v1.6.1

Bugfixing release that address the problem on Windows with opening the terminal.

• Removed security patch that broke application on Windows (#1228, #1232)

Notes from v1.6.0:

Ready for Kubernetes v1.34. New improvements and bug fixes.

• Views for (cluster) role bindings show more details and hyperlinks to (cluster) roles and service accounts. (#1125)
• Added HTTPS support and custom prefix in Prometheus settings. (#1131)
• Pods and other resources can be force deleted or force finalized. (#1147)
• Pods and Deployments lists have some additional columns that are hidden by default. (#1136)
  • New column with pod IP address (hidden by default).
  • New (old) column with number of deployment replicas in N/N format (hidden by default).
  • Columns with node and QoS are now hidden by default.
  • More hyperlinks in the details.
• Node list shows Ready/NotReady condition and has a column if the node is schedulable. (#1196, #1207)
• CronJob and Job have a field "Resumed" rather than "Suspend". (#1141)
• Items to the list of allowed namespaces or groups and roles to the bindings can be added from a single comma-separated string. (#1144)
• Only the first load balancer and the rule of the ingress are shown in the list and more in the tooltip. (#1146, #1217)
• Better compatibility with VictoriaMetrics. (#1111, #1202)
• Paste action works for the search box in the editor, too. (#1216)
• More assertions to prevent crashes. (#1145, #1201)
• Fixed CVE-2025-7783, CVE-2025-54798, CVE-2025-5889 in dependencies. (#1209, #1210, #1211, #1213)
• Updated Electron 35.7.5
• Updated Helm 3.19.0
• Updated kubectl 1.34.1
• 55 other dependencies have been updated in total.

v1.6.0

Ready for Kubernetes v1.34. New improvements and bug fixes.

• Views for (cluster) role bindings show more details and hyperlinks to (cluster) roles and service accounts. (#1125)
• Added HTTPS support and custom prefix in Prometheus settings. (#1131)
• Pods and other resources can be force deleted or force finalized. (#1147)
• Pods and Deployments lists have some additional columns that are hidden by default. (#1136)
  • New column with pod IP address (hidden by default).
  • New (old) column with number of deployment replicas in N/N format (hidden by default).
  • Columns with node and QoS are now hidden by default.
  • More hyperlinks in the details.
• Node list shows Ready/NotReady condition and has a column if the node is schedulable. (#1196, #1207)
• CronJob and Job have a field "Resumed" rather than "Suspend". (#1141)
• Items to the list of allowed namespaces or groups and roles to the bindings can be added from a single comma-separated string. (#1144)
• Only the first load balancer and the rule of the ingress are shown in the list and more in the tooltip. (#1146, #1217)
• Better compatibility with VictoriaMetrics. (#1111, #1202)
• Paste action works for the search box in the editor, too. (#1216)
• More assertions to prevent crashes. (#1145, #1201)
• Fixed CVE-2025-7783, CVE-2025-54798, CVE-2025-5889 in dependencies. (#1209, #1210, #1211, #1213)
• Updated Electron to 35.7.5
• Updated Helm to 3.19.0
• Updated kubectl to 1.34.1
• Updated freelens-k8s-proxy to 1.4.0
• 55 other dependencies have been updated in total.

Warning!

After the release v1.6.0, we found the issue on Windows that the terminal window cannot be opened (#1228). This issue will be fixed in the next v1.6.1 release.

v1.5.3

The maintenance release with some improvements and bug fixes:

• The timestamps with duration are presented in Cronjob, Event, Job, and Pod details (#1066)
• The timestamp is shown in the object details when the object is deleted (#1074)
• Consistent presentation of Kubernetes object conditions (#1077)
• All available resources are shown for the nodes (#1098)
• Events are ordered (#1095)
• CRDs views show short names list (#1088)
• Application should not crash if pod metrics do not have information about containers (#1068, #1073)
• API: DurationAbsoluteTimestamp is exported (#1066)
• API: DrawerItem component has name optional (#1070)
• Updated Electron 35.7.4 with Chrome 134.0.6998.205 and Node 22.16.0
• Updated Helm 3.18.5
• Updated kubectl 1.33.4
• 39 dependencies updated in total

v1.5.2

What's Changed

• Updates dependency compression to ^v1.8.1 that uses on-headers with fix for CVE-2025-7339 (#1023)
• Fixes incorrect presentation of the restarted containers in Pods list and details view (#1016, #1018)
• Restarted containers should be shown as running again (#1015)
• More types are exported in Extensions API (#1019)

Full Changelog: v1.5.1...v1.5.2

Discussion: https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens/discussions/1024

v1.5.1

What's Changed

• Fixed regression in Extensions API (#997)
• Restarted containers are shown as green square and with a yellow border rather than grey (#1004)
• Freelens can fetch metrics from Mimir (#1002)
• Electron 35.7.2
• kubectl 1.33.3
• freelens-k8s-proxy 1.3.6 for Kubernetes 1.33.3

