We are happy to announce a new beta release for Lens Desktop that addresses the performances issues the application was having when opening tabs and when interacting with Kubernetes Resources. This version improves significantly the overall user experience and offers a smoother general navigation.
We were eager to share these enhancements with our community; therefore, while we stabilize some important known issues and produce a stable release in the upcoming days, we encourage those impacted by the performance to switch to this beta version and give it a try. We are certain you will immediately feel the differences.
How can I try this out?
To test this new version of Lens, please open your current instance of the application, visit the Settings page, and switch the Update Channel property to Beta . Allow Lens a couple of minutes to find the published update, and proceed to upgrade and restart your application.
For Linux users:
The binaries will be updated in the dedicated thread we have for it at Early Access for Linux users until we produce a stable release.
Enhancements and bug fixes
Besides the aforementioned performance improvements, this versions includes more enhancements and bug fixes:
- Lightning-fast user experience when opening tabs
- Colorized tabs to ease the cluster identification
- Theming improvements to increase contrast in the overall interface
- Layout alignment fixes to improve correlations between sections
- Keyboard shortcuts fixes not triggering in certain occasions (or triggering twice)
- New shortcut (Cmd+F / Ctrl + F) to search within tables, terminals and logs
- Improved tab titles for CRDs without connection to clusters
- Upgraded bundled Helm CLI
- Fixed helm chart install dropdown appearance
- MacOS traffic light alignment fixes
- EKS integration improvements to avoid race conditions when reading configs and listing profiles/clusters
- Fixed blank screens appearing when switching tabs
- Fixed grey tabs not loading content after certain time
- Terminal paths not being updated from preferences after changes
What are the known issues?
Visit READ FIRST! Lens 2024 Early Access Version Known Issues for a full list of the issues detected in the product and currently being address by our team
