal session to authenticate.

💎 Improvements

• Performance: Aptakube went on a diet and is now about 30% smaller than before. This reduction in size also means it starts faster.
  • macOS (.dmg): 32.7 MB → 23.5 MB (−28%)
  • Windows (.msi): 16.6 MB → 11.5 MB (−31%)
  • Linux (.deb): 17 MB → 12.1 MB (−29%)

✨ New

• VPA: Added VPA (Vertical Pod Autoscaler) as a first-class resource in Aptakube, giving you a much clearer view on its recommended resources for matching pods.
• Helm: Added shortcuts to Upgrade (U) and Rollback (R)
• Helm: Upgrade and Rollback now happen on the background, with the status reported on a persistent notification. Upgrade actions can be cancelled.
• Helm: Redesigned the Rollback modal for more clarity and better usability, giving you the option to compare values before start a rollback
• Helm: Helm Releases now have all standard context menu actions, as well as Upgrade and Rollback, to keep the UX consistent with other resources
• Navigation: Added a new browser-link shortcut for "Open In New Tab and Focus".

💎 Improvements

• Helm: When the Helm CLI is not installed, we'll add a link to instructions on how to install it. #396
• Navigation: Added Shift+Click on Switch Context as an option to open a new window on the context selector.
• ArgoCD: Added an optional "Prune" option when performing a sync on an ArgoCD App. #584

🐞 Fixes

• Helm: Helm Releases now show the actual release name, rather than the underlying secret name.
• Navigation: Fixed a bug where Ctrl+Click on the Switch Context would open a browser window.

Performance-only release. Lists, watches, and navigation should feel noticeably quicker, especially on large clusters.

✨ New

• Resources: Added support for MutatingAdmissionPolicy and MutatingAdmissionPolicyBindings

💎 Improvements

• Node Drain: Draining a node will no longer freeze the app, it'll instead report the progress with the option to wait until it's complete, or cancel it.
• Resources: You can now filter lists using regex by wrapping the expression in /, e.g: ^api-\d+$/
• Log Viewer: The histogram view on the log viewer has been updated to match exactly what logs you're seeing on the stream, so the previous "white bar" was replaced with a "range selector"

Misc

• Updated Tauri/Rust dependencies.

✨ New

• Log Viewer: Added the option to view logs from pods of multiple Deployments/ReplicaSets/DaemonSet/StatefulSet. Just select two or more deployments and press L (or Right Click > Logs)
• Log Viewer: Added an EOF log entry when a container exits and won't restart.
• macOS: Add New Window and list of windows to macOS dock menu #349
• YAML Editor: Added a temporary/experimental feature to change the field manager name when making updates to an object #580
• PodTemplate: Added basic support for PodTemplate Discord

💎 Improvements

• Log Viewer: Improved how we render the Mark (when pressing space), which now works well with all selected options (line wrap, different timestamp formats)
• Ingress: Add Copy button to Ingress Rules #582

🐞 Fixes

• Log Viewer: Fix a bug where unselecting a container would not clear the logs Discord
• YAML Editor: Fixed an issue where horizontal scroll was not working even though the scrollbar was visible #581

✨ New

• Scheduling: add Pod Affinity and Pod Anti-Affinity to Pod/Deploy/DS/RS/SS
• Delete Resource: add option to set --cascade=orphan when deleting some resources

💎 Improvements

• Log Viewer: Log lines now stay aligned when viewing pods with different name lengths

🐞 Fixes

• Windows Containers: Fix shell command for Windows Containers when running on macOS

✨ New

• Log Viewer: The all new log viewer includes a bunch of improvements such as: Log Level filtering via structured parsing, improved performance, histogram for log volumes with quick navigation, different formats for download/copy, regex/match case filtering, inverse filtering and pause/resume
• Log Viewer: View logs from multiple unrelated pods, just select some and right click (or press L) to view combined logs

💎 Improvements

• Navigation: Auto scroll the sidebar to the selected Kind when using Cmd+K

🐞 Fixes

• CRDs: Fixed a bug where the CRD filter would become invisible if no CRDs were found
• Windows: Fix Shift+Ctrl+C windows bug on In-App Terminal Discord
• Windows: Fix Ctrl+J showing the system's download dialog Discord

✨ 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.

✨ 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

💎 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

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

✨ 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

✨ 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

😎 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

😎 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

✨ 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

😎 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

😎 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