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.5.1

Discussion: https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens/discussions/1009

v1.5.0

What's Changed

• Ephemeral containers are presented in Pods views and menus (#958, #966)
• Nodes list shows metrics from metrics-server if Prometheus is not available (#986)
• Better presentation for boolean values (#953, #956)
• New format of port details for Pods and Services (#982)
• More details are presented for Services (#983, #989)
• Removed Kubernetes API batch/v1beta1 (#972)
• Extension API has all utilities exported in Common.Util and all stores and APIs exported in Renderer.K8sApi (#950)
• Extension API has a new class LensExtensionKubeObject that simplifies new classes for CRDs (#991)
• Electron: 35.7.0 with Chrome: 134.0.6998.205 and Node: 22.16.0
• Helm v3.18.4
• 16 dependencies updated in total

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

Discussion: https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens/discussions/935

v1.4.0

Minor improvements in UI. More components and other changes in the Extensions API.

What's Changed

• New APIs are exported, then extensions can use ie, an event list with filtering for chosen resources. See #841, #858, #859
• A New view for endpoint slices is added to the Network menu. See #846
• React JSX runtime is exported in the API so extensions can use it instead of the plain React.createElement. See #902
• All views have tooltips for items that can be too long to present in the tables. See #882
• Redesigned view for Jobs that presents all properties from Batch/v1 API. Jobs can be suspended/resumed. See #882
• Schedules for CronJobs are presented in human-readable form. See #882
• Column with number of pods in Deployments and DaemonSets is split to separate columns.
• Column with labels in Secrets list is removed.
• IngressClass is not namespaced, and the link to parameters is clickable. See #894, #917
• "About Freelens" checks if a newer version is available. See #898
• HTTP proxy from the settings is used to download kubectl matching the cluster version. See #909
• YAML editor handles "yes" and "no" strings correctly. See #881, #886
• Events from all namespaces are shown in the cluster overview. See #856, #880
• State files used by pnpm are moved to the application directory. See #920
• Allow installing extensions on Windows arm64. See #924
• Validate extensions before installing them. See #924
• Project uses Biome 2.0 with organized imports. See #869, #874
• Electron 35.6.0 with Chrome: 134.0.6998.205 and Node 22.15.1
• Helm 3.18.3
• kubectl 1.33.2
• freelens-k8s-proxy 1.3.4 (Update kubernetes packages to v0.33.2)

Full Changelog: v1.3.2...v1.4.0

Discussion: https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens/discussions/857

v1.3.2

What's Changed

• Provided KubeObjectAge and MarkdownViewer in Extensions API.
• Proxy is restarted if the port number is not found.
• The terminal is not auto-closed after the process exits.
• YAML dump has consistent formatting.
• Electron v35.5.1 with Chrome 134.0.6998.205 and Node 22.15.1 with fixes for CVE-2025-5419, CVE-2025-4609 and CVE-2025-4664.
• kubectl v1.33.1 (same as previous).
• helm v3.18.2.
• freelens-k8s-proxy v1.3.3 compiled with Go v1.24.4.
• 24 dependencies updated in total.

Full Changelog: v1.3.1...v1.3.2

Discussion: https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens/discussions/799

v1.3.1

What's Changed

• Added CPU and Memory usage metric column for pods view.
• Confirmation of namespace deletion.
• Correct tray icon on macOS.
• No default Helm repository for new config.
• Terminal is closed with delay of 15s even if command finished with success.
• Editor sorts keys and skips managedFields.
• Listen address can be set for port-forward command.
• List of the Helm repos is refreshed from hub.helm.sh.
• Shell name handling supports case-insensitivity and ".exe" suffix removal.
• Icon property is optional in extensions.
• Types for extensions are tweaked to avoid unnecessary casting to any.
• Electron 35.4.0 with Chrome 134.0.6998.205 and Node 22.15.0.
• kubectl v1.33.1.
• helm v3.18.0.
• freelens-k8s-proxy v1.3.2.
• 56 dependencies updated in total.

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.3.1

Discussion: https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens/discussions/772

v1.3.0

What's Changed

• Updated dependency @kubernetes/client-node to 1.2.0 which fully supports Kubernetes 1.33.
• Correct depedencies for Freelens extensions that fixes problems with building extensions.
• All dependencies are checked with https://knip.dev tool now.
• Modified light theme for primary and sub menu active state colors.
• New extension @freelensapp/extension-example is provided for tests and as a template for developers.
• Electron updated to 35.3.0 with Chrome 134.0.6998.205.
• freelens-k8s-proxy updated to v1.3.1 (compiled with Go 1.24.4).
• 29 dependencies updated in total.
• Number of dependencies with known security issues are reduced to zero.
• Windows arm64 version is provided.

Full Changelog: v1.2.1...v1.3.0

Discussion: https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens/discussions/671