v2.1.1

Fixed

• Selecting a namespace after filtering now jumps to the highlighted namespace instead of the first one in the unfiltered list. #551
• Updated the Kubernetes client to kube 4.2.0, so relative paths in a kubeconfig exec credential command now resolve against the kubeconfig location. #541

Changed

• Updated dependencies: anyhow, async-trait, clap, regex, and serde-saphyr to their latest patch versions.

Contributors

Thanks to @mrpbennett for reporting the namespace filter bug (#551) and @Moulick for reporting the kubeconfig relative path issue (#541).

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.1.1

v2.1.0

Added

• --namespace/-n and --context/-c flags to pre-scope the TUI to a namespace and kubeconfig context at startup, matching the equivalent k9s flags. #545

Changed

• Replaced the deprecated serde_yaml with serde_saphyr for config parsing and updated the Kubernetes client and other dependencies. Thanks to @tstenner for the contribution! #543

Contributors

Thanks to @tstenner for the serde_saphyr migration and Kubernetes dependency updates (#543), and to @fuleinist for requesting the startup scoping flags (#545) in this release.

Full Changelog: v2.0.2...v2.1.0

v2.0.2

Changed

• CLI version info is now gathered concurrently with tokio::process, so a config with several slow custom probes no longer blocks startup. Regular expressions in cli_info.custom are also compiled when the configuration loads, so a broken regex is reported at startup instead of being silently ignored when parsing version output. #538

Fixed

• kubectl describe failures now surface the underlying kubectl error, and the "make sure you have kubectl installed" hint only shows when kubectl is actually missing.

Security

• Updated vulnerable transitive dependencies to their patched versions: rustls-webpki, ring, idna, eyre, rand, and tracing-subscriber.

Contributors

Thanks to @tstenner for the async CLI probing work (#538) in this release.

Full Changelog: v2.0.1...v2.0.2

v2.0.1

Added

• Official install.sh script for Linux and macOS with SHA-256 checksum verification and --version pinning, plus an AUR package for Arch Linux.

Fixed

• Context switching now applies to kubectl-backed actions. After switching context with Shift+C, describe, shell exec, edit, and port-forward target the selected context instead of the kubeconfig's current context. #533

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.1

v2.0.0

KDash 2.0 turns the dashboard from read-only into a tool you can act with. You can now manage resources, port-forward, and edit manifests without leaving the TUI, alongside a refreshed UI and faster rendering.

Added

• NEW: Resource management actions. KDash can now act on resources, not just observe them:
  • Delete any resource (Ctrl-d)
  • Edit any resource in your $EDITOR (e); KDash suspends the UI while the editor is open and applies the result on save
  • Scale Deployments/StatefulSets/ReplicaSets/ReplicationControllers to a replica count via an inline input
  • Rollout restart Deployments/StatefulSets/DaemonSets (r)
  • View previous (restarted) container logs (p)
  • Cordon/uncordon nodes and suspend/resume/trigger CronJobs
• NEW: Port-forward a Pod or Service with f, then list and stop active forwards with Shift+F. Forwards run as tracked background processes and are stopped when you quit KDash.
• NEW: Action menu (m) lists every available action for the selected resource; the most-used actions also have dedicated hotkeys surfaced as hints.
• NEW: More built-in themes and runtime theme cycling. Switch themes on the fly with t (next) and Alt+t (previous) across Macchiato, Latte, Gruvbox Dark, Solarized Dark, and Mono, plus an optional custom theme.
• Log view options to toggle timestamps (t) and line wrap (w) while viewing container logs.
• Cycle the main views in reverse with Shift+Tab, reset the view-switch history with Ctrl+H, and jump to the start/end of tables and text views with Home/End.
• Impactful actions are guarded by a confirmation prompt before any change is applied.

