Releases: derailed/k9s
v0.40.9
Release v0.40.9
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
Maintenance Release!
- Refactored plugins implementation, hopefully we didn't hose them 😳
- Updated plugins docs
- Apparently when it comes to icons, I've chosen... poorly 🙀
Updatedwriteicon 🔓->✍️, hopefully for the better 👀??
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
- #3202 0.40.8 breaks plugins loading
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v0.40.8
Release v0.40.8
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
Maintenance Release!
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
- #3193 Feature Request: View aliases with custom columns
- #3192 Allow readonly indicator respect the noIcons configuration
- #3153 Add support for bunyan logging
Contributed PRs
Please be sure to give Big Thanks! and ATTA Girls/Boys! to all the fine contributors for making K9s better for all of us!!
- #3186 fix: allow absolute paths for the 'dir' command
- #3152 Feat: Add plugin support for parsing logs with bunyan cli #3153
© 2025 Imhotep Software LLC. All materials licensed under Apache v2.0
v0.40.7
Release v0.40.7
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
Maintenance Release!
🙀 Hoy! Hosed custom view loading in v0.40.6...
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
Contributed PRs
Please be sure to give Big Thanks! and ATTA Girls/Boys! to all the fine contributors for making K9s better for all of us!!
- #3186 fix: allow absolute paths for the 'dir' command
© 2025 Imhotep Software LLC. All materials licensed under Apache v2.0
v0.40.6
Release v0.40.6
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
Maintenance Release!
Breaking change
Moved portForwardAddress out of clusterXXX/contextYYY/config.yaml and into the main K9s config file.
This is a global preference based on your setup vs a cluster/context specific attribute.
K9s will nag you in the logs if a specific context config still contains this attribute but should not prevent the configuration load.
Column Blow Reloaded!
We've added another property to the custom view. You can now also specify namespace specific column definition for a given resource.
For instance, view pods in any namespace using one configuration and view pods in fred namespace using an alternate configuration.
# views.yaml
views:
# Using this for all pods...
v1/pods:
columns:
- AGE
- NAMESPACE|WR # => 🌚 Specifies the NAMESPACE column to be right aligned and only visible while in wide mode
- ZORG:.metadata.labels.fred\.io\.kubernetes\.blee # => 🌚 extract fred.io.kubernetes.blee label into it's own column
- BLEE:.metadata.annotations.blee|R # => 🌚 extract annotation blee into it's own column and right align it
- NAME
- IP
- NODE
- STATUS
- READY
- MEM/RL|S # => 🌚 Overrides std resource default wide attribute via `S` for `Show`
- '%MEM/R|' # => NOTE! column names with non alpha names need to be quoted as columns must be strings!
# Use this instead for pods in namespace `fred`
v1/pods@fred: # => 🌚 New v0.40.6! Customize columns for a given resource and namespace!
columns:
- AGE
- NAMESPACE|WRAdditionally, we've added a new column attribute aka Show -> S. This allows you to now override the default resource column wide attribute when set.
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
- #3179 Resource name with full api or group displayed (somewhere and sometimes)
- #3178 Cronjobs with the same name in different namespaces appear together
- #3176 Trigger all marked cronjobs
- #3162 Context configs: context directory created under wrong cluster after context switch
- #3161 Force wide-only columns to appear outside of wide view
- #3147 Prompt style is overriden by body
- #3139 CPU/R:L and MEM/R:L columns invalid in views.yaml
- #3138 Subresources are not shown correctly in the RBAC view
Contributed PRs
Please be sure to give Big Thanks! and ATTA Girls/Boys! to all the fine contributors for making K9s better for all of us!!
- #3182 fix: Use the latest version when downloading the Ubuntu deb file
- #3168 fix(history): handle cases where special commands add their command their command to the history
- #3159 Added hard contrast gruvbox skins
- #3149 fix: Pass grv on gotoResource as a String to fix non-default apiGroup list
- #3149 Add externalsecrets plugin
- #3140 fix: Avoid false positive matches in enableRegion (#3093)
© 2025 Imhotep Software LLC. All materials licensed under Apache v2.0
v0.40.5
Release v0.40.5
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
Maintenance Release!
😳 Aye! Continued Buzz kill on the 0.40.0 aftermath 🙀 👻
Likely additional disturbance in the farce might be observed.
Thank you all for giving this drop a rinse and reporting back!! 😍
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
- #3131 Singular versions of native Kubernetes resource names no longer work
- #3119 Custom Views Fail to Load with % in Column Names (with feelings!)
