KDash Files

KDash 2.0 turns the dashboard from read-only into a tool you can act with. You can now manage resources, port-forward, and edit manifests without leaving the TUI, alongside a refreshed UI and faster rendering.

Added

• NEW: Resource management actions. KDash can now act on resources, not just observe them:
• Delete any resource (Ctrl-d)
• Edit any resource in your $EDITOR (e); KDash suspends the UI while the editor is open and applies the result on save
• Scale Deployments/StatefulSets/ReplicaSets/ReplicationControllers to a replica count via an inline input
• Rollout restart Deployments/StatefulSets/DaemonSets (r)
• View previous (restarted) container logs (p)
• Cordon/uncordon nodes and suspend/resume/trigger CronJobs
• NEW: Port-forward a Pod or Service with f, then list and stop active forwards with Shift+F. Forwards run as tracked background processes and are stopped when you quit KDash.
• NEW: Action menu (m) lists every available action for the selected resource; the most-used actions also have dedicated hotkeys surfaced as hints.
• NEW: More built-in themes and runtime theme cycling. Switch themes on the fly with t (next) and Alt+t (previous) across Macchiato, Latte, Gruvbox Dark, Solarized Dark, and Mono, plus an optional custom theme.
• Log view options to toggle timestamps (t) and line wrap (w) while viewing container logs.
• Cycle the main views in reverse with Shift+Tab, reset the view-switch history with Ctrl+H, and jump to the start/end of tables and text views with Home/End.
• Impactful actions are guarded by a confirmation prompt before any change is applied.

Changed

• Refreshed the UI across hints, headers, help, notifications, and gauges for a cleaner, more consistent look.
• Help page now lays out keybindings in two balanced columns.
• Utilization view adds a cluster summary pane.
• Context info panel shows more detail, and the view-switch history is collapsed by default to reduce noise.
• Scrolling is unified across views with smoother behavior. Thanks to @tstenner for the contribution! #530
• Enabled the ratatui layout cache for faster redraws. Thanks to @tstenner for the contribution! #531
• Updated kubectl-view-allocations to 3.0.1 and ratatui to 0.30.1, plus chrono, serde_json, log, clap, strum, and human-panic bumps.

New Contributors

• @tstenner made their first contribution in https://github.com/kdash-rs/kdash/pull/531

Full Changelog: https://github.com/kdash-rs/kdash/compare/v1.1.2...v2.0.0