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What's New

Keep track of the latest updates, features, and improvements to Dockerman.

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5v5.6.1Jul 12, 2026LATEST

Polished Motion & Smoother Dashboard Charts

This release refreshes animations across the app, rebuilds the dashboard CPU and memory charts on a lightweight liveline engine, makes tables faster, unifies the streaming core, and fixes navigation highlighting and tooltip issues.

✨ Features

🎬Polished motion: App-wide animation refresh — instant tooltips, popovers that scale from their trigger, subtle button press feedback, and full reduced-motion support
📈Smoother dashboard charts: CPU and memory charts now render on a lightweight liveline engine with hover scrubbing, plus a proper y-axis

🔧 Improvements

⚡Faster tables: Virtualized rows no longer re-render on every scrolled pixel, and container views subscribe only to the state they need
🎞️Cheaper animations: Expanded-row and sidebar animations were flattened and tokenized for lower CPU cost
📡Unified streaming core: Logs, stats, builds, pulls, and terminals now share one stream lifecycle, improving cleanup and reconnect behavior

🐛 Bug Fixes

🧭Navigation highlighting: Sidebar items and breadcrumbs now resolve correctly on subroutes with shared prefixes
📊Dashboard tooltips: Fixed NaN time labels and bare-zero values in I/O tooltips; charts pause while scrubbing
🧱Process view: Dataless columns are hidden and headers no longer wrap
🗄️Storage detail: The detail table now follows the selected tab

5v5.6.0Jul 6, 2026

Apple Container Support & Guided Engine Setup

This release brings Apple's container engine to Dockerman as a first-class runtime on macOS, with guided engine setup and switching, smoother large views, consistent filters, and a tidier ports column.

✨ Features

🍎Apple Container support: Connect to Apple's container engine on macOS, manage containers, images, volumes, networks, logs, stats, builds, pulls, and interactive terminals from Dockerman
🧭Guided engine setup: macOS users can detect, start, stop, and switch engines from onboarding and Settings

🔧 Improvements

⚡Smoother large views: Faster image filtering, table resizing, route switching, and dialog-heavy action menus
🎛️Consistent filters: Image, volume, and log filters now use the same segmented control style
🔌Tidier ports column: Port mappings hide the redundant 0.0.0.0 host, the "+N" badge stays visible next to long labels, and every port — including those inside "+N" — can be copied with one click
🧩Cleaner interface: Many large pages and dialogs were split and simplified, making the app easier to navigate and maintain

🐛 Bug Fixes

🔌More reliable engine switching: Fixed connection, capability, polling, and selection edge cases across Docker and Apple Container
📡Better streaming: Improved logs, stats, build output, pulls, and terminal behavior for Apple Container
🧪Stability fixes: Fixed chart rendering, persisted store recovery, compose editor saves, container selection after reconnect, and log stream completion states

5v5.5.0Jun 30, 2026

End-to-End Kubernetes Management, Live Container Triage & Sharper Search

This release makes Kubernetes a first-class workload — many more resources, guarded workload operations, YAML everywhere, deeper Pod insight, port-forwarding, Helm, RBAC, events, and auto-refresh. It also adds live container triage, one-click copy across the app, sharper search, and more maintenance tools.

✨ Features

☸️Kubernetes management, end to end: Dockerman now drives clusters as a first-class workload, not just an add-on
🧭 Many more resources: Adds HorizontalPodAutoscalers, ResourceQuotas, LimitRanges, PodDisruptionBudgets, EndpointSlices, and arbitrary CustomResourceDefinitions and instances alongside the core resources
🚀 Workload operations: Roll back, pause/resume, restart, and update images on Deployments; rerun Jobs; trigger CronJobs; tune HPA replicas; and drain, cordon, or act on Nodes — each guarded by a typed confirmation
📄 YAML everywhere: Open or link almost any resource to its YAML, copy the matching `kubectl` command, and apply changes by pasting YAML
🔭 Pod insight: Richer pod details with container state reasons, resource metrics, exit diagnostics, missing-request flags, and one-click links to logs, nodes, owners, and images
🛰️ Port-forwarding: Auto-pick a local port, disambiguate targets, open forwarded URLs, and copy ready-to-run `kubectl port-forward` commands
⎈ Helm: Pick chart versions, view release manifests, validate and copy repository URLs, and roll back releases with confirmation
🔐 RBAC: Run can-i checks, search bindings by subject, and review rule summaries
🔔 Events: Filter by time window and resource, export, link messages to the resources they reference, and highlight repeated warnings
🔎 Search & navigation: Per-resource search and filters, all-namespace scopes, keyboard row expansion, Kubernetes search hotkeys, and a Spotlight mirror of the Kubernetes sidebar with persistent groups
🔄 Auto-refresh: Kubernetes lists refresh on their own and pause while the window is hidden
🐳Live container triage: Open recent logs and triage views for failing containers, see healthcheck failure output and exit diagnostics, and surface abnormal Docker events
📋Copy what you need: One-click copy for container IDs, names, and image references, published port URLs, network IDs, volume mountpoints, inspect mount paths, and `docker logs`/inspect commands
🔍Sharper search: Search containers by command, mount, label, network, and status with live filter counts; search image, volume, and network metadata; and group and search container stacks
🧹More maintenance tools: Prune the Docker build cache, create a container straight from an image, and start stopped Compose projects

🔧 Improvements

📁File explorer & logs: Keyboard-accessible navigation, focusable search with shortcuts and empty-state resets, stream filtering, copyable file paths, and sanitized export filenames
⌨️Accessibility & naming: Hundreds of buttons, inputs, and menus across the app gained accessible names and keyboard support
🌐Localization: Localized status labels, timestamps, time ranges, and search controls across Docker and Kubernetes views in zh/ja/es
🧩Clearer disabled states: Disabled actions — image push, stack deploy, network and volume delete, alert and task creation, and more — now explain why
🗂️Backups: Remember the backup directory, reveal completed backups, and review recent backups per container
🪟macOS polish: Restore the main window on reopen, keep the Dock icon visible after close, and default builds to universal binaries

