v1.0.0

Released: May 5, 2026

Kunobi 1.0 — Generally Available

After 34 betas across roughly seven months of public testing, Kunobi is now generally available.

This release ships the same code as v0.1.0-beta.34, promoted to stable after one final round of soak time. There are no new features in 1.0 itself — the milestone is the commitment. From this point on, Kunobi follows semantic versioning: breaking changes are reserved for major releases, and the stable channel is the recommended track for everyday use.

If you're already on the latest beta, this update is effectively a no-op. New users land directly on stable.

What Got Us to 1.0

A short tour of the work that shipped during the beta cycle, grouped by theme. Every item below was already released in a prior beta — the per-version notes have the details.

A Real Kubernetes Workbench

45+ resource kinds with dedicated columns — Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Helm/Flux/ArgoCD CRs, and more, each with type-aware fields, a column visibility picker (Mod+Shift+D), and persistent preferences
Resource actions — rollout restart, suspend/resume, drain node, rollback deployment, trigger job — without leaving the app
Bulk operations via ActionBar — select multiple resources, then delete, cordon, scale, port-forward, sync, or reconcile in one go
Multi-kind FilterBar — stack up to 6 resource kinds in a single view, with field, regex, and exact-match filters that traverse nested arrays
ConfigMap and Secret editors — list-and-detail editing with side-by-side diff confirmation and value masking for Secrets

GitOps and Helm First-Class

Flux, ArgoCD, and Helm integrations with flow views, sync and reconcile actions, and "Show App" reverse navigation from any managed resource back to its owning release
Helm revision history with diff — inspect effective values (chart defaults deep-merged with overrides), compare any two revisions, view generated manifests
Git history tab — clone the GitOps repo and browse its commit history alongside live cluster state

Workspaces, Tabs, and Presets

Workspaces as a first-class concept — General, Advanced, GitOps, plus user-defined sets that remember filterbar state and column visibility, pinnable to the strip bar
Browser-style tabs with per-tab isolated state — drag-and-drop reordering, duplicate, close-others, and right-click management
Filter presets — save any filter combination and restore it in one click; works for both K8s drilldowns and the Sources page

Built-in AI and the MCP Server

Integrated AI chat panel that can inspect stores, fetch logs, and describe resources via Kunobi's own tools
MCP server exposing app, store, k8s, state, mock, and app_events to external AI assistants — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini
Universal installer — npx @kunobi/mcp install configures every detected client at once

Integrated Terminal and Log Viewers

GPU-accelerated terminal with proper TUI rendering, batched output, copy/paste, and auto-reconnect for pod and node shells
Virtual log file viewer with vim-style navigation (j/k, g/G), follow mode, full-text search, regex filtering, and ANSI stripping
Structured JSON log filtering — autocomplete on field names, five operators (equals, not-equals, regex, greater-than, less-than), and automatic level badges

Keyboard-First Everywhere

Fully customizable keybindings with conflict detection, platform-aware modifier display, and a sortable virtualized editor
Keyboard navigation for every major surface — tables, sidebars, settings, modals, command palette, drilldowns
Drilldown breadcrumbs with clickable segments and a one-click exit, replacing the need to retrace your path

Cross-Platform Desktop

macOS, Windows, and Linux with native package manager distribution: Homebrew, winget, APT, mise, and aqua
Officially code-signed on every platform — Apple-notarized on macOS, Authenticode-signed on Windows (no SmartScreen warnings), and PGP-signed on Linux
System tray, custom titlebar, and multi-window support for multi-cluster, multi-monitor workflows

Connection Resilience

Happy Eyeballs (RFC 8305) for fast IPv6/IPv4 racing on dual-stack and VPN setups
macOS App Nap and hibernation recovery — connection state survives system power management
Auto-reconnect for cluster, log, and shell sessions, with a configurable retry budget
Smarter RBAC handling that doesn't hide resources on EKS or webhook-authorized clusters when the cluster reports incomplete rule data

Onboarding and Tools

Guided onboarding wizard — theme, telemetry, EULA, and an optional devtools install step
DevTools health badge — Kind, kubectl, and Helm are detected with one-click install or upgrade, refreshed every 15 minutes
"Try Kunobi" local clusters with optional Flux or ArgoCD bootstrapping and demo apps for hands-on GitOps exploration

What's on the Way

Extensions Marketplace — the catalog and lifecycle UI shipped as a preview during the beta cycle. Installation and updates from the marketplace open up next.
Premium plans — the License page and titlebar deadline indicator are live in groundwork form. Paid tiers arrive in a follow-up release.

A Note on the Latest Beta

If you're upgrading from v0.1.0-beta.34, the Linux PGP key rotation and the Community Edition concurrent-cluster limit (3) introduced in that release also apply here. See the beta.34 notes if you missed them.

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