Contributed PRs
Please be sure to give Big Thanks! and ATTA Girls/Boys! to all the fine contributors for making K9s better for all of us!!
- #3123 update regex to allow '%' and '/' in column names
© 2024 Imhotep Software LLC. All materials licensed under Apache v2.0
v0.40.4
Release v0.40.4
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
Maintenance Release!
😳 Aye! Continued Buzz kill on the 0.40.0 aftermath 🙀 👻
Likely additional disturbance in the farce might be observed.
Thank you all for giving this drop a rinse and reporting back!! 😍
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
- #3122 Viewing events is no longer sorted by LAST SEEN
- #3120 Custom View Column Mismatch in K9s: Shuffled Values in Pods View
- #3119 Custom Views Fail to Load with % in Column Names
- #3118 selecting an alias, the wrong resources are being shown
Contributed PRs
Please be sure to give Big Thanks! and ATTA Girls/Boys! to all the fine contributors for making K9s better for all of us!!
- #3123 update regex to allow '%' and '/' in column names
© 2024 Imhotep Software LLC. All materials licensed under Apache v2.0
v0.40.3
Release v0.40.3
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
Maintenance Release!
😳 Aye! Buzz kill on the 0.40.0 aftermath ;( Hot fix in progress...🙀 👻
Likely additional disturbance in the farce might be observed.
Thank you all for giving this drop a rinse and reporting back!! 😍
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
- #3116 Cannot list custom CRD's since v0.40.1 (with feelings!)
© 2024 Imhotep Software LLC. All materials licensed under Apache v2.0
v0.40.2
Release v0.40.2
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
Maintenance Release!
😳 Aye! Buzz kill on the 0.40.0 aftermath ;( Hot fix in progress...🙀 👻
Likely additional disturbance in the farce might be observed.
Thank you all for giving this drop a rinse and reporting back!! 😍
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
- #3116 Cannot list custom CRD's since v0.40.1
© 2024 Imhotep Software LLC. All materials licensed under Apache v2.0
v0.40.1
Release v0.40.1
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
Maintenance Release!
😳 Aye! Buzz kill on the 0.40.0 aftermath... 🙀 👻
Likely additional disturbance in the farce might be observed.
Thank you all for giving v0.40.0 a rinse and reporting back!! 😍
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 -Column Blow- Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
- #3113 0.40.0 can't retain temporary view sort
- #3111 k9s can't describe or print YAML for HPAs in all namespaces view
- #2966 Go to the Contexts page and filter, contexts that are matched will be filtered ou
- #2962 Small colour/filtering related bug
- #2961 Drain node with the -disable-eviction
- #2958 Restart count in container view associated with the wrong container
- #2945 Could we add ServiceAccount Column in v1/POD view
Contributed PRs
Please be sure to give Big Thanks! and ATTA Girls/Boys! to all the fine contributors for making K9s better for all of us!!
- #3094 Log in as root to the node.
- #3033 Skip cache invalidation on failed connection
- #2965 Make menu foreground style configurable through skins
- #2952 A modest attempt to improve the logo aesthetics
- #2833 allow scaling custom resource
- #2799 feat(app): add history navigation with [ and ], most recent command with -
- #2719 fix: stop table header cells from being selectable
- #2865 Feature/DisableAutoscroll
© 2024 Imhotep Software LLC. All materials licensed under Apache v2.0
v0.40.0
Release v0.40.0
Notes
Thank you to all that contributed with flushing out issues and enhancements for K9s!
I'll try to mark some of these issues as fixed. But if you don't mind grab the latest rev
and see if we're happier with some of the fixes!
If you've filed an issue please help me verify and close.
Your support, kindness and awesome suggestions to make K9s better are, as ever, very much noted and appreciated!
Also big thanks to all that have allocated their own time to help others on both slack and on this repo!!
As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer
On Slack? Please join us K9slackers
♫ Sounds Behind The Release ♭
- Glory Box - Portishead
- Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury And The BlockHeads
- Cupidon s'en fout! - George Brassens
- Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
- Low Sun - Hermanos Gutierrez
A Word From Our Sponsors...
To all the good folks below that opted to pay it forward and join our sponsorship program, I salute you!!
- Panfactum
- Bastian Pätzold
- Mikita Vazhnik
- Jacob Salway
- Eckard Mühlich
- Luke
- tomasbanet
- Robin Opletal
- Euroblaze
- Jack Daniels
- decafcode
- Guillaume Copin
- Lokalise
- Gustavo Bini
- JMSwag
- Daniel Gospodinow
- Klaviyo
- Paul Farver
Sponsorship cancellations since the last release: 12! 🥹
🎉 Feature Release code name: Colon Blow! 🎈
We are pretty stocked about this drop (hopefully...) as we've fully enabled custom columns support in K9s!
