CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

5.2.13 - 2024-10-15

Added

• WSL: Relay method using custom ssh client + custom ssh server and windows named pipes
• Connection info screen - exemplify how to connect from code and with cli tools

Changed

• Improved the way volume mounts are displayed
• Improved layers display (use div instead of a textarea)
• Default monospace font is now Consolas, "SF Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Droid Sans Mono", "Ubuntu Mono", "Roboto Mono", "Fira Code", monospace, "Powerline Extra Symbols"
• Improved environment variables display(Container Inspect)
• Windows is now using only named pipes for remote and WSL connections instead of TCP
• Linux and MacOS use relayed unix sockets instead of TCP

5.2.12 - 2024-10-10

Added

• WSL - All relay binaries and build scripts

5.2.11 - 2024-10-08

Changed

• WSL - Ensure $HOME/.local/bin/container-desktop-wsl-relay has executable permissions once deployed

5.2.10 - 2024-10-08

Changed

• WSL - Use socat / local named pipe server instead of TCP to connect to a custom distribution
• Reduced default timeouts to 3 seconds

5.2.9 - 2024-10-07

Changed

• WSL - Add socat retry mechanism for Docker engine

5.2.8 - 2024-10-07

Changed

• WSL - Use custom socat relay build - deploy to WSL file-system before spawning to avoid execvp errors

5.2.7 - 2024-10-05

Changed

• WSL - Drop custom relay in favor of custom socat build, relay using a node server listening on named pipe
• WSL - Use named pipes listener instead of random tcp localhost allocated port listener(more secure, avoid firewall prompts)
• Improve logging
• Improve spawned processes killing

5.2.6 - 2024-09-24

Changed

• WSL - Create and use a custom TCP relay
• WSL - Performance - Reduced CPU usage to insignificant values during polling
• WSL - Provisioning - Removed the need for socat or netcat as the relay binary is now bundled for Windows

Fixed

• Avoid reading container processes if container is not running

Added

• WSL - Killing of spawned processes from WSL distribution before application graceful quit(nodejs cannot kill them as they are not native)
• WSL - Relay binary helper building during release

5.2.5 - 2024-09-24

Fixed

• WSL - Fix never ending pollers due to netcat no timeout exit

Changed

• Reduced the polling frequency to 2 seconds

5.2.4 - 2024-09-24

Fixed

• WSL - Support for multiple distributions even with automatic connections
• Flatpak - Unable to set icon and connect properly
• Linux - Proper icons and logos in all cases for all packages
• Window Close issues

Changed

• Reduced timeouts to fail faster
• Improved flatpak build process to be able to publish to flathub
• Updated deps

Changed

5.2.3 - 2024-09-20

Changed

• Completed rebranding - added container-desktop.com support
• Added separate UI and latest version checking API endpoint for supporting Microsoft Store for Windows as updates need approval
• Only build appx target by default in releases
• Podman machine info respects the cli
• Moved container stats to container actions menu to favor Processes
• Container pages auto-refresh on container start / stop / pause / restart
• Container playback actions differentiation
• Upgraded deps

Added

• Issue #159: Ability to create and start multiple containers from the same image
• Processes top list page for a container
• Reload button for all container screens

Fixed

• Docker engine discovery - now it is supposed to support any docker engine in existence using auto-detection (podman impersonating as docker is recognized on purpose as docker just like any other client that uses podman docker compatibility layer)
• Tray icon for mac is now theme aware and has proper size

5.2.2-rc.7 - 2024-09-13

Changed

• Re-branded from podman-desktop-companion to container-desktop to avoid confusion of users and publishers with the younger podman-desktop

5.2.2-rc.6 - 2024-09-11

Fixed

• Theme switch on connect
• Startup/Shutdown of managed hosts
• Env sourcing
• Starting containers with volumes and exposed ports
• Open in browser when applicable
• Icons generator

Added

• Proper privacy policy page
• Graphics generator
• Self-sign test task

Changed

• Upgraded deps
• Home page podman desktop note and redirect to avoid users getting wrong message
• Home page license and privacy notes

Removed

• System tray screenshots as they were inaccurate

5.2.2-rc.5 - 2024-09-11

Fixed

• Terminate WSL distributions only if started by pdc
• Stop LIMA instances only if started by pdc

