github iongion/container-desktop 5.2.16

7 hours ago

Changelog

A large internal modernization of how the app talks to engines and manages state, plus user-facing list improvements.

Added

  • Sortable columns across every resource list.
  • Live, event-driven lists: containers, images, pods, volumes and networks now update as the engine reports changes, with automatic reconnect and a polling fallback when events aren't available.
  • Folder-style grouping for containers (groups first, cleaner names).

Changed

  • Re-architected the Podman/Docker runtime into small composable pieces (transport/dialect/profile) behind a single symmetric engine facade, so both engines share one consistent surface and connection/relay logic is no longer duplicated.
  • Replaced the monolithic API client with typed per-resource adapters and per-engine normalizers.
  • Overhauled state management: dropped Easy-Peasy and the hand-rolled refresh poller; live lists now come from event-backed stores while detail and mutation flows use TanStack Query re-entering a screen is instant from cache.
  • Migrated routing from Wouter to TanStack Router.
  • New libraries adopted: TanStack Query (request/mutation support), Zustand (app, UI and resource state), TanStack Router (routing), and Vitest (unit tests).
  • Simplified packaging: Linux now ships only tar.gz (x64 and arm64); dropped AppImage, flatpak, rpm, deb and pacman. macOS is Apple Silicon (arm64) only; dropped Intel.

Fixed

  • Linux terminal launch no longer hangs.
  • More honest connection handling: failed SSH connections are reported as failures, podman-machine startup no longer falsely reports success and lists no longer briefly flash another connection's data.

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