Up CLI Release Notes

v0.44.0

Release Date: 2025-12-19

Breaking Changes

• --dry-run is no longer a global flag. All commands that previously respected --dry-run still accept it, so there is no behavioral change.

What's Changed

• Added up resource count to collect resource counts from a control plane.
• Made QR code generation in up login optional and disabled it by default. This fixes device code input in some terminals.
• Added up support-bundle for collecting and inspecting support bundles from control planes.
• Added support for --init-resources and --extra-resources in up project run. This allows pull secrets and other configuration to be created when running a project.
• Added support for private git repositories in project API dependencies.
• Overhauled our input and output system. Tables and spinners are prettier, interactive inputs are more reliable, and there should be fewer output glitches in general.

v0.43.0

Release Date: 2025-11-25

What's Changed

• Added new commands for up space license: apply, show, and remove
• Project apiDependencies can now be used for all Providers to generate language schemas
• Added support for Spaces 1.15

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Operation Tests when using Python Functions
• Fixed an issue when installing Upbound Spaces to pass basic auth credentials to OCI registries

Breaking Changes

• Embedded Functions for Python need to update how they access resources from request - protobuf .resource fields with struct_to_dict from the SDK after updating to function-sdk-python v0.9.0. See reference PR

v0.42.1

Release Date: 2025-11-04

What's Changed

• Added support for Go and go-templating as test languages in up project init.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues in the go-templating test implementation that prevented it from executing templates correctly.

v0.42.0

Release Date: 2025-10-31

What's Changed

• Added support for building composition tests and e2e tests using Go and go-templating.
• Added support for remote Docker daemons in up composition render and up test run.
• Added support for Crossplane v2 in Spaces. up project run and up test run now use v2 control planes by default for running and testing v2alpha1 projects.
• Added support for packaging ManagedResourceActivationPolicy resources in up project build.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed assorted filesystem issues on Windows.

v0.41.0

Release Date: 2025-09-10

Breaking Changes

• The up alpha migration commands have been removed. The stable version of these commands is available as up controlplane migration.
• Flag and environment variable defaults specified in the base field of a configuration profile are no longer respected.

What's Changed

• Test cleanup: when a test fails or is interrupted, up test run --e2e now cleans up resources created by test and prints a summary of any resources that could not be deleted.
• Added up operation render to allow manual testing of operations.
• Introduced operation tests to allow automated testing of operations.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed visual differentiation between selectable and unselectable items in the interactive mode of up ctx.
• Debian packages now contain binaries for the correct architecture.

v0.40.3

Release Date: 2025-08-21

• Telemetry improvements and bug fixes

v0.40.2

Release Date: 2025-08-19

• Telemetry improvements and bug fixes

v0.40.1

Release Date: 2025-08-13

Bug Fixes

• Migration: Fixed handling of ManagedResourceDefinitions, ManagedResourceActivationPolicies, and Licenses.
• Fixed a race condition in up dependency add and up composition generate that could result in transient failure to parse the project file.

v0.40.0

Release Date: 2025-08-12

What's Changed

• AI Integration: Added up project ai configure-tools command for AI-assisted configuration generation
• API Connector: Introduced up api-connector CLI for managing API connections
• UXP Management:
  • Added up uxp license show, apply, and management commands
  • Added up uxp web-ui open, enable, and disable commands for web UI management
  • Support for development licenses and license validation improvements
• Project:
  • Added up project init Improved project initialization with new wizard flow and templates
  • Added up project run --local command for local control planes
  • Added up project stop command for tearing down control planes
  • Added up operation generate for operation functions
  • Improved package readiness detection with RuntimeHealthy condition
  • Support for Upbound AddOns installation
• Authentication:
  • Added up ctp oidc-auth aws for OIDC authentication support
• Dependencies:
  • Enhanced up dep add to support controllers, addons and API dependencies
• Migration:
  • Promoted: up ctp migration migration commands out of alpha status
• Telemetry:
  • Integrated telemetry and tracing
• XRD Support:
  • Added support for Crossplane V2 XRDs
• Schema Generation:
  • Enhanced schema generators for Go, Python, KCL and Go-Templating
  • Support for Kubernetes Core resource schemas
  • Support for Crossplane Core resource schemas
• Testing:
  • Enhanced up test with initResources
  • Added functionCredentialsPath to composition test schema