Added

• Icons for Windows Store

Changed

• Privacy policy to be readable

5.2.2-rc.4 - 2024-09-11

Fixed

• Properly close connections
• Auto-mode supported for all connection types
• Bug with podman not being able to create the basedir of the listening socket on WSL
• Mode change disabled while pending operation
• Registry search behavior for docker
• NSIS installer icon
• Visual bugs

Added

• Detect button for relay endpoint

Changed

• Display version only when connected
• Export connections with version specifier
• Connection pending indicator moved to bottom of the form
• Refactor all needed to respect containers domain
• Upgraded deps

Removed

• Unused dependencies

5.2.2-rc.3 - 2024-09-08

Fixed

• Connection defaults to first available podman (virtualized or native) at first start
• Ability to set default connection was broken

5.2.2-rc.2 - 2024-09-08

Fixed

• Fixed pause / unpause of containers

5.2.2-rc.1 - 2024-09-08

Added

• Application startup visual log
• Flexible connection management method and UI
• Support for custom WSL distributions
• Support for custom LIMA instances
• Support for remote SSH connection using .ssh/config like VS Code extension
• Ability to export / import connections
• Ability to automatically detect installed packages
• Enabled latest version check
• Latest version publishing to static website
• Footer mentioning current connection and engine version
• No results non-ideal state for all list screens
• Manual reload/refresh button for all list screens

Changed

• Connection management
• Container inline player actions for stop/start/pause/restart
• Single file javascript bundling using ncc to eliminate need to distribute node_modules in asar package
• Tray icon with duo-tone

Fixed

• Automatic detections
• System clean/prune
• Factory reset
• Errors properly displaying
• Various visual issues

Removed

• Logging to file-system
• All electron languages besides en-US to reduce payload size

5.2.0-rc.4 - 2024-08-22

Added

• Enabled latest version check
• Latest version publishing to static website

Changed

• Make everything async
• Increase type safety
• Drop node polyfills
• Wrap node direct calls in a single Platform module

Fixed

• Issue #109 - Allow flatpak version to start/stop podman native binary
• Scanner report in light mode using docker engine
• Programs detection

5.2.0-rc.3 - 2024-08-15

Fixed

• Ubuntu 24.04 - apparmor template executable path was wrong
• Silenced apparmor errors where service is present / enabled but reported as not available (WSL + apparmor) - during reload

Changed

• Included LOW security reporting priority counts
• Removed environment letter suffix form version reporting
• Moved helper scripts outside sources
• Updated trivy homepage URL

Added

• Checksum generation for binaries

5.2.0-rc.2 - 2024-08-15

Fixed

• Ubuntu 24.04 launching issues(added apparmor profile, electron sandbox disabling)
• On linux, electron-builder product name uses project name to avoid path with spaces issues
• Issue #103 - terminal output

Changed

• MacOS default podman cli path
• Current version to 5.2.0 in defaults
• Changed default development port to use 3000
• Linux shortcut name changed to use project title
• Enabled ARM build for linux releases
• Upgraded dependencies
• Memory usage in human form

5.2.0-rc.1 - 2024-08-12

Added

• Home page note to favor podman-desktop - major feature freezing note added.
• README.md note to favor podman-desktop
• TODO.md update to release binaries for 5.2.0-rc1
• Links to Podman in action and Podman for DevOps books
• Changed all logos and icons to distinguish from podman desktop
• Fixed minor bugs with copy-to-clipboard, visual inconsistencies, terminal launching and shortcut entries
• Registries support(define / search / pull) - search using podman configuration for podman engine only, inline configuration(custom) for all engines
• Overlay quick start container actions on hover and tap for table users
• Expand / collapse sidebar support for more work space horizontally (persist settings across restart)
• Light mode / Dark mode toggle (already supported by the blueprintjs framework but not enabled) - for all engines
• Icons for some table views headers
• Unified navigation / inspect for all entities that support it

Changed

• Upgraded node to 20
• Upgrades to be compatible with podman 5.2.0
• Migrated all code to typescript (basic)
• Migrated infra to use vite instead of react-scripts
• Upgraded react blueprint framework to 5.x
• Upgraded all upgradable dependencies
• Modified CI/CD pipeline to support current version
• Modified example to work on Ubuntu 22.04 (my current OS)
• More compact lists and table views
• Unified headers with tables / lists
• Containers groups show first (like folders first in file managers)
• Pod infrastructure containers are placed in their special group, showing first if they exist
• Container logs use VT100 emulator for displaying ansi-colors properly (service is consuming byte array data instead of strings)