🐛 Bug Fixes

🔒Secret redaction: Redact sensitive Docker labels, image label secrets, Docker options, and Secret YAML by default, and stop matching searches on redacted values
🔁Refresh correctness: Wait for refreshes before reporting success, and refresh lists after lifecycle, batch, import, and row actions
🗑️Safer deletes: Require typed confirmation before removing containers and Compose projects, skip in-use volume batch deletes, and hide delete for managed networks
🔌Ports & registries: Preserve host IPs and registry ports across push, tag, and link, and keep restored port bindings intact
🖥️Terminal: Reconnect dropped Docker and Kubernetes terminal sessions, and stop terminal and log selections from hijacking the clipboard
🧮Sorting & rates: Sort capacity, size, and ref-count columns numerically, and calculate dashboard I/O rates per second
🍎Builds: Default macOS builds to universal binaries and sign sidecar binaries correctly

5v5.4.0Jun 13, 2026

App Marketplace, SSH Host Deploys & Inline Port Editing

This release introduces a full App Marketplace for browsing and installing one-click app templates, lets you deploy and manage apps on SSH-only remote hosts, and adds inline editing of a running container's port mappings — plus safer template downloads and streaming container stats.

✨ Features

🛍️App Marketplace: Browse and install apps from a catalog of one-click templates, then manage everything you've installed
🌐 Open-Source App Sources: Comes with the Portainer Community Templates (auto-synced) and CasaOS App Store (synced on demand) sources, and you can add your own
🗃️ Import From Existing Stores: Install apps from docker-compose repos (Dockge-style), CasaOS, and Portainer templates — deployed using their original compose files
🛡️ Safety Checks Before Deploy: Apps that need elevated access (privileged mode, the Docker socket, host networking, and similar) are flagged and ask you to confirm before installing
🧩 Configure Before You Install: Edit a template's variables, environment variables, ports, and data location — and add your own environment variables when a template doesn't include one
🗂️ Rich Details: See an app's image, ports, volumes, network, restart policy, source, and a link to its repository before installing, and inspect installed apps down to their compose files
🔐Deploy to SSH Hosts: Install and manage apps on remote hosts reachable only over SSH
🔌Edit Container Ports: Add, change, and remove a running container's port mappings inline

🔧 Improvements

🔒Safer Template Downloads: Template sources can't be used to reach internal or private network addresses, and downloads are size-limited
📡Live Sync Progress: Watch download and import progress while a template source syncs
📍Smarter Deploy Defaults: The data location is prefilled per host, and the page jumps to your installed apps once a deploy finishes
📊Streaming Stats: Container stats stream over a persistent connection for lower overhead

🐛 Bug Fixes

🪟Windows & Linux CLI Bundling: Fixed the bundled `dockerman` CLI paths in the Windows installer and the Linux package
🔐SSH Trust Handling: Fixed how SSH host-key trust is passed through, and closed untrusted forwarding paths
🧹App Reliability: Handle host-switching races, keep records when cleanup fails, and correctly identify managed volumes

⚠️ Notes

🔁Portainer Apps From Earlier Test Builds: Portainer templates now use name-based IDs instead of position-based ones. If you installed a Portainer app from a pre-release build, it won't match the new catalog — uninstall and reinstall it to restore updates and redeploys.

5v5.3.1May 12, 2026

Safer Windows CLI Copy Command

A targeted patch that keeps the Settings → CLI "Copy command" install path from ever touching User PATH, so the GUI's "Install for this user" button remains the single source of PATH updates.

🐛 Bug Fixes

🪟Windows CLI Copy Command PATH Safety: Settings → CLI "Copy command" no longer touches User PATH. The previous PowerShell could collapse User PATH down to just the Dockerman bin directory in edge cases. PATH updates are now handled exclusively by the GUI "Install for this user" button, which uses safe direct registry access. The copied command also writes the ownership marker so manual installs are correctly recognized as Dockerman-managed instead of `Unsupported`.

5v5.3.0May 5, 2026

Bundled CLI, AI Assistant Plugins & Windows Engine Switcher

This release ships the Dockerman CLI alongside the desktop app, adds a Settings panel for installing Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI plugins, lets Windows users switch between the managed WSL2 engine and OS-native Docker, and brings polish to reconnects, WSL setup, Trivy updates, and the Build page.

✨ Features

📦Bundled Dockerman CLI: Ship the `dockerman` CLI alongside the desktop app, with a Settings panel to install, update, and uninstall the binary
🤖AI Assistant Plugin Panel: New Settings panel to install Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI plugins
🪟Windows Engine Source Switcher: Switch between the managed WSL2 Docker Engine and OS-native Docker directly from settings
🔄Engine-Aware Reconnect: Local host automatically reconnects when the engine source changes from the WSL page
🔁WSL Reinstall: Added a reinstall option to the WSL setup flow
🛡️Trivy Update Check: Check for and apply Trivy CLI updates from within Settings
🕒Build Page Polish: Image build page now shows formatted timestamps and truncates long fields with tooltips

🔧 Improvements

🤫Silent Localhost Reconnect: Localhost connections retry silently without noisy error toasts
🧮Smarter Tooltip Truncation: Tooltips now only appear when text is actually clipped

🐛 Bug Fixes

🐳Windows Docker Defaults: Use OS-local Docker defaults on Windows when not running the WSL2 engine
🪟WSL2 Engine Selection Copy: Clarified the Dockerman WSL2 engine selection labels
🧷Default Host Selection: More robust default host selection on app start
📡Docker Settings Connect: Added loading state and clearer error feedback when connecting from settings
🪟Windows CLI Bundle: Include the bundled `dockerman` CLI sidecar binary in the Windows installer

5v5.2.0Apr 26, 2026

Multi-Cluster Kubernetes, Image Watch & Homelab Foundations

This release broadens Kubernetes management with multi-cluster switching, YAML dry-run, and dedicated pages for nodes, PVs, and namespaces; adds log search, an image upgrade watch service with notifications, bind-mount backup/restore, and the Homelab roadmap foundation; and lands a settings workspace, full i18n coverage, and a standardized data-table pattern.

