We are happy to announce a new stable release for Lens Desktop that significantly improves the overall performance of the application when interacting with Kubernetes Resources, addresses multiple bugs and offers a new set of features as a response to the valuable feedback we have gathered from our community.
To ensure a smooth transition and minimize disruption we’ll start by rolling out the update to a small portion of our users, then incrementally increasing this number until all users have access to the update. If you have not received the update and wish to you can download this release manually at our website .
Here’s what you can expect:
- Lightning-fast user experience when opening tabs.
- Colorized tabs and navigator to ease the cluster identification.
- Convenient cluster search through our command palette to quickly find and reveal clusters in the navigator.
- Theming improvements to increase contrast in the overall interface.
- Layout alignment fixes to improve correlations between sections.
- New shortcut (Cmd+F / Ctrl + F) to search within tables, terminals and logs.
- Upgraded bundled Helm CLI.
- Improve logs view for previously terminated containers.
- EKS integration improvements to avoid race conditions when reading configs and listing profiles/clusters.
- New commands to the Command Palette to quickly reveal sections in the navigator.
- New licensing information added to the status bar for users with Personal Licenses.
- Behavioral change to switch to the last active tab when closing open tabs.
Bug fixes
- Improved tab titles for CRDs without connection to clusters.
- MacOS traffic light alignment fixes.
- Standardized all corresponding sections to pull metrics from the same configured source.
- Keyboard shortcuts fixes not triggering in certain occasions (or triggering twice).
- Added reset process when encrypted stores break due to machine credentials changes.
- 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.
- Fixed the theming of all modal windows and dialogs for the dark theme.
- Fixed a navigation issue in the notification to assign allowed namespaces.
- Fixed bug not allowing to toggle between metrics in the Cluster Overview page.
- Addressed fatal error about missing tab data breaking the application.
- Fixed navigator not triggering new cluster connections after obtaining one error.
- Fixed cluster connection loss when reloading Lens by using CMD+R.
- Optimized loading speed in Space Settings page.
Linux users:
For users wanting to try this new release on Linux, we are still experiencing some issues publishing binaries to the SnapStore (to be resolved very soon). Until those issues are fully addressed, you can download the binaries from the links below:
Debian-based: Lens-2024.11.131815-latest.amd64.deb
Portable: Lens-2024.11.131815-latest.x86_64.AppImage
RPM-based: Lens-2024.11.131815-latest.x86_64.rpm