Fixed

• Merged all dependabot PRs
• Open terminal on some platforms
• Open browser on some platforms
• Main window shows up only when UI has received all init data to avoid showing incomplete windows
• Detail tables in Drawers didn't size properly - first column was taking too much space

Removed

• Sponsors

4.1.0-rc.29 - 2022-05-17

Fixed

• Issue #85 - Detection of paths is now handled properly

4.1.0-rc.28 - 2022-05-17

Fixed

• Issue #84 - Detection of versions is now handled properly
• Issue #54 - Pods tab: list with stats/start/stop
• Models reset on engine change not to confuse the users keeping old values
• Containers group header color for podman engine
• Pending indicator in the sidebar footer was a bit off vertically, now is centered
• Indentation due to css class name clashes
• Set active tab for container kube
• Ports map undefined coercion
• Detection avoids baseline versions from being reported to the user

Changed

• Moved actions as plugins of bridge using lambda architecture - an async function with context and parameters
• Clear bridge bootstrap phase, split into init happening only once and start, each time engines are switched
• Faster and more reliable startup, less prone to crashes and easier to read
• New models should implement ResetableModel
• Lift error boundary so that the app still has custom title bar even when it crashes
• Improved detection flow - test paths presence on disk for required executables
• Visual improvements

4.1.0-rc.26 - 2022-05-15

Fixed

• Missing scan report journal update dates and version on non-linux
• When connecting to docker engine - the app did not check if api is available and it was always connecting creating confusion

Added

• Issue #79 as per Issue #57 - Add container grouping by prefix, only a single prefix is supported to single level depth (first part after split by _)

Changed

• Improved pending indicators for long operations
• Added sorting by name for containers list
• Removed dead CSS

[4.1.0-rc.25] - 2022-05-14

Fixed

• Fix os missing os type dependency

[4.1.0-rc.24] - 2022-05-14

Added

• Error boundary to gracefully crash

Fixed

• Regression with default connector being always checked even if the user did not set one
• No more crashes in image security screen

[4.1.0-rc.23] - 2022-05-14

Added

• Container Image security scan screen with Trivy

Fixed

• Machine commands were broken (restart, stop, remove)

Others

• Separated responsibilities
• Started work on plugin architecture

[4.1.0-rc.22] - 2022-05-14

Added

• Network creation for podman end docker engines (no subnet support for docker for now)

Changed

• Activated stdout / stderr logging when level is debug for what is output coming from locally started apis for better tracing

[4.1.0-rc.21] - 2022-05-13

Changed

• Prevent stopping api on engine switching if not started by podman desktop companion

[4.1.0-rc.20] - 2022-05-13

Fixed

• issue #64 - Blank page after loading
• issue #77 - Missing podman-machine-default machine
• issue #73 - "Path to native podman CLI" disappears after saving
• issue #56 - UI freezes and cannot get back to configuration menu

Added

• Show program version in settings screen header left column

Changed

• Connection methods
• Upgraded electron engine
• Separated concerns (some)
• Moved back to IPC instead of works as they are faster
• Changed bootstrap method to be more stable in case of program failures

[4.1.0-rc.11] - 2022-05-11

• issue #73 - Prevent crashing if no programs or versions are found - do not merge empty strings, default as undefined is required for proper merge

[4.1.0-rc.10] - 2022-05-11

• issue #73 - Read and write settings without needing to spawn a worker

[4.1.0-rc.9] - 2022-05-11

• Fix UI blocking when server detections fail abruptly
• Moved all time consuming operations to web-workers
• Call socket api when possible

[4.1.0-rc.8] - 2022-05-09

• Attempt solving startup issues
• Added strict engine checks to avoid invalid operations on platforms that do not need it
• Added pod logs viewer
• Added jump to list for all screens to avoid back button confusion