✨ Features

☸️Kubernetes Enhancements: Broadened cluster management surface
🔀 Multi-Cluster Switching: Switch between Kubernetes clusters independently from Docker hosts
🧪 YAML Dry-Run Preview: Compare changes before applying via server-side dry-run
📣 Events Browser: Filterable cluster events page with endpoint filters
🖥️ Node / PV / Namespace Pages: Dedicated management pages for nodes, persistent volumes, and namespaces
🔍 Kubeconfig Context Discovery: Auto-detect contexts in the import dialog
🛡️ Typed 403 Handling: `K8sListResult<T>` surfaces permission errors on list views
🗑️ Delete Buttons: Added for Services, Ingresses, CronJobs, DaemonSets, Deployments, StatefulSets, and NetworkPolicies
🔍Log Search: Search logs with keyword highlight, regex, case-sensitive toggle, and match navigation
🎛️Unified Log Controls: Time range presets, tail count selector, and query filters consolidated into a single toolbar
📈Historical Stats Chart: CPU/memory history with a 7-tier time range selector
📝Compose YAML Editor: Monaco-backed editor with backend Tauri commands for editing and applying Compose files
🔄Docker Run → Compose Converter: Dedicated page and menu entries that translate `docker run` commands into Compose YAML
🔔Image Upgrade Watch: Background subscription service for image update detection
📬 Subscription page + settings UI with per-channel controls
🔐 Registry credential resolver with fail-closed handling on ambiguity
🕒 Scheduler with history cursor tracking and batched notifications
🔗 `dockerman://` deep link handler
💾Bind Mount Backup & Restore: Include supported bind mount data in backups and remap or restore it per mount during restore
🏡Homelab Roadmap (Phase 1–3 partial): Foundation plus selected non-MVP items
🧰 Diagnostic Bundle: One-click packaging of logs, inspect, and host state for support
🚨 Preset Alert Rules: Built-in restart-loop and container-crash rules with delete-guard and reset-to-defaults
📝 .env Visual Editor: `/env-editor?path=...` page with key/value editing, comment/blank-line preservation, and atomic Save & Apply
📊 Multi-Container Stats Compare: Side-by-side CPU/memory charts for up to 6 containers with persisted selections
📂 Container-File Editor Hardening: Mode-preserving save, 1 MB edit cap, and NUL-byte binary detection
🌐Full i18n Coverage: Replaced remaining hardcoded strings with i18n calls and shipped translations for Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese
⚙️Settings Workspace Dialog: Settings moved into a workspace-style dialog with flattened panels, refined sidebar chrome, and a simplified activated-license footer
👁️Sidebar Visibility Controls: Per-item show/hide for the main sidebar plus per-group default expand state and visibility controls for the Kubernetes sidebar
🧱Standardized Data Table Pattern: TanStack Table v8 baseline with column resizing/sorting, persisted column widths, global search, truncate tooltips, and viewport-centered empty state — applied to K8s `event`, `pod`, `deployment`, `daemon-set`, `stateful-set`, `job`, `cron-job`, `service`, `ingress`, `config-map`, `pv`, `namespace`, and `port-forward`
📊K8s Cluster Overview Cards: CPU and memory usage cards on the cluster overview page
💥Pod Force Delete: Skip graceful shutdown (grace period 0) for Pods stuck terminating
🗄️System Task Management: Scheduler task-run snapshots and a built-in task management UI with locked controls for built-in tasks
🚨Recent Alerts Metadata: Container, local time, and rule name shown on the alerts list with an accessible preset rule row
🔇Smart Right-Click: Suppress the native context menu while text is selected

🔧 Improvements

🧭Container Header Actions: Consolidated top-row buttons into grouped dropdown menus
🖼️Image Watches Entry: Moved from the sidebar into the image page header
↩️Run Converter Back Navigation: Added a back button to the converter page
🧹Biome Lint Cleanup: Resolved all 71 outstanding lint errors across the codebase
🗂️K8s Sidebar Reorg: Top group aligned with mainstream tools, icons refreshed, and per-group default expand state decoupled from runtime collapse
🎚️Container Toolbar: Show-all and batch-mode toggles consolidated into the search row using a new Shadcn Toggle component; view-mode toggle refined
🧰Alerts Layout: Selector + detail layout for alerts; preset rule reused in legacy notification migration
🧪Native WDIO E2E Runner: Enabled with documented progress and a refreshed Dockerman 5.2.0 manual test plan

🐛 Bug Fixes

🔁K8s Sidebar Flicker: Prevented flicker when switching clusters
🧭K8s Route Restore: Route returns to last resource when re-entering a cluster
🧾K3d Log Dialog Scrolling: Refined scroll behavior in the k3d log dialog
🧱YAML Resource Selection: Prevented stale resource selection in the YAML editor
🛠️Make History Recording: Hardened make history write path
🕰️Relative Time Defaults: Fixed missing default relative-time translations and switched to `Intl.RelativeTimeFormat`
⌘Store Selector Init: Lazily create optional store selectors to avoid init-time crashes
🔄K8s Restart Restore: Restore the connected cluster and deep K8s pages (CRD instances, YAML editor) after an app restart
🗂️Cluster Switch Page Preservation: Keep the current K8s page when switching clusters; sidebar namespace selector syncs with namespace-details refresh
🔢Overview Workload Counts: Count workloads across all namespaces on the cluster overview
📋ConfigMap List Interaction: Row click opens detail; inline delete works again
🪧Workload Empty State Copy: Proper empty-state messages for K8s workload lists
🧬Job Delete Cascade: Localized confirmation that cascades deletion to owned Pods
🔗YAML Navigation: Honor the `resource` query param when navigating to the YAML editor
🧷K8s Breadcrumb Mapping: Completed route mapping across all K8s pages
🪪Secret Annotation Hiding: Hide the `last-applied-configuration` annotation in Secret detail
📁File Preview Action: Re-exposed in container file browser
🛤️Path Normalization: Stack files created via the backend command with normalized stack and backup paths
🛡️Dialog Localization: Container, diagnostic, and settings dialogs fully localized
📡K8s DNS Setup Dialog: Long setup commands now wrap correctly
✅Alerts Channel Checkbox: Aligned with label text
🩹Tasks Page Type Checks: Stabilized type inference

5v5.1.0Apr 8, 2026

Podman Runtime Support

This release introduces first-class Podman runtime support alongside Docker, with automatic runtime detection, per-host preference selection, and an extensible capabilities system for feature gating.

