Pulse v5.0.0-rc.4

✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-18 19:11:50 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #59

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

What's Changed in RC4

🐛 Bug Fixes

Storage & Agents:

• Fix zpool binary detection on TrueNAS SCALE - resolves ZFS storage over-reporting
• Agent download now serves correct architecture binary
• Skip deprecated pulse-sensor-proxy for v5+ installations
• Backup matching uses instance+VMID to prevent cross-instance collisions

Host Agent Identity:

• Host agent avoids identity collisions with MAC fallback
• Keep host IDs stable via token+hostname binding
• Avoid host ID collisions and prefer LAN IP

UI/UX:

• Guest URL icon now appears/disappears immediately after AI sets/removes it
• Add CPU tooltip to VM/LXC rows in Proxmox Overview
• AI model selector dropdown overflow fix on small screens
• Improve AI settings UX with validation and smart fallbacks

Configuration & Security:

• OIDC env vars no longer ignored when no oidc.enc file exists
• Prevent orphaned encrypted data when encryption key is deleted
• Avoid deadlock when saving empty nodes config
• Allow printable ASCII in alert IDs for acknowledge requests

✨ Features

• Collapsible accordion sections in thresholds UI
• Tool/function calling support for Ollama provider
• Linux agent archives in releases with version mismatch detection
• Configurable backup freshness thresholds
• Improved cluster endpoint error messages
• Wildcard support for kube namespace include/exclude flags
• Kubernetes init containers detection improvements
• Simplified agent installation UI

🧪 Testing

• Stabilized core E2E tests
• Expanded AI provider and agent test coverage

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0-rc.4

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0-rc.4

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

helm-chart-5.0.0-rc.4

Helm chart for deploying the Pulse hub and optional Docker monitoring agent.

Pulse v5.0.0-rc.3

✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-16 09:55:51 UTC
Workflow: Validate Release Assets #64

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

What's New in v5.0.0-rc.3

🎨 UI Improvements

• AI Settings page is now more compact and user-friendly - Unconfigured providers are collapsed by default, advanced model selection is hidden behind an accordion, and the overall layout is more streamlined

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Security: Fixed misleading DISABLE_AUTH error message - now shows actual backend error
• AI providers: Fixed model name normalization - provider prefix is now correctly stripped from all models
• Ollama: Added fallback default model when model selection is empty
• Ollama: Fixed URL normalization to prevent 405 errors with trailing slashes

✨ Features

• AI Settings: Improved first-time setup UX with better provider configuration flow

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0-rc.3

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0-rc.3

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

helm-chart-5.0.0-rc.3

Helm chart for deploying the Pulse hub and optional Docker monitoring agent.

Pulse v5.0.0-rc.2

✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-15 14:47:43 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #49

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

Bug Fixes

• AI Settings: Fix Ollama model configuration - use configured provider's default model when no model explicitly set (#847)
• AI Settings: Fix Ollama URL not being sent when using default localhost address
• AI Settings: Allow enabling AI when any provider is configured (not just Anthropic)
• Sensor Proxy: Skip prerelease versions in selfheal update check - prevents stable installations from downloading RC versions (#849)
• Sensor Proxy: Skip selfheal reinstall when service is already healthy - reduces unnecessary Pulse restarts
• Sensor Proxy: Prevent installer hang on control-plane sync
• Sensor Proxy: Add timeouts to pmxcfs operations in installer
• Agent: Use /etc/machine-id in LXC containers to avoid ID collisions
• Agent: Stop running agent before TrueNAS reinstall to avoid 'text file busy' error
• UI: Add CPU tooltip to Proxmox Overview (#816)
• UI: Apply threshold-based coloring to memory bars
• Docker: Truncate long image names in container table

Documentation

• Fix Docker socket mount path for standalone sensor proxy

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0-rc.2

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0-rc.2

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

helm-chart-5.0.0-rc.2

Helm chart for deploying the Pulse hub and optional Docker monitoring agent.

Pulse v5.0.0-rc.1

✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-14 17:59:40 UTC
Workflow: Validate Release Assets #62

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

Pulse v5.0.0-rc.1 - Release Candidate

This is a release candidate for testing. Please report any issues you encounter. Production users should wait for the stable v5.0.0 release.