Bug Fixes

• Fixed recursion errors when serializing Kubernetes objects with JSON fields
• Resolved panic in test scenarios when items are variables
• Fixed symlink handling for Windows
• Fixed issues with duplicate file paths in up project run
• Improved error handling and session expiry checks for logged-in users
• Fixed bugs in package readiness detection

Breaking Changes

• Projects v1alpha1 now require Crossplane >=v1.19
• Projects v1alpha2 now require Crossplane >=v2.0.0
• Context required for logout command
• Schemas: Python enum fields as literal
• xpls: Compositions using patch and transform are no longer supported

v0.39.1

Release Date: 2025-06-27

What's Changed

• up xpkg append: Added a --single-image option and support for converting image layers to an OCI image index (Crossplane Configurations).
• up test: Fixed a panic in Python test scenarios when items are passed as variables.
• up test: Resolved recursion errors when serializing Kubernetes objects with embedded JSON fields.
• up test: Added support for initResources in e2eTest definitions and improved error reporting by surfacing permanent errors.
• up space mirror: Updated mirror support for compatibility with Spaces 1.13.
• up ctx: Added support for custom CA bundles via a new --ca-bundle option, improving compatibility in proxy environments such as Zscaler.

v0.39.0

Release Date: 2025-04-25

What's Changed

• Added support for building functions using Go templating.
• Dependencies in private Marketplace repositories can now be fetched without the Upbound Docker credential helper configured.
• Added support for testing project changes using Control Plane Simulations.
• up dep commands now require fully-qualified package paths. This eliminates ambiguity and avoids using docker.io as the default registry.
• Added support for replacing the container images used as part of project builds, so project tools can be used without access to xpkg.upbound.io and images can be customized.
• Bug fixes and UX improvements.

v0.38.4

Release Date: 2025-03-21

What's Changed

• Fixed up render searching observed resources
• Robot tokens now supported for up project

v0.38.3

Release Date: 2025-03-18

What's Changed

• Stabalize E2E test suite

v0.38.2

Release Date: 2025-03-17

What's Changed

• Fixed up test and up project run compatibility with Crossplane 1.19.
• Added the ability to login with an Upbound Robot Token.
• Bug fixes and improvements in up test and up project build.

v0.38.1

Release Date: 2025-03-11

What's Changed

• Removed dependency on the go binary for generation of Go models.
• Updated name generation for array field types in Go models to avoid name collisions.
• Updated KCL function generation to avoid duplicate import names.
• Updated go test to pass through environment variables prefixed with UP_ to tests written in KCL and Python.
• Fixed a panic in up test when a timeout was not specified.
• Improvements for up migration when mcp-connector is in use.

Breaking Changes

• Some type names in the Go models have changed to avoid naming conflicts. Go functions using these fields will fail to compile during up project build and require an update.

v0.38.0

Release Date: 2025-03-04

What's Changed

• Go is now a supported language for embedded functions in projects.
• New up test commands introduced to allow for automated testing of compositions, including those that use embedded functions. Test cases can be written in YAML, Python, or KCL.
• Embedded KCL functions now use KCL v0.11.2.
• Commands that interact with private repositories in the Upbound Marketplace no longer require docker-credential-up to be configured.
• Bug fixes and UX improvements.

Breaking Changes

• The short alias -d for the --cache-dir flag in various commands has been removed.

v0.37.1

Release Date: 2025-02-13

What's Changed

• Improve performance and silence unnecessary warning messages in up composition render.
• Ensure the --project-file flag works consistently across project commands.
• Minor bug fixes.

v0.37.0

Release Date: 2025-01-30

What's Changed

• New up composition render command introduced to allow for local testing of compositions including those that use embedded functions.
• Configuration is now profile-centric (see Breaking Changes below).
• up profile use restores the last-used Kubeconfig context for the selected profile.
• up profile config is deprecated and its functionality will be removed in a future release.
• Kubeconfig flags are handled consistently across commands.
• "Account" renamed to "Organization" in configuration and flags, since the value must be an Upbound organization name.
• Bug fixes and UX improvements.