✨ Features

🐙Podman Support: First-class Podman runtime support alongside Docker
🔍 Runtime Detection: Automatic detection of Docker, Podman, or compatible runtimes via API probing
⚙️ Runtime Preference: Per-host and global runtime preference selector (Auto / Docker / Podman)
🔌 Socket Resolution: Auto-discovery of Podman rootless/rootful sockets on Linux and macOS
🌐 Remote SSH Probing: Runtime-aware socket resolution for remote SSH hosts
🏷️ Runtime Badge: Sidebar host switcher shows detected runtime type with color-coded badge
📊 Dashboard Integration: Runtime kind displayed in the system info card
🔧 Connection Feedback: Detected runtime shown in connection success terminal output
🚫 Compose Gate: Stack templates and Compose actions automatically hidden for Podman runtime
🔎 Spotlight Awareness: Command palette skips Compose data when connected to Podman
🧩 Capabilities Layer: Extensible runtime capabilities system for future feature gating

🔧 Improvements

🔄Runtime Switch Handling: Template page dynamically updates when switching between Docker and Podman hosts
🛡️Spotlight Isolation: Spotlight window runtime checks use direct Tauri commands without store side effects

5v5.0.0Apr 7, 2026

Kubernetes Support & Cloud Tunnels

This major release introduces full Kubernetes management, Cloudflared tunnels for one-click internet exposure, automatic image upgrade detection with rollback, a rebuilt container info dashboard, and two new languages.

✨ Features

☸️Kubernetes Support: Full Kubernetes management alongside Docker
🚀 Cluster Management: Connect via kubeconfig or create local clusters with k3d
📦 Workloads: Manage Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs, ReplicaSets, and Pods
🌐 Networking: Services, Ingresses, Endpoints, and NetworkPolicies
🔧 Config & Storage: ConfigMaps, Secrets, PersistentVolumeClaims, and StorageClasses
🔐 RBAC: Roles, ClusterRoles, RoleBindings, ClusterRoleBindings, and ServiceAccounts
🧩 Custom Resources: Browse CRDs and manage their instances
📝 YAML Editor: Edit any resource with deep-link support
⎈ Helm Support: Browse releases, add repos, search charts, and install
🔗 Port Forwarding: Forward ports for Pods, Services, and Deployments
🌍 Auto DNS: Local DNS registration for forwarded services
🛠️ Debug Assistant: Troubleshooting page for Pod and cluster issues
☁️Cloudflared Tunnels: Expose local container ports to the internet with one click
🔘 One-click tunnel button in container port info table
📋 Dedicated tunnel list in sidebar with batch operations
🔄 Automatic cleanup on container stop/die/destroy
💾 Persistent tunnel recovery after crashes
🔄Image Upgrade Detection: Automatically detect when container images have updates
🏷️ Upgrade badges on container list with digest comparison
🖱️ One-click upgrade with image pull and container recreation
🔁 One-click rollback from action menu
⚡ Automatic checks on page load, refresh, and host switch
📊Container Info Dashboard: Rebuilt container info page with dashboard layout
🎯 Env vars, mounts, and resource limits in dedicated panels
❤️ Healthcheck status alongside CPU and memory
🌐Japanese & Spanish: Full localization for ja and es (4 languages total)
🔌Container Ports Column: New ports column with popover dropdown
📋Unified Log Viewer: Shared LogViewer for Docker and Kubernetes logs
📜Table Horizontal Scrolling: All major tables support horizontal scrolling
🧭K8s Breadcrumb Navigation: Clickable breadcrumbs for resource hierarchy

🔧 Improvements

📌Sticky Expanded Rows: Expanded container rows stay pinned while scrolling
📏Column Width Persistence: Resizable column widths remembered across sessions
🔍Auto Show All on Search: Searching now includes stopped containers
📋Inspect Page: Sticky section headers and improved layouts
🔁Tunnel Reliability: Startup timeout, cancel button, and crash recovery
🔀Host/K8s Switcher Redesign: Consolidated icons with animated tabs
🔘Unified Toggle Button: Merged Show All / Hide All toggle
🎨K8s UI Polish: Compacted overview, unified badges, streamlined detail pages

🐛 Bug Fixes

📝KeyValueTable Editing: Fixed inability to edit values when adding new keys
🐳K3d Container Filtering: Hidden k3d containers from sidebar
⚙️K8s Terminal: Hardened terminal availability checks
🔍Host Switcher Highlight: Scoped active highlight to current mode
🗑️K3d Cluster Cleanup: Removed invalid flag from cluster delete

4v4.8.0Mar 31, 2026

Container Backup & Restore

This release introduces full container backup and restore functionality with progress tracking, preview, and Spotlight commands for quick access.

✨ Features

💾Container Backup: Full container backup and restore with progress tracking
📦Archive Everything: Back up container configuration, filesystem, and volumes to a single archive
🔄Smart Restore: Restore containers from backup with preview, port editing, name conflict resolution, and image retag
🔍Backup Preview: Shows configuration details before restoring
⚡Streaming Progress: Real-time progress tracking with cancel support
🔎Spotlight Commands: Quick access to backup and restore operations

4v4.7.0Mar 29, 2026

Image Combobox & Port Search

This release adds a searchable image combobox for container creation and port number search for containers.

✨ Features

🖼️Image Combobox: Replace image text input with searchable combobox in container create dialog
🔍Container Port Search: Search containers by port number, protocol, or port mapping

🔧 Improvements

🔌EndpointsConfig: Add missing EndpointsConfig field in docker run command parser
⚠️Error Messages: Show actual error message when container creation fails

4v4.6.0Mar 26, 2026

Docker Hub Browser & Security Scanning

This release adds container pause/unpause, commit, and clone operations, image push to registries, a built-in Docker Hub browser, and Trivy security scanning.

