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September 10, 2026

SwarmCLI Changelog: Every Release of SwarmCLI, the RBAC Proxy and the Charts, Dated

One page for what shipped and when: every SwarmCLI release from v1.0.0 to v2.0.1, every RBAC proxy release, and the date each chart joined the repository, with the changes that matter to an operator and a link to each release. Updated when a release lands.

SwarmCLI Changelog: Every Release of SwarmCLI, the RBAC Proxy and the Charts, Dated

Three things ship under the SwarmCLI name: the terminal UI and CLI itself, the RBAC proxy that sits in front of a swarm for teams, and the chart repository. Each has its own release page on GitHub and its own cadence, and nothing joined them up. This page does: every release, dated, with the changes an operator would notice, newest first, and a link to the full notes. The Docker Swarm changelog is the companion for the engine underneath.

Versions that belong together

Since v1.14.0, a SwarmCLI release names the proxy and agent versions it was built and tested against in a compatibility table on its release page. Deploy that pair; the newest tag of each is not always the right one.

SwarmCLIRBAC proxyAgentReleased
v2.0.1v2.1.3v2.0.010 September 2026
v2.0.0v2.1.3v2.0.07 September 2026
v1.14.0v2.1.2v1.8.017 August 2026

The agent's releases are not published separately; its version is the one the SwarmCLI release names.

SwarmCLI

v2.0.1 (10 September 2026)

  • HEALTH stops guessing once a task is over, so a finished task no longer shows a health state it cannot have.
  • A one-shot chart release is judged by its task rather than by the pause it cannot avoid.
  • A global service counts only the nodes its constraints actually allow, so its replica figure stops overcounting.
  • Release notes.

v2.0.0 (7 September 2026)

  • A permanent free tier: every feature on swarms of up to three nodes, swarmcli license activate to get it. A pre-v2 binary reports a free key as invalid, so upgrade first.
  • Paid licenses are bound to one swarm and can be moved to a new one from the customer portal; a licensed swarm keeps running for up to 60 days without contact, and air-gapped swarms activate from a file.
  • The whole license lifecycle from the shell: activate, install, lease install, status --json, sync, id.
  • :bootstrap deploys a licence-renewer service that keeps the license current on a swarm nobody logs into; --no-renewer leaves it out.
  • The Go module path is now github.com/Eldara-Tech/swarmcli/v2. Nothing in the packages changed.
  • Log separators in the logs view; a task that ran to completion is no longer a warning; the secret dialog stopped accepting names Swarm refuses and stopped base64-encoding every value; one Docker context per session.
  • Upgrade note: a trial or free license with no expiry date is now refused, and the agent fleet should move to v2.0.0 before a managed license is activated.
  • Release notes, and the announcement.

v1.14.0 (17 August 2026)

  • The -be suffix left every package, cask and image: swarmcli is the full product everywhere, swarmcli-oss the Apache-2.0 build, swarmcli-be a deprecated alias.
  • Charts can be browsed inside the TUI; a per-container cost view on any node.
  • A revealed secret's payload never reaches the log; a context is validated before you are switched onto it; every polling view has exactly one tick chain; the help key answers everywhere it is advertised.
  • Release notes.

v1.13.0 (3 August 2026)

  • Declarative releases: a file that names charts, versions and values, applied as one.
  • Chart archives are checked against the digest the repository index publishes; a chart carries the files it ships and the loader stops following symlinks; plaintext HTTP repositories are opt-in.
  • charts lint, and a chart can declare the SwarmCLI version it needs through swarmcliVersion.
  • Convergence tells the truth: --wait measures a stability window, a rolled-back deploy is a failed deploy, a completed one-shot service is converged, replica counts show what is running.
  • Release notes.

v1.12.0 (13 July 2026)

  • Live image-pull progress on task and service rows.
  • Go toolchain to 1.26.5 for GO-2026-5856.
  • Release notes.

v1.11.0 (9 July 2026)

  • Smarter chart pre-flight, and five community charts.
  • A PORTS column and a HEALTH column in the services view; live per-container health with Business Edition.
  • Release notes.

v1.10.0 (25 June 2026)

  • SwarmCLI Charts: a Helm-like package manager for Docker Swarm, with charts prune, pre-flight of external secrets and configs, and requirements.yaml.
  • A startup "update available" notice with per-version dismissal.
  • Switching to a locked swarm, with in-app unlock; node spec updates retried on "update out of sequence"; the service logging driver visible in inspect and edit.
  • Release notes.

v1.9.0 (17 June 2026)

  • :service and :svc list every service across stacks.
  • Release notes.

v1.8.0 (10 June 2026)

  • A read-only volumes view, with seams for cross-node volume management.
  • Content-aware column layout shared by every list view; Ctrl+Q in the short help; starting-container logs shown under the hide-stopped filter.
  • Release notes.

v1.7.0 and v1.7.1 (5 June 2026)

  • Stopped-container logs hidden by default; a healthcheck is preserved through stack inspect and edit; the help bar is bounded to its box.
  • Releases carry curated upgrade notes for breaking changes from here on.
  • v1.7.0, v1.7.1.

