Release v0.51.0

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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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by big corporations with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping in your Kubernetes journey, please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

♫ Sounds Behind The Release ♭

• Aprieta - Vincen Garcia
• Graham Chapman - John Cleese
• Kill the pain - SYZGYX

Maintenance Release!

Please help me welcome Ümüt Özalp as a core contributor to K9s!
Ümüt has been instrumental in helping this project grow.
I trust you will help Ümüt triage issues and prs reviews and show him
the kindness and patience all k9sers are famous for!

Sponsorships are dropping at an alarming rate which puts this project in the red.
This is becoming a concern and sad not to mention unsustainable ;(
If you dig k9s and want to help the project, please consider paying it forward! and
don't become just another satisfied, non paying customer!.
K9s does take a lot of my free time to maintain, enhance and keep the light on.
Many cool ideas are making it straight to the freezer as I just can't budget them in.
I know many of you work for big corporations, so please put in the word/work and have
them help us out via sponsorships or other means.

Thank you!

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!!

• #4026 fix(xray): disable edit/delete actions in XRay view when readonly mode is enabled
• #4024 Fix 'J'umping to owner of cluster scoped resources
• #4005 Fix pod status for sidecar init containers
• #4001 Adjust namespace handling for RBAC checks in CanForResource and CanForInstance
• #3997 chore: fix wrong function name in comment
• #3993 fix(browser): show syncing status instead of spurious no-resources warning
• #3989 perf: skip reconcile cycle when informer data is unchanged
• #3988 perf: raise default client QPS from 5 to 50
• #3987 fix: paginate metrics API calls to prevent timeout on large clusters
• #3986 perf: batch Hydrate workers to eliminate per-item goroutine overhead
• #3917 Respect wide columns in default view
• #3911 fix: reset styles before loading skin on context switch
• #3908 fix: populate pod count in Node.Get() for single-node view
• #3902 Add OSC52 clipboard backend with native fallback
• #3888 feat: add One Light skin
• #3879 feat: allow users to cycle pulse grid selection forwards and backwards
• #3873 feat: enhance pvc-shell configuration with dynamic inputs and RWO support
• #3872 Add default confirm:true for plugins with inputs
• #3871 internal/render: prevent index out of range panic in initContainerStats
• #3865 Handle blank PVC capacities for the purpose of sorting
• #3854 feat: enhance debug container configuration with input fields
• #3851 Use *grey instead of grey in black-and-wtf.yaml
• #3839 fix: optimize context switching to reduce redundant API calls
• #3823 feat: add resize PVC plugin for dynamic storage resizing
• #3821 feat: add support for plugin input fields
• #3817 Fix Readme: Ubuntu installation command not working
• #3798 Fix boom on Jumping Owner in rare cases
• #3797 feat: add extra hints for column navigation in table view
• #3792 fix: adjust resource access checks for namespace resources
• #3783 fix: avoid logging errors when no context is configured
• #3780 feat: add selected color to table header
• #3736 feat: add custom resource jump support
• #3634 Add shell detection for Windows NanoServer containers

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Release v0.50.18

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🥳🎉 Happy new year fellow k9ers!🎊🍾 Hoping 2026 will bring good health and great success to you and yours...

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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by big corporations with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping in your Kubernetes journey, please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

♫ Sounds Behind The Release ♭

• A cool new way - Joe Satriani
• Song for you - Ray Charles
• Kill the pain - SYZGYX

Maintenance Release!

Oops! I've missed a PR in the v0.50.17 excitement ;( Dropping v0.50.18 with feelings...

Sponsorships are dropping at an alarming rate which puts this project in the red. This is becoming a concern and sad not to mention unsustainable ;( If you dig k9s and want to help the project, please consider paying it forward! and don't become just another satisfied, non paying customer!. K9s does take a lot of my free time to maintain, enhance and keep the light on. Many cool ideas are making it straight to the freezer as I just can't budget them in.
I know many of you work for big corporations, so please put in the word/work and have them help us out via sponsorships or other means.

Thank you!

A Word From Our Sponsors...

To all the good folks and orgs below that opted to pay it forward and join our sponsorship program, I salute you!!

