Release Notes

Welcome to Kui 10! This release includes the following major improvements.

Kui is now much faster

• Most kubectl operations are now 2-3 times faster. Kui, in many cases, is now faster than using kubectl #6441. This includes both table queries and drilldown queries. For example, showing the details of a pod now takes under 100ms.
• kubectl watch tables are now substantially more responsively; previously, Kui would poll for changes, while now it responds immediately to changes in the backend.
• Kui now launches more quickly.
• For Kui developers, the initial install and webpack launch times are now as much as 10x faster!

Support for heterogeneous kubectl get and apply

• When getting or applying changes to a directory of heterogenous resource types, Kui now presents a unified and live table. kubectl on its own does not handle watching a directory of resources that contains e.g. both Deployments and Secrets and ConfgMaps, and any other custom resources. Kui now shows a live view across all of these.
• For kustomize use cases, Kui now also shows the source for the kustomization.yaml in the get -k and apply -k output.

Improved Terminal Split Experience

• ctrl/cmd+Y is now a keyboard shortcut for splitting the terminal.
• You may now have as many as 8 splits in your terminal.
• Tables presented in "mini" splits are now packed more densely.

Miscellaneous Experience Improvements

• Substantial improvements to kubectl events tables.
• Live tables now indicate the "Last Updated" time for the data.
• Clicking on a table row now automatically splits the terminal to show you the drilldown in parallel with the main table.
• The sidecar view now presents drilldown buttons, such as "Show Events" in a more distinct region of the UI.
• Tab completion is now more responsive and substantially less buggy.
• While editing commentary, shift-enter or cmd/ctrl+S are shortcuts to save your changes

New UI Components

Kui now uses PatternFly components instead of Carbon.