Changed

• Refreshed the UI across hints, headers, help, notifications, and gauges for a cleaner, more consistent look.
• Help page now lays out keybindings in two balanced columns.
• Utilization view adds a cluster summary pane.
• Context info panel shows more detail, and the view-switch history is collapsed by default to reduce noise.
• Scrolling is unified across views with smoother behavior. Thanks to @tstenner for the contribution! #530
• Enabled the ratatui layout cache for faster redraws. Thanks to @tstenner for the contribution! #531
• Updated kubectl-view-allocations to 3.0.1 and ratatui to 0.30.1, plus chrono, serde_json, log, clap, strum, and human-panic bumps.

New Contributors

• @tstenner made their first contribution in #531

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v2.0.0

v1.1.2

Release v1.1.2

v1.1.1

Changed

• Add overflow indicators to the resource tabs

v1.1.0

Added

• NEW: Configurable CLI Info entries, including disabling built-in probes, custom commands, optional regex-based version extraction, and control over whether missing binaries are hidden or shown as Not found. Fix #452
• NEW: More columns are shown if viewport is wide enough for most resources including a new 'w' keybind to show all.
• Dynamic resource menu counts now use cached results and show ? while a resource kind has not been loaded yet

Changed

• Resource tabs now auto-scroll to keep the selected tab visible, prefer showing neighboring tabs where possible, and hide zero-count badges for cleaner headers
• CLI Info defaults now include podman and containerd, while istioctl is provided as a sample custom probe instead of a built-in entry
• The More menu is now ordered by more commonly used resources first
• The filter UI is more consistent across different views
• Troubleshoot module is improved. Thanks to @sed-i for the contribution! #513
• UI draw efficiency improvements. Thanks to @sed-i for the contribution! #515

Fixed

• Batched redraw/event handling now coalesces queued ticks and clamps rendering windows to avoid empty tables and YAML slice panics on small or offset views
• Troubleshoot findings now sort deterministically, and follow-up cleanups improved readability in Pod, PVC, and ReplicaSet checks

v1.0.0

Added

• NEW: Shell into container directly from the UI with s keybinding
  • Restore the KDash UI cleanly after leaving an interactive container shell
  • Fall back from /bin/bash to /bin/sh automatically when opening a pod shell
• NEW: Troubleshoot tab with diagnostics and recommendations for common Kubernetes issues across Pods, PVCs, and ReplicaSets, plus direct drill-down into containers, logs, describe, and YAML views. Thanks to @sed-i for the contribution! #505
• NEW: Inline filter/search across resource tables and views, including Contexts, Help, Utilization, Troubleshoot, More, and Dynamic resource menus
• NEW: Aggregate logs for workload resources, so you can view logs from all owned pods in one stream
• NEW: Deeper navigation from resource tables into child views such as Pods, Containers, Logs, Describe, and YAML
• NEW: Custom config support for keybinding overrides, theme overrides, and configurable initial log history via log_tail_lines
• NEW: In-app action to dump recent errors to a file for debugging
• Resource counts in resource tabs and menus
• Events tab with namespaced Kubernetes events, counts, ages, and describe/YAML views. Thanks to @sed-i for the contribution! #504

Changed

• Default dark/light themes now use Catppuccin Macchiato and Catppuccin Latte
• Enter-based navigation now drills into child resources where available and opens Describe on leaf resources
• Dynamic resource discovery now tolerates non-v1 preferred API group versions and reuses cached results
• Kubeconfig changes are watched live so context and namespace state stay in sync without restarting

Fixed

• Log streaming, scrolling, and history handling improvements, including bounded buffers and faster follow behavior. Fix #6
• Reduced startup and UI lag with runtime, describe rendering, and resource-loading improvements
• Better error handling and friendlier messages, including fixes for #484
• Fixes for long-standing issues around namespace fallback and kubeconfig/context refresh (#89, #90, #315)
• HTTPS proxy support, pending pod ready counts, dynamic resource navigation, and other reliability improvements
• Dependency updates and test/CI stability fixes

v0.6.2

Release v0.6.2