Historically, one could customize the view for a given resource by adding a definition in views.yaml.
From there one could change sort order and re-arrange the standard column layout.
Several folks voiced the need to add a column for a given label/annotation or any other fields available on a resource.
To date, this wasn't possible 😳
So... without further ado, let see what we can now do with Custom Views ding dang deal!
It all starts with a few new directives available in views.yaml
A Refresher...
Customize a pod view and ensure age, ns and name appear first and sort by age descending.
NOTE! You no longer need to list out all columns.
The remaining columns will be automatically filled from the standard columns.
# Usual biz...
views:
v1/pods: # specify the gvr you want to customize aka group/version/resource
sortColumn: AGE:desc # set the default ordering to ascending (asc) or descending (desc)
columns: # tell the view which columns to display and in which order
- AGE # ensure age, ns and name are the first 3 cols and backfill the rest
- NAMESPACE
- NAME
- READY|H # => NEW! Do not display the READY column
- NODE|W # => NEW! Show node column only on wide
- IP|WR # => NEW! Pull the ip column and right align it in wide mode onlyColon Blow!
Say your pods comes standard with a label blee and you want to show it while in pod view.
# Pull labels/annotations
views:
v3/freds:
sortColumn: NAMESPACE:dsc
columns:
- NAMESPACE
- NAME
- BLEE:.metadata.labels.blee # => NEW! Pull values from a label or an annotation using json parser
# expression similar mechanic as kubectl -o custom-columns
- ZORG:.spec.zips[?(@.type == 'zorg')].ip|WR # => NEW! Same deal with a json exp + but align right and show wide onlyTLDR...
As you can see the CustomView feature adds a few new semantics on this drop.
You can now use the following shape for columns definition COL_NAME<:json_parse_expression><|column attributes>
The :json_parse_expression is optional.
The column attributes are as follows:
T-> time column indicatorN-> number column indicatorW-> turns on wide column aka only shows while in wide mode. Defaults to the standard resource definition when present.H-> Hides the columnL-> Left align (default)R-> Right align
When certain columns are not present in the custom view, K9s will pull the standard column definition and merge the columns.
This allows user to specify and order which columns they want to see first without having to define every single columns from the default resource representation. If you do not wish to see all these columns you can add them to your custom view definition and either specify |W or |H to wide it or hide it.
📢 Still work in progress so your mileage may vary!
This feature will likely need additional TLC.
Your feedback on this will be much appreciated and we will iterate as usual to ensure it vorks as prescribed... 🙀
Videos Are In The Can!
Please dial K9s Channel for up coming content...
- K9s v0.40.0 Colon Blow Sneak peek
- K9s v0.31.0 Configs+Sneak peek
- K9s v0.30.0 Sneak peek
- Vulnerability Scans
Resolved Issues
- #3064 Question: brew formula k9s vs derailed/k9s/k9s
- #3061 k9s not opening active namespace or namespace specified via -n
- #3044 CRDs are loaded incorrectly into metadata registry, cause sporadic "Jump Owner" issues
- #2995 Latest image on quay.io contains "failed" kubectl binary
Contributed PRs
Please be sure to give Big Thanks! and ATTA Girls/Boys! to all the fine contributors for making K9s better for all of us!!
- #3065 Fixed trimming of favorite namespaces in Config
- #3063 Updating CVE dependencies
- #3062 feat: use kubectl events for plugin watch-events
- #3060 Rename "delete local data" checkbox description in drain dialog
- #3046 Strict unmarshal for plugin files
- #3045 fix: CRD loading: trim group suffix from CRD name
- #3043 Fix K9S_EDITOR
- #3041 Fix Flux trace plugin command
- #3038 fix check e != nil but return a nil value error err
- #3026 Fix typos
- #3018 fix: coloring of rose-pine for values of log options
- #3017 feat: add helm diff plugin
- #3009 fix(argo-rollouts plugin): resolve improper piping in watch command
- #2996 Bump version of netshoot image in debug-container plugin
- #2994 fix kubectl url and fail build on download errors
- #2986 plugin/trace-dns: Trace DNS requests using Inspektor Gadget
- #2985 feat(plugins/crossplane): change to crossplane cli & add crossplane-watch
- #2986 plugin/trace-dns: Trace DNS requests using Inspektor Gadget
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