✨ Features

⏸️Container Pause/Unpause: Pause and unpause running containers with three-state menu support
📦Container Commit: Commit container state as a new image via commit dialog
🐑Container Clone: Clone existing container configuration into the create dialog
🚀Image Push: Push images to registries with streaming progress and credential management
🔍Docker Hub Browser: Search, browse image details, README, and tags directly in-app
🛡️Trivy Security Scan: Install Trivy, scan images for vulnerabilities, filter and review results

🔧 Improvements

🎨Syntax Highlighting: Docker command syntax highlighting
📋Code Block Copy: Copy button on Markdown code blocks in Hub detail page
🎞️Animated Tab Indicator: Animated tab indicator with spring transition
📌Sticky Table Headers: Sticky table headers for Hub search results
🔄Circular Progress Ring: Circular progress ring for Hub pull button
📊Virtualized Table: Virtualized vulnerability table for scan results

4v4.5.0Mar 21, 2026

Stats Page Redesign

This release rebuilds the container resource monitoring dashboard with ring gauges, sparkline charts, time range controls, and collapsible detail panels.

✨ Features

📊Stats Page Redesign: Rebuilt container resource monitoring dashboard
🔘Ring Gauges: CPU and memory usage at a glance
📈Sparkline Charts: CPU, memory, network I/O, and disk I/O
⏱️Time Range Selector: Control chart history window
📋Collapsible Detail Panels: Network interfaces and disk devices
💡Chart Tooltips: Formatted values on hover

4v4.4.0Mar 11, 2026

File Preview & Multi-Select

This release adds file preview with in-place editing, file deletion, and multi-select with batch operations in the container file browser.

✨ Features

👁️File Preview: Right-click files in the file browser to preview text, code, images, Markdown, PDF, video, and audio directly in-app
✏️In-place Editing: Edit text and code files with syntax highlighting and save changes back to the container
🗑️File Delete: Delete files and folders from the right-click context menu with a confirmation dialog
✅Multi-Select: Select multiple files with ⌘/Ctrl+Click (toggle) and Shift+Click (range), then batch download, delete, or copy paths

4v4.3.0Mar 8, 2026

WSL2 Docker Engine & Performance Boost

This release lets Windows users run Docker Engine directly inside a managed WSL2 distro, adds non-blocking connection and concurrent data loading, and improves SSH tunnel reliability.

✨ Features

🪟WSL2 Docker Engine: Windows users can now run Docker Engine directly inside a managed WSL2 distro — no Docker Desktop required
🧙Setup Wizard: Guided one-click setup that imports a lightweight Alpine distro, installs Docker, and starts the daemon
🔄Crash Recovery: Automatic daemon restart with backoff on unexpected shutdown or VM reboot
📊Resource Monitor: View CPU, memory, and disk usage of the WSL2 distro
⚙️Daemon Configuration: Edit `daemon.json` with a form editor or raw JSON, including registry mirrors, with validation and one-click apply
🔀Engine Switching: Switch between Docker Desktop and WSL2 Engine from the connection failed dialog

⚡ Performance

🔌Non-blocking Connection: Connect dialog no longer blocks while syncing data — closes immediately after forwarding succeeds
🚀Concurrent Data Loading: Docker state (containers, images, compose, stats, info) now loads in parallel instead of sequentially

🐛 Bug Fixes

🔁Auto-Reconnect: SSH tunnel failures are now detected via heartbeat and silently reconnected — no more manual reload needed
🔗Host Status: Host switcher no longer shows loading state after a successful connection

🎨 Improvements

🔄Unified Refresh Buttons: All refresh buttons across the app now share a consistent component with spin animation

4v4.2.2Feb 24, 2026

License Self-Service & Management

This release adds self-service license reset, a dedicated license management page, and improved activation security with email verification.

✨ Features

🔑License Self-Service Reset: Reset all activated devices via email confirmation — no need to contact support
🌐License Management Page: Access `license.dockerman.app/manage` directly from Settings to manage your license

🎨 Improvements

📧Email Verification on Activation: Your email is now verified during license activation for better account security

4v4.2.1Feb 24, 2026

Tray Icons & Click Behavior

This release adds dedicated tray icons for Windows and Linux, and improves tray click behavior on macOS and Windows.

✨ Features

🪟Windows Tray Icon: Added dedicated tray icon for Windows, improving visual consistency across platforms
🐧Linux Tray Icons: Added Linux-specific icons at multiple resolutions (32x32, 128x128, 128x128@2x)

🎨 Improvements

🍎macOS Tray Click: Left-clicking the tray icon now opens the main window; right-click opens the menu
🪟Windows Tray Click: Left-clicking the tray icon now opens the main window; right-click opens the menu

4v4.2.0Feb 23, 2026

Single Instance & Wayland Shortcuts

This release introduces single-instance support on Linux/Windows and global keyboard shortcuts on Wayland, along with window and UI bug fixes.

✨ Features

🖥️Single Instance (Linux/Windows): Launching a second instance now activates the existing window instead of opening a duplicate
⌨️Wayland Global Shortcuts: Global keyboard shortcut support on Wayland via XDG Desktop Portal, with D-Bus + gsettings fallback for GNOME

🐛 Bug Fixes

🪟Linux Rounded Corners: Fixed Linux window missing rounded corners when native decorations are disabled, now matches GNOME/libadwaita style
🌗Dark Mode Controls: Improved window control button hover visibility in dark mode
🔍Spotlight Drag: Fixed spotlight window hiding during drag operations on Linux/Wayland

4v4.1.0Feb 20, 2026

License, Latency & Host Management

This release introduces license management, remote host latency display, and host removal, along with bug fixes and SSH stability improvements.

✨ Features

🔑License Management: Added license activation and management in Settings, with license gate for remote host features
📡Host Latency: Display network latency for remote hosts with ICMP ping and one-click refresh
🗑️Host Removal: Added host removal dialog with confirmation

🐛 Bug Fixes

🏷️Host Edit: Fixed host label and icon not updating after editing
🔌SSH Disconnect: Fixed SSH disconnect triggered by closing dialog after successful connection
🔄SSH Cancel: Fixed in-progress SSH connection not cancelled when closing connect dialog

⚡ Performance

🔗SSH Forwarding: Improved connection stability, lifecycle management, and reconnection handling

4v4.0.0Feb 17, 2026

Command Palette & System Tray

This release introduces a global command palette for instant resource access, system tray integration with real-time stats, and macOS dock auto-hide.

