The new Stable release of Lens Desktop is here - featuring MCP server support, Prism AI improvements including a new terminal skill, an enhanced onboarding experience, and numerous bug fixes.
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 try it out, you can download this version manually at our website.
Enhancements
- MCP Server: Lens Desktop now exposes an MCP server for AI tool integration, with a toggle in preferences
- MCP Kubernetes Tools: Added MCP tools for cluster management and kubectl execution
- MCP Prometheus Tools: Added MCP tools for Prometheus metrics, alerts, and label values
- Prism AI - Terminal Skill: Introduced terminal skill for AI-driven CLI-command execution with environment variable support
- Prism AI - Anthropic Provider: Added Anthropic as a BYOK AI provider for API-key based usage
- Prism AI - Multiple Configurations: Support for managing multiple AI provider configurations from the Integrations page
- Prism AI - Choose Provider/Model from Chat: AI provider and model can now be selected directly from the Prism chat, grouped by provider
- Prism AI - Cloud Context: AI terminal skill now receives cloud provider context for EKS and AKS clusters, including credential bridging
- Prism AI - Moved Toggle: Prism AI toggle moved to app preferences page
- Integrations preferences: Integrations to cloud providers and AI providers can now be configured from a central preferences page
- Onboarding Wizard: Added new onboarding steps for AI & Intelligence integrations, cloud environments, and local kubeconfigs
- AKS - Resource Group Renaming: Azure AKS resource groups can now be renamed
- AKS - Sign-in Methods: Added sign-in method selection and environment selection modals, including custom authority host support
- Remove Cluster from Kubeconfig: Added hotbar context menu option to remove cluster from kubeconfig
- Bundled Helm Update: Updated bundled Helm to the latest 3.x release
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Helm Charts view not showing charts hosted on Sonatype Nexus (index.yaml parsing too strict)
- Fixed Helm chart loading for charts missing
apiVersion - Fixed Helm chart validation to be more lenient for
createdand maintainer email metadata - Fixed selection behavior in Kubernetes resource tables so selection is no longer shared between table instances
- Fixed HelmCharts page not showing loading animation
- Fixed Prism not displaying full kubectl command
- Scroll position is now preserved when switching between resource list views
- Fixed “View Helm Release” button not opening Helm Releases tab
- Fixed text selection bleeding outside terminal bounds
- Fixed Cmd+R reload freezing app when startup has failed
- Fixed dock tab icons being monochrome white instead of cluster-colored
- Fixed AKS cluster connection failing and resources not viewable when using private clusters
- Fixed incomplete Azure AKS login periodically opening login tab in browser
- Fixed newly added AWS EKS profile not showing automatically in AssumeRole
- Fixed Pod list showing CPU values “0.000” for running pods
- Fixed logs manually selected section shifting out of view after a few seconds
- Fixed Azure AKS client secret not being masked in the add organization flow
- Fixed navigator drill-into icon not being vertically centered
- Fixed deprecated
--host-rulesChromium flag replaced with--host-resolver-rules - Improved table rendering performance