• Philomena Yeboah
• Kilian
• TVRiddle
• Tom Morelly
• Nikhil Narayen
• Andrew Aadland
• Radek
• Timothée Gerber
• Matthias
• DKB ❤️
• Kraken Tech
• Daniel
• Fred Loucks
• Patricia Mascaros
• Qube Research & Technologies
• Michel Jung
• Ümüt Özalp
• Nathan Papapietro
• Oleksandr Podze
• Lee Jones
• tsahlif
• Jean-Christophe Amiel
• Lightspark
• egs-hub ❤️
• Sergey
• Wynter Inc
• Jen Norris
• Joakim-Byg
• Oleksandr Podze
• Lee Jones

Sponsorship cancellations since the last release: 17! 🥹

Resolved Issues

• #3765 quay.io docker images not up to date but referenced in README.md
• #3762 Copy multiple selected items
• #3751 Improve visual distinction for cordoned nodes in Node view
• #3735 Cannot decode secret if there is no get permissions for all secrets
• #3708 Editing a single Namespace opens the editor with a list of all Namespaces
• #3731 feat: add neat plugin
• #3735 Cannot decode secret if there is no get permissions for all secrets
• #3708 Editing a single Namespace opens the editor with a list of all Namespaces
• #3649 Improved Column Sorting

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!!

• #3763 feat: enable copying multiple resource, namespace names to clipboard
• #3760 fix: Editing a single Namespace opens the editor with a list of all Namespaces
• #3756 feat: Add reconcile plugin for Flux instances
• #3755 fix: panic on 'jump to owner' of reflect.Value.Elem on zero Value
• #3753 feat: add plugins for argo workflows
• #3750 fix: Flux trace plugin shortcut conflict by changing to Shift-Q
• #3749 feat: add dark/light theme inversion using Oklch
• #3739 chore: refine LabelsSelector comment to match function behavior
• #3738 feat: add symlink handle for plugin directory
• #3720 fix(internal/render): ensure object is deep copied before realization in Render method
• #3704 Allow k9s to start without a valid Kubernetes context
• #3699 feat(pulse): map hjkl to navigate as help shows
• #3697 Issue 3667 Fix
• #3696 fix for scale option appearing on non-scalable resources
• #3690 feat: add support for scaling HPA targets
• #3671 fix fails to modify or delete namespaces using RBAC
• #3669 feat: logs column lock
• #3663 Map Q to "Back"
• #3661 refactor: remove unused sorting key bindings from various views
• #3859 fix: update busybox image version to 1.37.0 in configuration files
• #3650 Sort all columns
• #3458 Document how to install on Fedora

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Release v0.50.17

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🥳🎉 Happy new year fellow k9ers!🎊🍾 Hoping 2026 will bring good health and great success to you and yours...

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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by big corporations with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping in your Kubernetes journey, please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

♫ Sounds Behind The Release ♭

• A cool new way - Joe Satriani
• Song for you - Ray Charles
• Kill the pain - SYZGYX

Maintenance Release!

Sponsorships are dropping at an alarming rate which puts this project in the red. This is becoming a concern and sad not to mention unsustainable ;( If you dig k9s and want to help the project, please consider paying it forward! and don't become just another satisfied, non paying customer!. K9s does take a lot of my free time to maintain, enhance and keep the light on. Many cool ideas are making it straight to the freezer as I just can't budget them in.
I know many of you work for big corporations, so please put in the word/work and have them help us out via sponsorships or other means.

Thank you!

A Word From Our Sponsors...

To all the good folks and orgs below that opted to pay it forward and join our sponsorship program, I salute you!!