Breaking Changes

• Creating a configuration profile is now required.
• Users of disconnected Spaces must now create a disconnected configuration profile for each disconnected Space they interact with.
• up ctx is now profile-specific. Only contexts belonging to a given profile's organization or disconnected Space can be accessed when that profile is active.

v0.36.4

Release Date: January 10th, 2025.

What's Changed

• Updated base image for Python functions in projects.

v0.36.3

Release Date: January 7th, 2025.

What's Changed

• Starting with Spaces v1.10.0, up space init now supports ingress SSL passthrough during installation.
• Removed the unused clusterType field from Helm values in up space init for Spaces v1.10.0.

v0.36.2

Release Date: December 19th, 2024.

What's Changed

• Spaces Mirror: Fixed an issue affecting private registries when using registry flags introduced in v0.36.0.
• Added a new flag to the up project run command, enabling projects to be run in production control planes.

v0.36.1

Release Date: December 3rd, 2024.

What's Changed

• Resolved the IsNotFound error encountered in up project run for existing repositories.

v0.36.0

Release Date: November 28th, 2024.

What's Changed

• Enhanced the ingress cache to ensure concurrency safety for more stable and efficient operations.
• User organization is now validated during login, offering better security and a smoother user flow.
• Default values for apiVersion and kind have been added in Python schemas to streamline development.
• The up dep update command now processes updates in parallel, significantly reducing update times.
• Projects started in MCP now inherit the parent Space context, ensuring better alignment and continuity.
• up space mirror Added registry flags to provide more control and flexibility when managing mirrors.
• The embedded function KCL base image has been upgraded to v0.10.8.
• up project run Fixed issues with unsupported duplicate file paths to avoid potential conflicts.
• up project run Projects are now re-homed automatically, and repository visibility is preserved during project pushes.
• up project run Projects now load repositories into memory, improving performance and reducing disk I/O.
• up project build The Docker client environment can now be overridden with custom environment variables, offering more flexibility.
• up ctp provider,function,configuration,pull-secret Added support for installing functions and pull-secrets in CTP, expanding functionality and customization options.

v0.35.3

Release Date: November 6th, 2024.

What's Changed

• improvements for new commands introduced in v0.35.0

v0.35.2

Release Date: November 6th, 2024.

What's Changed

• improvements for new commands introduced in v0.35.0

v0.35.1

Release Date: November 6th, 2024.

What's Changed

• Made the ingress cache concurrency safe in up ctx.
• Prevented output of status fields for generated XRDs.
• Validated the user's organization during login.
• Configured projects to use the parent Space context when started in control plane.

v0.35.0

Release Date: November 6th, 2024.

What's Changed

Project Management Enhancements

• Introduced new commands:
  • up project init, build, push, run, and move
  • up example generate
  • up xrd generate
  • up composition generate
  • up function generate

https://docs.upbound.io/core-concepts/projects/

Dependency Management

• Enhanced the xpkg dep command to handle function dependencies and group dependencies effectively
• Added validation and examples for dependency handling

Improvements

• Supported installation of mcp-connectors and cloudnative-pg from xpkg.upbound.io
• Improved error messages for unreachable spaces and unusable contexts in up ctx.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed function name validation and schema handling errors.
• Improved dependency checks for projects and configurations.

Breaking Changes

• Deprecated xpkg in favor of enhanced project workflows.

v0.34.2

Release Date: October 17th, 2024.

What's Changed

• Use spaces-config configmap to validate spaces in up space attach

v0.34.1

Release Date: October 10th, 2024.

What's Changed

• update up alpha space mirror corresponding images

v0.34.0

Release Date: October 7th, 2024.

What's Changed

• Reduced verbosity of logging
• Install agent from the xpkg.upbound.io registry
• Require username and password for agent chart installation.
• Added cloudnative-pg as a dependency and updated query to v1alpha2.
• Removed the "healthy" column from up ctp get/list.
• Ensured up ctx always uses the spaces ingress.

v0.33.0

Release Date: September 3rd, 2024.

