Aptakube Changelog

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

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