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!!

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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|WR

Additionally, 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)

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