What's Changed

• Update up space init update for 1.7.0 release OCI Registry change to xpkg.upbound.io/spaces-artifacts
• Update up alpha space mirror update for 1.7.0 release
• Update up ctp connector install using now OCI Registry xpkg.upbound.io/spaces-artifacts
• Improve up ctp list/get show healthy column and read message from status for CTP
• Improve up alpha query print right kind with multiple resources
• Improve up xpkg dep works now with functions
• Improve up ctx writing kubeconfig to stdout with current path
• Delete up cofiguration

v0.32.0

Release Date: August 2nd, 2024.

What's Changed

• New up team command for managing teams.
• New up robot team command for managing robot team membership.
• New up repository permission command for managing team access to repositories.
• up space attach and up space detach have been renamed to up space connect and up space disconnect, respectively.
• Improved up alpha get and up alpha query commands for querying resources in and across control planes.

v0.31.0

Release Date: June 7th, 2024.

note

• Web-based login (previously up alpha web-login) is now the default for up login. Use up login --username=<user> to invoke interactive terminal login.
• up configuration is now stubbed out, since Configurations are not currently supported in Upbound.

What's Changed

• Web login is now the default for up login.
• up ctx now works with connected Spaces.
• up ctx now supports navigating between cloud, connected, and disconnected Spaces regardless of the current kubeconfig context.
• up space attach now works with Upbound IAM.

v0.30.0

Release Date: May 10th, 2024.

What's Changed

• We promoted up web-login to stable.
• We fixed several bugs related to up ctx failing to connect to a Space, group, or control plane.
• up version now prints information separated into client (your up CLI version) and server (version information for the control plane and Space you're connected to)
• up space init enables hub authz and authn by default.

v0.29.0

Release Date: May 3rd, 2024.

note

This release contains an important breaking change that affects how users gain access to the API server of their control planes.

For users who've deployed MCPs to Upbound prior to April 30th, 2024 (on our 'legacy GCP Space'), to connect to those MCPs you must use up ver <= v0.28.0.

To connect to an MCP in a Cloud Space or Connected/Disconnected Space, please use up ver >= v0.29.0.

Notable Changes

• We replaced up ctp connect/disconnect and up ctp kubeconfig get with a new up ctx command.

What's Changed

• We introduced up space list to list all Cloud and Connected Spaces that exist in an organization's account.
• We added CRUD support for control plane groups with up group subcommand.
• We bumped the prerequisite version of UXP to v1.15 when using up space init to create a single-tenant Space.
• We fixed some bugs that caused up space detach to fail.
• up ctp list now derives its context according to what's been set with up ctx.
• up space init now installs opentelemetry-operator as a prerequisite.
• All commands in up now use the new up profiles and kubecontexts.

v0.28.0

Release Date: April 2nd, 2024.

What's Changed

• We added up alpha space attach and detach commands to facilitate connecting a single-tenant Space to Upbound's global console.

v0.27.0

Release Date: March 27th, 2024.

What's Changed

• We fixed a bug that caused up ctp connect to fail to connect to a control plane running in a single-tenant Space.
• We fixed a bug impacting up xpkg build against Docker 1.25

v0.26.0

Release Date: March 16th, 2023.

What's Changed

• We addedup alpha query and up alpha get commands.
• We changed up trace's arguments to align with up query and up get and fixed up/down navigation.

v0.25.0

Release Date: March 12th, 2024.

Notable Changes

• We updated up version to print client and server side versions.
• We improved the UX of up ctp connect/disconnect. Connect now gracefully handles different context names and allows repeated connect attempts.

What's Changed

• We fixed an issue in up migration that restored package statuses.
• up migration now uses the same confirmation dialog as up space init
• We improved the UX of up ctp connect/disconnect. Connect now gracefully handles different context names and allows repeated connect attempts.
• We unified the experience between up ctp connect and up ctp kubeconfig get.
• We added alpha trace and alpha tview template commands.
• We updated up version to print client and server side versions.

v0.24.2

Release Date: February 29th, 2024.

What's Changed

• This version includes some configuration tweaks for Crossplane and providers that is installed as prerequisites with the up space init command.

v0.24.1

Release Date: February 7th, 2024.

What's Changed

• We fixed an issue in up migration that restored package statuses.
• up migration now uses the same confirmation dialog as up space init

v0.24.0

Release Date: February 1st, 2024.