✨ Features

🔍Command Palette: Global command palette (Cmd+; / Ctrl+;) for quick access to containers, images, compose projects, networks, and volumes with instant actions
🖥️System Tray: Menu bar tray icon with connection status, resource stats, and quick actions (show/hide window, spotlight, settings, quit)
📊Menu Bar Stats: Optional real-time CPU & memory stats displayed directly in the macOS menu bar, configurable in Settings
🙈Auto-hide Dock Icon: Dock icon automatically hides when the main window is closed on macOS
⌨️Custom Shortcut: Configurable global keyboard shortcut for the command palette
🌐i18n: Full Chinese and English localization for command palette and tray settings

3v3.12.1Feb 13, 2026

Navigation Polish & Storage Performance

This release improves sidebar navigation animations and fixes performance issues on the storage page.

🎨 Improvements

🎬Sidebar Navigation: Smooth sliding animation when switching between navigation items and containers

⚡ Performance

💾Storage Page: Fixed lag when switching between resource tabs with large datasets

3v3.12.0Feb 12, 2026

Container Notifications & Log Shortcuts

This release adds desktop notifications for abnormal container events, keyboard shortcuts for log and event pages, and newest-first log ordering.

✨ Features

🔔Container Event Notifications: Desktop notifications for abnormal container events — non-zero exit, OOM killed, and health check failure
⌨️Log & Event Keyboard Shortcuts: Added keyboard shortcuts (`P` pause, `/` search, `g` newest, `G` oldest) with on-screen hints to container log and event pages
🔝Log Newest First: Container logs now display newest entries at the top, consistent with the events page

3v3.11.0Feb 10, 2026

Storage Overview & Private Registry

This release adds Docker disk usage visualization with one-click cleanup and private registry credential management with auto-matching.

✨ Features

💾Storage Page: View Docker disk usage breakdown (images, containers, volumes, build cache) with interactive chart and one-click system prune
🔐Private Registry: Configure private registry credentials with auto-matching on image pull, inline connection test, and credential visibility toggle

3v3.10.0Feb 08, 2026

Image Layers, Build Rebuild & Error Handling

This release adds image layer export, build rebuild/retry capabilities, and numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

✨ Features

📤Image Layer Export: Export image layer analysis as JSON file or copy to clipboard
🎬Image Switch Transitions: Smooth fade animations when switching between images in layer analysis, with staggered row entry effects
🔄Build Rebuild: Rebuild any previous build directly from build history with pre-filled parameters
🔁Build Retry: Retry failed builds without re-entering configuration

🐛 Bug Fixes

🔨Build Error Detection: Fixed build failures not being properly detected, causing subsequent builds to immediately fail with stale errors
🔍Build Error Details: Extracted detailed error messages from Docker stream errors instead of showing generic "Docker stream error"
📺Build Error Display: Build errors now display directly in the terminal log with a separator, instead of only showing a toast notification
📁Dockerfile Validation: Rebuild now validates Dockerfile existence and shows a warning when the file is missing
🔄Stale Layer Data: Fixed stale layer data displaying briefly when switching images
🛡️Inspect Isolation: Image inspect failure no longer blocks layer history loading
🐳Image Import: File read errors are now properly reported instead of being silently ignored

⚡ Performance

🐳Image Export/Import: Streaming I/O for large image export and import, significantly reducing memory usage
📊Dashboard Stats: Parallelized container stats queries, dramatically faster with many running containers

🎨 Improvements

🔔Updater Notification: Streamlined update flow and refined notification styling with i18n support
📭Empty States: Container, image, network, and volume tables now show domain-specific icons when empty
📱Responsive Layout: Template stats grid adapts to smaller window sizes

3v3.9.2Feb 07, 2026

App Log Viewer Revamp

This release replaces the xterm.js terminal with a custom HTML-based log viewer, adding powerful filtering and export capabilities.

✨ Features

📋App Log Viewer Revamp: Replaced xterm.js terminal with a custom HTML-based log viewer
🔍 Keyword search with debounced filtering
🏷️ Level filter toolbar (All/Trace/Debug/Info/Warn/Error) for quick log isolation
📄 Log detail dialog with full message view and copy support
📤 Export filtered logs to `.log` file
🎚️ Runtime log level control with persistent settings

🐛 Bug Fixes

💬Tooltip Flicker: Fixed tooltip repeatedly showing/hiding when Select dropdown is open

3v3.9.1Feb 05, 2026

Quick Search for Lists

This release adds instant search across containers, networks, and volumes for faster filtering.

✨ Features

Quick Search: Instantly filter containers, networks, and volumes by name, ID, image, status, driver, and more
Real-time Filtering: Results update as you type with a clear button for quick reset

3v3.9.0Feb 03, 2026

Terminal Settings & Volume File Browser

This release introduces terminal customization options and a powerful file browser for Docker volumes.

✨ Features

Terminal Settings: Configure default shell (`sh`, `bash`, `zsh`) and user for container terminals
Unified Settings Dialog: Combined terminal command and theme settings into a single tabbed dialog
Volume File Browser: Browse, upload, and download files directly inside any Docker volume
🔍 Click "Browse Files" in the Volume actions menu to explore volume contents
📤 Upload files or folders to any directory within the volume
📥 Download files or entire folders from the volume
🖱️ Right-click on empty space to access upload/download actions for current directory

3v3.7.0Jan 30, 2026

Event History & Virtualization

This release introduces persistent event history, a unified toolbar, and performance improvements for the Events page.

✨ Features

Event History Persistence: Docker events are now automatically saved to local file and persist across app restarts
Unified Event Toolbar: All filters consolidated into a single toolbar with search, custom type/action filters, and time range selection
Enhanced Export: Export events as TXT or JSON with dedicated dropdown menu

🎨 Improvements

Virtualized Event List: Rebuilt Events page with virtualization for smooth handling of thousands of events with infinite scroll
Connection Status: Real-time Docker event stream connection indicator with pause/resume support
Animated Sidebar: Smoother expand/collapse animations for sidebar navigation items

3v3.6.0Jan 26, 2026

Templates, Docker Run & Batch Operations

This release introduces stack templates, Docker Run command parsing, and comprehensive batch operations for resource management.