[4.1.0-rc.1] - 2022-05-09

Added

• Added view kube yaml for pod
• Added view kube yaml for container
• Pods section processes
• Pods section list
• Pods section inspect
• Multiple container engine support
• Docker engine support
• Podman and Docker support for operating modes
• Adaptive color scheme to dissociate between engines (original for podman and blue for docker)
• Ability to customize path to podman / docker and their connection strings
• Ability to test custom configuration
• Ability to save customization and restore defaults
• Ability to detect what is currently available
• Full support for custom LIMA instance and WSL distributions for both engines
• 45: Added support for Windows Terminal as tool for "Open terminal" functionality
• Ability to dissociated between container states using colors
• Refactored the entire application to support any container engine easily

Changed

• Improved error messages everywhere
• Changed configuration and logging location, less screen vertical real-estate used
• Upgraded all dependencies to their most recent supported versions

Fixed

• 56: Podman machine startup / shutdown

[4.0.3-rc.5] - 2022-04-23

Added

• Connection system
• Experimental Docker API

Changed

• 47: Allow custom connection string
• Connection UI
• Various UI improvements
• Disable screens not making sense when using certain engines

[4.0.3-rc.4] - 2022-04-18

Fixed

• 44: Fix Open in Browsers due to schema changes
• 49: UI freezes on Start a new container
• Overflow issues triggering vertical & horizontal scrolling
• Bug with pause / resume of containers

Added

• 43: Restore LIMA
• Ability to switch logging to original console, to avoid losing lines
• Add more info about the environment where podman is running
• Port mappings as array of items - ability to map any port/protocol
• Add created counter on dashboard

Changed

• Improved detection of locally available podman, podman machine, LIMA
• Ability to connect without restart when switching engines (from native to machine, from machine to lima and back)
• Improved error handling and notifications
• Simplified logging

Removed

• Removed worker PRC - proxy all through Electron IPC
• CLI backend for communication - it was too limiting

[4.0.3-rc.3] - 2022-04-18

Added

• Builds for M1 architecture
• Counters for paused and exited on Dashboard screen
• Ability to pause / unpause a container
• Basic System Tray support (restore window & quit - no startup to tray)

Fixed

• Fix Dashboard wrong counters
• Fixed icon path in development mode
• Fixed window restoration on MacOS

Changed

• Added HTTP response ok state interpretation
• Changed build pipeline to be more explicit
• Added DecodedState computed property to Container type to avoid miss-match data when requesting lists vs single items
• Rephrased counters for running containers

Removed

• Removed extra Status column from Containers list screen

[4.0.3-rc.2] - 2022-04-16

• initial flatpak support (not yet flathub)
• solve custom program path setting bug

[4.0.3-b.5] - 2022-04-15

• Fix improper request body proxy-ing to worker affecting requests methods with body
• Add BDD initial testing for the client

[4.0.3-b.4] - 2022-04-14

• Add cli fallback when api is not available
• Refactor settings UI to allow toggling of cli fallback

[4.0.3-b.3] - 2022-04-13

• Properly respect build environment

[4.0.3-b.2] - 2022-04-13

• Enable debug panel for production builds

[4.0.3-b.1] - 2022-04-13

• Ability to control logging level and debug the application
• Provider more information and control over startup and internals

[4.0.0-b.2] - 2022-04-13

• Exposed application configuration storage path for the user to be informed
• Ability to turn auto-start on or off
• Ability to re-connect
• Changed bootstrap procedure using phases/states to improve detection
• Improved bootstrap failure reasons
• Use a single configuration source
• Wrapped logging into its own module to support switching
• Clean-up of old artifacts

[4.0.0-b.1] - 2022-04-09

• Upgrade to support podman 4.0.x
• Upgrade to blueprint 4.x
• Support Windows
• Support MacOS
• Dropped Lima temporarily until better configuration exists

[3.4.2-alpha.4] - 2022-02-06

Fixed

• 14: Automatic detection failed (macOs Catalina)

[3.4.2-alpha.3] - 2021-12-08

Support MacOS using lima, native read write mounts and terminal console

[3.4.2-alpha.2] - 2021-12-08

Address tech debt and allow easier development.

Changed

• Split easy-peasy model
• Changed application folder structure
• Add logging for all http requests with curl command construction
• Fix request parameters
• Fix secrets creation

Added

• Prepare bundling

[3.4.2-alpha.1] - 2021-12-06

Added

• Initial release