What's Changed

• We introduced up alpha web-login, a preview feature to allow web-based authentication to Upbound from up.

v0.23.0

Release Date: February 1st, 2024.

What's Changed

• Updated component prerequisite versions for an Upbound Space.
• We fixed an issue where up migration didn't wait for PackageRevisions to be healthy in order to complete a successful migration.
• Space subcommands now respect control plane groups.

v0.22.1

Release Date: January 30th, 2024.

What's Changed

• Updated component prerequisite versions for an Upbound Space.

v0.22.0

Release Date: January 30th, 2024.

Notable Changes

• New up alpha migration commands to export state from a control plane and import it into an Upbound control plane.
• Allow creation of control planes without being configured to use Upbound's deployment service.

What's Changed

• Improved the help text to make up profile set space more discoverable.
• Allow creating new Upbound profiles with type: space by name.
• Fixed an issue where up space init ignored SIGINT.

v0.21.0

Release Date: October 12th, 2023.

Notable Changes

• up space init's UXP auto-installed prerequisite was updated from 1.12.2-up.2 to 1.13.2-up.2
• up ctp connect was re-introduced, with different functionality. Invoking the command will now connect your kubectl directly to the target control plane. Any kubectl commands run in that terminal will be executed against the target control plane.
• up ctp disconnect was introduced to compliment connect. Invoking the command will switch from the control plane context back to the originating context.
• up ctp connector install was extended to enable configuring mcp-connector against a Space's control plane.
• up ctp connector uninstall was introduced to compliment install. Invoking the command will delete the mcp-connector helm chart from the App Cluster.

What's Changed

• Re-introduce up ctp connect add up ctp disconnect
• Bump the UXP prereq for spaces to v1.13.2-up.2
• MCP Connector support for Spaces

v0.20.0

Release Date: October 10th, 2023.

Notable Changes

• Introduced support for the following up ctp subcommands with spaces:
  • create
  • delete
  • get
  • list
• ⚠️ Breaking change ⚠️ up ctp connect was moved to up ctp connector install. This is anticipation of future work.

What's Changed

• Add tests for auth.yaml inclusion in provider package
• Allow pre-release versions of spaces to be installed and upgraded to
• Introduce support for up ctp (create, get, list, delete) against an Upbound Space
• Move ctp connect to ctp connector install

v0.19.2

Release Date: October 5th, 2023.

What's Changed

• Fix up xpkg build not including authentication extensions for Upbound console on Provider v1

v0.19.1

Release Date: August 29th, 2023.

What's Changed

• [Backport release-0.19] Fix uxp install error "couldn't find binding"

v0.19.0

Release Date: August 28th, 2023.

Notable Changes

• New subcommands to support Upbound Spaces
• Add up space billing get with GCS support

What's Changed

• Add repeatable --debug (short -d) enabling API request logging
• Package composition function types
• Prevent deferred File.Close and wrap errors while putting CRDs into xpls provider package cache
• [DevEx] xpkg: add error contexts and print & fail on parse errors
• Add up space billing get with GCS support
• Add AWS support to up spaces billing get
• New subcommands to support Upbound Spaces
• Introduce additional requirements for the spaces install
• Adjust ingress-nginx deployment to target kind
• Spaces: add helpers for default and unattended installation
• Allow operators to override the registry and registry-endpoint for a spaces install
• Spaces: add support for public load balancer
• Add Azure support to up space billing get + provider-generic refactor
• cmd space: fix missing install.Context
• Space: improve destroy command
• space: unify and deduplicate registry flag logic
• Use concrete types with destroyCmd.Run()
• Fix typo in up space destroy output
• Rename up space billing get to export and fix event tags

v0.18.0

Release Date: June 27th, 2023.

What's Changed

• Make help more accessible
• Updates dependencies to get up close to current

v0.17.0

Release Date: May 12th, 2023.

What's Changed

• Added tab completion for two control plane commands
• Check the validity of kubeconfig before applying it
• xpkg batch subcommand to batch process provider packages

v0.16.1

Release Date: April 17th, 2023.