• Philomena Yeboah
• Kilian
• TVRiddle
• Tom Morelly
• Nikhil Narayen
• Andrew Aadland
• Radek
• Timothée Gerber
• Matthias
• DKB ❤️
• Kraken Tech
• Daniel
• Fred Loucks
• Patricia Mascaros
• Qube Research & Technologies
• Michel Jung
• Ümüt Özalp
• Nathan Papapietro
• Oleksandr Podze
• Lee Jones
• tsahlif
• Jean-Christophe Amiel
• Lightspark
• egs-hub ❤️
• Sergey
• Wynter Inc
• Jen Norris
• Joakim-Byg
• Oleksandr Podze
• Lee Jones

Sponsorship cancellations since the last release: 17! 🥹

Resolved Issues

• #3765 quay.io docker images not up to date but referenced in README.md

• #3762 Copy multiple selected items

• #3751 Improve visual distinction for cordoned nodes in Node view

• #3735 Cannot decode secret if there is no get permissions for all secrets

• #3708 Editing a single Namespace opens the editor with a list of all Namespaces

• #3731 feat: add neat plugin

• #3735 Cannot decode secret if there is no get permissions for all secrets

• #3708 Editing a single Namespace opens the editor with a list of all Namespaces

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!!

• #3763 feat: enable copying multiple resource, namespace names to clipboard
• #3760 fix: Editing a single Namespace opens the editor with a list of all Namespaces
• #3756 feat: Add reconcile plugin for Flux instances
• #3755 fix: panic on 'jump to owner' of reflect.Value.Elem on zero Value
• #3753 feat: add plugins for argo workflows
• #3750 fix: Flux trace plugin shortcut conflict by changing to Shift-Q
• #3749 feat: add dark/light theme inversion using Oklch
• #3739 chore: refine LabelsSelector comment to match function behavior
• #3738 feat: add symlink handle for plugin directory
• #3720 fix(internal/render): ensure object is deep copied before realization in Render method
• #3704 Allow k9s to start without a valid Kubernetes context
• #3699 feat(pulse): map hjkl to navigate as help shows
• #3697 Issue 3667 Fix
• #3696 fix for scale option appearing on non-scalable resources
• #3690 feat: add support for scaling HPA targets
• #3671 fix fails to modify or delete namespaces using RBAC
• #3669 feat: logs column lock
• #3663 Map Q to "Back"
• #3859 fix: update busybox image version to 1.37.0 in configuration files
• #3650 Sort all columns
• #3458 Document how to install on Fedora

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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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by big corporations with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping in your Kubernetes journey, please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

Maintenance Release!

Sponsorships are dropping at an alarming rate which puts this project in the red. This is becoming a concern and sad not to mention unsustainable ;( If you dig k9s and want to help the project, please consider paying it forward! and don't become just another satisfied, non paying customer!. K9s does take a lot of my free time to maintain, enhance and keep the light on. Many cool ideas are making it straight to the freezer as I just can't budget them in.
I know many of you work for big corporations, so please put in the word/work and have them help us out via sponsorships or other means.

Thank you!

Warp Speed Scotty!

As of this drop, we are introducing namespace warp via shortcut w.
This affords to view all resources of that type based on the currently selected resource namespace.
This command is only available on namespaced resources.
For example, if you are in pod view and select pod-xxx in namespace bozo, hitting w will warp
you to view all pods in namespace bozo.

Resolved Issues

• #3629 vulnerability in k9s project
• #3621 Switching to ":Deploy" sends you to deployments from namespace "deploy"
• #3620 Trying to show pod yaml using custom views.yaml crashes k9s
• #3608 k9s crashes when :namespaces used
• #3601 Can't delete namespace
• #3595 Toggle Namespace Filter in Pods View with 'n' Key
• #3576 Custom alias/view not working anymore since v0.50.10

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!!

• #3625 fix: debug-container plugin when KUBECONFIG has multiple files
• #3623 bugfix: fix panic in BenchmarkPodRender by using NewPod() constructor
• #3619 feat: plugin to list all resources by namespace
• #3605 browser: do not prevent redraw when connection unavailable
• #3600 fix(shell): set linux when OS detection fails
• #3588 fix: do not error out of shellIn if OS detection fails

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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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by big corporations with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping in your Kubernetes journey, please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

Maintenance Release!

Sponsorships are dropping at an alarming rate which puts this project in the red. This is becoming a concern and sad not to mention unsustainable ;( If you dig k9s and want to help the project, please consider paying it forward! and don't become just another satisfied, non paying customer!. K9s does take a lot of my free time to maintain, enhance and keep the light on. Many cool ideas are making it straight to the freezer as I just can't budget them in.
I know many of you work for big corporations, so please put in the word/work and have them help us out via sponsorships or other means.