✨ Features

Template Management: Added stack templates support with migrations, UI, and API integration
Docker Run Parsing: Import and parse Docker Run commands with enhanced UI integration
Remote Host Support: Dynamic `DOCKER_HOST` management and Docker CLI availability checks for Compose features
Batch Operations: Multi-select batch delete for Images, Networks, and Volumes with unified batch toolbar

🎨 Improvements

Logs Viewer Revamp: Virtualized log list with follow/pause, load-more history, new-log indicator, and status bar
Logs Filtering: Keyword/regex filtering with highlight and quick clear/reset shortcuts
Logs Export & Copy: Export logs as TXT/JSON and copy filtered results with large-selection confirmation

3v3.5.1Jan 18, 2026

Remote Docker Connectivity

This release enhances remote Docker connectivity with TCP support and improved connection configuration.

✨ Features

Custom Docker Socket Paths: Support custom Docker socket paths (optional) and remote connections via SSH socket forwarding
TCP Connection Support: Connect to Docker daemon via TCP address

🎨 Improvements

Connection & Settings UX: Improved connection-related configuration and persistence, with refined i18n copy
UI & Performance: Optimized rendering and interactions across Containers, Dashboard, and Events pages

3v3.5.0Jan 13, 2026

Settings & Remote Host Improvements

This release introduces a dedicated settings page for Docker configuration and enhances remote host management.

✨ Features

Settings Page: Docker socket path configuration with browse, validation, and reset options
Sidebar Enhancement: Collapsed sidebar dropdown menu with theme, language, and settings access
Remote Host Support: Hide unsupported compose commands (Up, Stop, Restart, Pull) for remote connections

🎨 Improvements

Connection Failed Dialog: Dedicated localhost connection error dialog
Sidebar Containers: Show only running containers in navigation
Connection Verification: Clear cached client on connection failure

🐛 Bug Fixes

Image Operations: Respect custom socket path
Navigation: Fix disabled state logic for running container count

3v3.4.0Jan 5, 2026

Docker Compose View

This release introduces comprehensive Docker Compose project management with grouped container views and full lifecycle control.

✨ Features

Docker Compose View: Added grouped container view with Docker Compose project support
📦 Toggle between flat list view and grouped view by Compose projects
🎯 Compose project cards with status indicators and running container counts
📂 Collapsible Standalone Containers section for non-Compose containers
Compose Project Actions: Full Docker Compose lifecycle management
▶️ Up: Start Compose projects with detached mode
⏹️ Stop: Stop running Compose projects
🔄 Restart: Restart Compose projects
📥 Pull: Pull latest images for Compose projects
🗑️ Remove: Remove Compose projects with confirmation dialog
Compose Global Options: Support for all Docker Compose CLI options
`-f, --file`: Custom compose configuration files
`--env-file`: Environment variable files
`--profile`: Compose profiles
`--progress`: Progress output type (auto/tty/plain/json/quiet)
`--dry-run`: Dry run mode
Compose Remove Dialog: Confirmation dialog with severity warnings
⚠️ Warning display for irreversible operations
📊 Container count indicator
🗃️ Option to remove associated volumes

🎨 Improvements

Refresh Button: Fixed refresh to update both containers and Compose projects
Loading States: Added loading indicators for all Compose operations with toast notifications
Orphaned Compose Projects: Support for removing Compose projects even when compose file is deleted

3v3.3.0Jan 4, 2026

Image Size Analysis

This release introduces a comprehensive image layer size analysis feature for deeper Docker image inspection.

✨ Features

Image Size Analysis: Added image layer size analysis page with detailed breakdown of layer sizes
Visual Size Distribution: Interactive size distribution bar showing layer proportions with color-coded blocks for easy visualization
Layer Details Table: Detailed layer table with expand/collapse functionality for viewing full Dockerfile commands
Collapsible Distribution Panel: Distribution panel that transforms to a vertical bar when collapsed for a compact view

3v3.2.0Jan 1, 2026

Terminal, Dark Mode & i18n Enhancements

This release introduces terminal customization, comprehensive dark mode support, and internationalization improvements.

✨ Features

Terminal Theme Picker: Enhanced terminal settings dialog with organized layout, color theme section title, and hidden cursor in theme previews

🎨 Improvements

Dark Mode Support: Added comprehensive dark mode support across the entire application for better visual comfort

🌐 Internationalization

i18n Support: Implemented comprehensive internationalization for image building, host management, connection status messages, and all table columns

3v3.1.0Dec 30, 2025

Container Creation & UI Enhancements

This release introduces comprehensive container creation capabilities and significant UI improvements across the application.

✨ Features

Container Creation: Added comprehensive container creation dialog with dual input modes: - 📝 Form-based configuration for guided container setup - 💻 Docker command input mode with parsing and generation support
Dashboard System Info: Added system information component displaying Docker version, OS, architecture, and resource limits
Sidebar Collapsible Sections: Implemented collapsible navigation sections with: - 🔢 Container count badges with transition animations - 🎬 Smooth expand/collapse animations using Motion - 📌 Selected items remain visible when collapsed
Docker Build Command: Added Docker build command generation and parsing functionality
Container Refresh: Added dedicated refresh button to container list header

🎨 Improvements

Table Scrolling & Sticky Headers: Improved table layouts across all pages (Image, Container, Network, Volume, Events) with: - 📌 Fixed sticky table headers during scroll - 📏 Proper height calculations to prevent page-level scrolling - 🎯 Consistent border rendering
Sidebar Navigation: Enhanced sidebar styling with Motion animations for item transitions
Resource Charts: Refactored CPU usage and resource charts with improved component structure
Dashboard Layout: Improved card layout and number formatting
Build Dialog: Enhanced form layout with better padding and spacing
Network Mode: Replaced text input with select component for network mode selection
Docker Command UX: Improved docker command input styling and user experience

🐛 Bug Fixes

Stats Data Handling: Fixed NaN and undefined values in Network and Disk widgets to display as 0
Volume Dialog: Fixed volume name overflow in removal confirmation dialog
Events Row Expand: Fixed expanded row jumping to new data when events update by using stable row IDs
Events Monitor Cleanup: Fixed stale pending events and timeout not being cleared when stopping event monitor

⚡ Performance

Events Page: Optimized event updates with batched throttling (200ms) and reduced max events from 5000 to 500

3v3.0.1Dec 10, 2025

Event Table Enhancements

This release improves the Docker events table with new action buttons and better UI consistency.