Major Features in 5.0

AI-Powered Monitoring

Pulse 5.0 introduces an optional AI assistant that brings intelligent monitoring to your infrastructure:

• Natural Language Queries - Ask questions about your infrastructure in plain English
• Patrol Service - Automated health checks with configurable schedules
• Auto-Fix Capability - AI can diagnose and remediate issues automatically (opt-in)
• Predictive Intelligence - Failure pattern detection and anomaly identification
• Multi-Resource Correlation - Detect cascading issues across your infrastructure
• Baseline Learning - Learns normal behavior to identify deviations
• Cost Tracking - Monitor AI API usage with budget controls

Kubernetes Support

Native Kubernetes cluster monitoring is now built-in:

• Monitor pods, deployments, services, and nodes
• Namespace filtering and resource sorting
• Column picker for customizable views
• Real-time cluster health status

Multi-Platform Unified Agent

A single agent binary now supports multiple platforms with automatic detection:

• Auto-Detection - Automatically enables Docker, Kubernetes, or Proxmox monitoring
• Multi-Host Tokens - One API token can register multiple hosts
• Linux, macOS, Windows - Cross-platform support
• Linked Host Agents - Host agents automatically link to PVE nodes

Streamlined Setup Experience

The new Setup Wizard makes getting started easier:

• Simplified 3-step onboarding (Welcome, Security, Complete)
• Guided agent installation with platform auto-detection
• Auto-generated install commands with token management

Additional Improvements

Performance

• Optimized Dashboard guest sorting and parent node lookups
• Debounced search across Kubernetes, Backups, and Storage views
• Reduced UI re-renders and improved responsiveness

UI/UX Enhancements

• Redesigned Ceph, Replication, and Mail Gateway pages
• Enhanced settings panels with better visual hierarchy
• Security posture summary with score indicator
• Navigation tabs auto-hide when no data is available

Proxmox Enhancements

• Proxmox 9.1+ OCI container support
• Cluster-aware guest deduplication
• Linked host agent badges on PVE nodes

Security and Reliability

• WebSocket authentication via API token
• OIDC toggle improvements
• Improved agent token lifecycle management

Breaking Changes

None expected. This is designed as a seamless upgrade from 4.x.

Feedback

This is a release candidate. Please test thoroughly and report issues at:
https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/issues

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this major release!

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0-rc.1

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0-rc.1

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

Pulse v4.36.2

✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-03 22:49:41 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #44

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

What's New

Features

• Add "Skip certificate verification" option for agent install commands

Fixes

• TrueNAS SCALE 24.04+: Handle read-only /usr/local/bin (#801)
• TrueNAS: Fix noexec issues with /data partition (#801)
• TrueNAS: Improve detection for immutable filesystem installs (#801)
• Truncate very long container names in Docker table (#789)
• Filter container overlay mounts in non-standard locations
• sensor-proxy: Default HTTP to 0.0.0.0:8443 for IPv4 binding
• sensor-proxy: Handle --http-addr with bind address in installer

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:4.36.2

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:4.36.2

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

Pulse v4.36.1

✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-03 09:41:28 UTC
Workflow: Validate Release Assets #60

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

What's New

Features

• Offline buffering for host and docker agents - data preserved during network outages
• Health/metrics server for unified agent
• Refresh-cluster button to detect new Proxmox cluster members
• 'Needs Backup' filter on Dashboard
• Connection lost indicators on Storage, Hosts, Docker, Backups, and Replication pages

Fixes

• Sensor-proxy installer failing silently on containers without snapshots (#780)
• --disable-host flag now correctly disables host monitoring
• Update Channel setting not persisting after save
• Memory bar showing 100% width instead of actual percentage
• Backup indicator being reset when VMs/Containers are re-polled
• Agent type badge flapping in UnifiedAgents view
• Disabled storage status not showing correctly from Proxmox
• Settings sidebar now starts expanded for discoverability
• Docker drawer width constrained to force card wrapping
• Filter virtual/system filesystems from host disk display
• Deadlock in alert cancellation
• Alert system race conditions and memory leaks

Security

• Add request body size limits to API handlers

Agents

• Use --ctid instead of --standalone --http-mode in quick-setup command

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:4.36.1

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:4.36.1

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

Pulse v4.36.0

✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-01 23:33:19 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #42

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

What's New

Fixes

• Fix cluster nodes staying degraded permanently after transient failures (#754)
• Fix storage timeout errors incorrectly marking cluster nodes unhealthy (#754)
• Fix memory bar width not scaling correctly
• Fix backup status indicator not showing for guests
• Fix Docker expanded drawer cards being cut off
• Fix host agent type badge flapping in UI
• Fix sensor-proxy installer to download latest release by default
• Fix SSH key collision when installing sensor-proxy on multiple cluster nodes
• Fix outdated error message for removed Docker hosts
• Add rp1_adc to CPU chip detection in sensors parser
• Add timeout to pmxcfs operations in sensor-proxy installer

Other

• Extensive test coverage improvements

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:4.36.0

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:4.36.0

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.