Thank you!

Resolved Issues

• #3591 REVERTED! Accept suggestion with enter (without having to "tab")

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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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by big corporations with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping in your Kubernetes journey, please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

Maintenance Release!

Sponsorships are dropping at an alarming rate which puts this project in the red. This is becoming a concern and sad not to mention unsustainable ;( If you dig k9s and want to help the project, please consider paying it forward! and don't become just another satisfied, non paying customer!. K9s does take a lot of my free time to maintain, enhance and keep the light on. Many cool ideas are making it straight to the freezer as I just can't budget them in.
I know many of you work for big corporations, so please put in the word/work and have them help us out via sponsorships or other means.

Thank you!

Resolved Issues

• #3608 k9s crashes when :namespaces used
• #3606 Xray not working anymore on (possible) v0.50.X
• #3594 Show pod yaml - Boom!! cannot deep copy int
• #3591 Accept suggestion with enter (without having to "tab")
• #3576 Custom alias/view not working anymore since v0.50.10

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Release v0.50.13

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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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

Maintenance Release!

Resolved Issues

• #3587 UI doesn't show any updates when restarting a Deployment
• #3585 abbreviation sec for secret not working
• #3584 Show managed fields doesn't show them
• #3583 Cannot open shell to pods without node read access as of 0.50.12
• #3577 Log view is broken as of v0.50.10
• #3574 Aliases for pods with label filters not working

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Release v0.50.12

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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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

Maintenance Release!

Resolved Issues

• #3570 0.50.11 could not display any resources
• #3562 Can't delete namespace
• #3547 Error message from admission controller

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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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

Maintenance Release!

Oh dear! Hopefully we're happier on this drop?? Apologizes for the disturbance in the farce...

Resolved Issues

• #3567 Extra slash '/' added when filtering from the command prompt
• #3566 unable to switch context or use k9s after upgrade to 0.50.10

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Release v0.50.10

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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!!

As you may know, K9s is not pimped out by corps with deep pockets, thus if you feel K9s is helping your Kubernetes journey,
please consider joining our sponsorship program and/or make some noise on social! @kitesurfer

On Slack? Please join us K9slackers

Maintenance Release!

A Word From Our Sponsors...

To all the good folks below that opted to pay it forward and join our sponsorship program, I salute you!!

• rufusshrestha
• Ovidijus Balkauskas
• Konrad Konieczny
• Serit Tromsø
• Dennis
• LinPr
• franzXaver987
• Drew Showalter
• Sandylen
• Uriah Carpenter
• Vector Group
• Stefan Roman
• Phillip
• Lasse Bang Mikkelsen

Sponsorship cancellations since the last release: 19! 🥹

Resolved Issues

• #3541 ServiceAccount RBAC Rules not displayed if RoleBinding subject doesn't specify namespace
• #3535 Current Release process will cause code changes been reverted
• #3525 k9s suspends when launching foreground plugin
• #3495 Regression: filtering no long works with aliases
• #3478 High Disk and CPU usage when imageScans Is enabled in K9s
• #3470 Aliases for pods with unequal (!=) label filters not working
• #3466 Shared GPU (nvidia.com/gpu.shared) is shown as n/a on K9s node view
• #3455 memory command not found

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!!

• #3558 refactor(duplik8s): consolidate duplicate resource commands and updat…
• #3555 feat: add dup plugin
• #3543 Make "flux trace" more generic
• #3536 Add flux-operator resources to flux plugin
• #3528 feat(plugins): add pvc debug container plugin
• #3517 Feature/refresh rate
• #3516 Fixes flickering/jumping issue in context suggestions caused by inconsistent spacing behavior
• #3515 Fix/suppress init no resources warning
• #3513 fix: Color PV row according to its STATUS column
• #3513 fix: Color PV row according to its STATUS column
• #3505 docs: Add installation method with gah
• #3503 fix(logs): enhance log streaming with retry mechanism and error handling
• #3489 feat: Add context deletion functionality
• #3487 fsupport core group resources in k9s/plugins/watch-events.yaml
• #3485 Add disable-self-subject-access-reviews flag to disable can-i check…
• #3464 fix: get-all command in get all plugin

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