✨ Features

Event Table Actions: Added action buttons to event table with Copy JSON and Remove event options

🎨 Improvements

Badge Truncation: Improved Badge component display - text inside Badge now truncates with ellipsis instead of Badge being clipped
Event Table UI: Refactored event table structure with pinned action column for consistent layout

3v3.0.0Dec 8, 2025

Docker Events & Container File Browser

This release introduces real-time Docker event monitoring and a comprehensive file browser for Docker containers.

✨ Features

Docker Events Monitoring: Added real-time Docker event listening with comprehensive event filtering, search, and JSON details dialog for inspecting event data
Container File Browser: Implemented file system explorer for Docker containers with: - 🌳 File tree navigation with dynamic loading - 📂 Folder upload and download support (tar-based) - 📄 Single file upload and download with mode preservation - 🔗 Symlink support for file listings - 📄 Pagination for large directories - 📋 Context menus for file/folder operations (Download, Copy Path, View Properties)

🐛 Bug Fixes

Build Log Host Switch: Fixed build records to properly associate with SSH connections, enabling correct host switching for build logs

🎨 Improvements

SSH Docker Socket Forwarding: Enhanced Docker socket forwarding with improved connection status tracking
Events Table UI: Improved event filtering, table layout, column sizing, and action badge styling
Code Block Selection: Enhanced code block selection and styling for better readability src="/screenshots/readme/file.png" alt="Container File Browser" />

2v2.4.0Dec 1, 2025

Docker Image Build & Logs

This release introduces Docker image building capabilities and detailed build log playback.

✨ Features:

Image Build: Added Docker image build capability
Build Logs: Implemented build logs playback functionality src="/screenshots/readme/build-log-history.png" alt="Build Log History" />

2v2.3.0Nov 9, 2025

Docker Network & Volume Management

This release introduces comprehensive Docker network and volume management capabilities, along with enhanced image management features.

✨ Features:

Docker Network Management: Added comprehensive Docker network management functionality, including list, inspect, create, remove, and connect networks
Docker Volume Management: Implemented complete Docker volume lifecycle management with support for list, inspect, create, remove, and prune operations
Docker Image Management: Added comprehensive image management functionality including delete, inspect, search, build, and prune operations
Image Tag Management: Support for adding, removing, and importing image tags to enhance image management flexibility
Image Import and Export: Implemented image file import and export functionality with file dialog support
Image Registry Links: Support for opening Docker Hub, GHCR, GCR, and Quay registry links directly

🎨 Improvements:

Enhanced Table Features: Added column sorting, column resizing, and column pinning for network and volume tables
Table Performance Optimization: Optimized network table rendering performance through column memoization to reduce unnecessary re-renders
UI Style Improvements: Improved container status badge styling with enhanced visual differentiation, optimized table cell vertical spacing for better readability, enhanced pinned column styles and hover states, and improved table header background color for better visual hierarchy
Enhanced Search Input: Added loading state indicator for image search input with improved user feedback
Image Actions Menu: Added loading state to image actions menu button for better async operation UX
Navigation Improvements: Updated navigation icons and breadcrumb route configuration
Table Column Layout: Improved network and volume table column layouts for better usability and visual consistency

2v2.2.0Oct 12, 2025

Auto-Update & Code Signing

This update introduces automatic update functionality and enhances security with code signing for macOS.

New Features:

Auto-Update: Added automatic update functionality to keep Dockerman up-to-date with the latest features and improvements.

Improvements:

macOS Code Signing: macOS installation packages are now code-signed for enhanced security and trust.

2v2.1.1May 5, 2025

Container Animation Enhancement

2v2.0.1Apr 19, 2025

Performance Monitoring Improvement

This update addresses an issue with CPU usage display in the monitoring interface.

Bug Fixes:

CPU Monitoring Fix: Resolved an issue with abnormal CPU usage percentage display in the performance monitoring dashboard.

2v2.0.0Apr 13, 2025

Remote Management & Host Support

This release introduces SSH functionality for managing remote Docker instances and adds a host management page.

New Features:

SSH Remote Management: Added the ability to connect and manage remote Docker instances via SSH.
Host Management Page: Introduced a host management page allowing users to add, modify, and delete remote host connection details.

1v1.0.2Feb 8, 2025

Container Management Enhancement

This update introduces a new manual refresh capability for container management:

Updates:

Manual Refresh: Added a refresh button for Containers section that appears on hover, allowing users to manually update container status

1v1.0.1Feb 5, 2025

Windows Platform Improvements

This update focuses on several optimizations and fixes for the Windows platform:

Updates:

Display Fix: Resolved an issue where the application window wasn't displaying on Windows systems
Interface Enhancement: Added Control Bar functionality for Windows version
Visual Update: Refreshed Windows application icon for better visual experience

1v1.0.0Feb 4, 2025

First Official Release

We're excited to announce the first official release of Dockerman - a modern, lightweight Docker management UI that brings powerful performance and simplicity to container management.

Core Features:

Dashboard Overview: Get instant access to container and image statistics, with real-time monitoring of resource usage and container status updates.
Container Management: Comprehensive container controls with detailed inspection capabilities, integrated terminal access, and real-time resource monitoring.
Image Management: Efficient image handling with detailed size analytics, tag information, and usage tracking.
Resource Monitoring: Real-time visualization of CPU usage, memory consumption, network statistics, and block I/O performance.
System Integration: Native integration with Docker daemon providing superior performance and reliability.

Key Highlights:

Powerful Performance: Built with Tauri for exceptional speed and minimal resource footprint.
Terminal Integration: Built-in terminal access for direct container interaction.
Process Management: Real-time process list viewing and monitoring.
Log Viewer: Advanced log viewing capabilities with real-time updates.
Security Focus: Local-only operation ensuring your container data stays secure.