Notable Changes

• This patch release for v0.16.0 notably adds a contribution guide and fixes a marshaling bug when building bundled provider packages (if no controller image ref is passed).
• ⚠️ Breaking change ⚠️ With the core crossplane dependency bumped to v1.6.0 , only v1 API versions will be supported for Composition and CompositeResourceDefinition in the apiextensions.crossplane.io group. Support for v1beta1 versions was removed. Please plan to update to v1 and see the README for more details.

What's Changed

• add contribution guide that includes release process.
• Reorganize organization user commands.

v0.16.0

Release Date: March 28th, 2023.

Notable Changes

• Introduction of many new commands to coincide with the relaunch of Upbound, including many commands in ctp and cfg.
• ⚠️ Breaking change ⚠️ Starting in v0.16.0, up controlplane create must supply a required flag --configuration-name and no longer supports creating "empty canvas" control planes. Prior versions of up that do not have this flag will now get an error response from the Upbound API:{"message":"configurationId is required"}

What's Changed

• Add ctp get command, to show a single control plane.
• Added get commands for orgs, repos, robots, and robot tokens
• Implement JSON and YAML output formatting
• Add formatted ouput for more get & list commands
• Add alpha commands for MCP connector
• update up-sdk-go to use new error descriptions
• Initial suport for tab completions
• Introduce configuration commands
• Add completion predictors for control planes, profiles, repos, and robots
• Add completion predictor for configurations
• Add first iteration of configuration create
• Update login to fetch default user account if none specified
• Require configurations for creating control planes
• Separate kubeconfig generation steps
• Update gitsources login to pass port parameter.
• Add Organization user management
• Add support for listing configuration templates
• Disable the upbound subcommand.
• Revised the new "org user" comands to take an org name instead of an org ID
• Move controlplane commands to stable maturity level
• Create a token as part of connect command
• docs: add controlplane commands
• connect: fix the robot creation call
• Querying control planes with no associated configurations
• Update docs: add configuration, remove 'upbound'.
• Added --private flag for up cfg create
• connect: always create user token if not provided - no creation of robots
• connect: wait for helm installation to complete
• combine xpkg auth ext anno during build
• Move up ctp kubeconfig get to stable

v0.15.0

Release Date: November 6th, 2022.

What's Changed

• Support webhook configurations in provider packages

v0.14.0

Release Date: October 5th, 2022.

Notable Changes

• Two new commands, up ctp provider install and up ctp configuration install, to quickly install Providers and Configurations into any control plane.
• The promotion of the experimental control planes (MCP) API to be the default for all up alpha ctp commands.
• ⚠️ Breaking change ⚠️ The promotion of the experimental MCP API may break some workflows, but all impacted commands fall under the alpha maturity group. Guarantees around backwards compatibility are explained in detail in the API Maturity documentation. While breaking changes will try to be minimized from version to version, up is not guaranteed to maintain backwards compatibility for pre-v1.0 versions.

What's Changed

• Use compact usage output
• Drop UP_MCP_EXPERIMENTAL in favor of new control planes API
• Add support for up ctp provider install and up ctp configuration install
• Move control plane commands to only support previously experimental API
• Clean up remaining mcp ID references in docs

v0.13.0

Release Date: August 26th, 2022.

Release reference on GitHub

Notable Changes

• drastically increases the functionality of up by introducing command groups for organization, robot, repository, and profile.
• restructures the up command graph by adding top-level "maturity" groups. Commands that are expected to change or evolve in the future are now nested under up alpha. See the API Maturity documentation for more information.

What's Changed

• Do not prompt for username / password if token is provided
• Only pass domain to docker-credential-up
• Embed Kubernetes client auth plugins
• Update comment about auth plugins
• Drop up uxp connect command
• Update MCP experimental ctp list with paging
• Move to pterm, emit success message for all operations, and support --quiet and --pretty global output config
• Add support for repository management and create on push
• Add Nix installation instructions
• Simplify up upbound install and add config command group
• Add support for organization management commands
• Support robot management commands
• Add --force option to destructive commands
• Move experimental and preview commands to alpha group
• Fix up logout and hint when session is missing
• Add support for up ctp pull-secret create and require token create output
• Cleanup command structure and allow creating new named profile on login
• Fix top-level alpha command help output and updates docs for v0.13.0 release
• Update configuration docs to include base config