v1.6.0 (19 May 2026)

  • Port-forward bindings: w lists them, Shift+W opens the dialog. The port-forwarding guide is from this release.
  • Discoverable command flags with per-command --help and strict validation; stack edit preserves networks and stops cosmetic mutations.
  • Release notes.

v1.5.0 and v1.5.1 (20 April and 1 May 2026)

  • The RBAC proxy joins the product: mTLS onboarding and the foundation for team access. The mTLS post covers it.
  • The exit key moves from q to Ctrl+Q; stack YAML can be saved to a local file; context timeouts on every Docker API call, which ended the polling pile-ups.
  • v1.5.1: the context delete key moves from d to Ctrl+D.
  • v1.5.0, v1.5.1.

v1.4.0 (18 March 2026)

  • Expanded tasks refresh from a fresh snapshot; dismissing an error no longer quits the app; a failed context switch reverts.
  • Release notes.

v1.3.0 to v1.3.3 (7 February to 9 March 2026)

  • Homebrew install, and the license changes to Apache 2.0 (v1.3.0).
  • Stack edit, describe and create; volume declarations and service labels reconstructed correctly in stack YAML; tty: true logs fixed (v1.3.3).
  • The Docker client is cached as a singleton (v1.3.2).
  • v1.3.0, v1.3.3.

v1.2.0 (19 January 2026)

  • Network view and functions, every secret option, service and node improvements, help screens.
  • Release notes.

v1.0.0 to v1.1.1 (1 December 2025 to 4 January 2026)

  • The first release, then config create, delete and clone, Docker context handling, and the service and log views enhanced (v1.1.0); UI speed fixes (v1.1.1).
  • v1.0.0, v1.1.0.

RBAC proxy

v2.1.3 (7 September 2026)

  • The reverse proxy's errors get a stream, and upgrade sessions no longer leak. A troubleshooting page in the docs.
  • Release notes.

v2.1.0 to v2.1.2 (9 July to 17 August 2026)

  • An admin-authorised user management API for the TUI; swcproxy backup and restore with an optional CA bundle; GET /v1/containers authorised as a services read (v2.1.0).
  • Go toolchain to 1.26.5 for GO-2026-5856 (v2.1.1).
  • v2.1.0.

v2.0.0 (17 June 2026)

  • Dynamic role-based access control: roles and bindings, with built-in viewer, operator and admin, managed through /api/v1/roles, /api/v1/bindings or the swcproxy role and binding commands.
  • Breaking: reads are authorised per the permission matrix, so non-admins lose the previously permissive reads of secrets and swarm state. Legacy identities migrate to admin or operator; review bindings after upgrading.
  • Release notes.

v1.1.0 to v1.4.0 (25 April to 10 June 2026)

  • Mutual TLS upstream to the agent-manager, and a GET /api/v1/me identity endpoint (v1.3.0).
  • /v1/forward gated through the exec guard (v1.2.0); a stack-scoped admin guard for volume management (v1.4.0).
  • PROXY_ADMIN_TOKEN_FILE for secret-mounted delivery, and threat-model hardening (v1.1.0).
  • v1.3.0, v1.4.0.

v1.0.0 (17 April 2026)

  • The swcproxy CLI, the onboarding endpoint and the dual listener; a client mTLS certificate generated on user creation; startup refused when the external listener lacks mTLS; exec and attach on protected containers restricted to admins; bootstrap stack resources protected from non-admin mutation.
  • Release notes.

Charts

The chart repository versions each chart on its own; the date is when the chart first appeared. Most later releases bump the application version the chart deploys, and the index carries a digest for every archive.

ChartFirst releaseNotes
whoami21 June 2026The smallest chart, and the one the charts guide uses
swarm-cronjob22 June 2026Scheduled services
traefik25 June 2026Reverse proxy and TLS
redis3 July 2026
mariadb4 July 2026
keycloak9 July 2026
openclaw9 July 2026The end-to-end install
postgres13 July 2026Pinned, secret-authenticated, single node
superset13 July 2026
ollama13 July 2026Used by the Open WebUI post
renovate20 July 2026Since 20 July every chart declares and verifies the SwarmCLI version it needs
zammad20 July 2026Helpdesk and ticketing
vaultwarden10 August 2026
gitlab11 August 2026GitLab CE

Common concerns, answered

What is the latest SwarmCLI release? SwarmCLI v2.0.1, released on 10 September 2026, a fix release on top of v2.0.0, which brought the permanent free tier, licenses bound to a swarm that can be moved from the portal, one-command activation, and the /v2 Go module path. The matching RBAC proxy is v2.1.3 and the agent is v2.0.0.

Which RBAC proxy version goes with which SwarmCLI? Since v1.14.0, each SwarmCLI release page carries a compatibility table naming the exact proxy and agent tags it was built and tested against. For v2.0.1 that is proxy v2.1.3 and agent v2.0.0. Deploy the tag in the table rather than the newest one.

How often does SwarmCLI release? Roughly every two to four weeks through 2026: twenty-two releases between v1.0.0 on 1 December 2025 and v2.0.0 on 7 September 2026, with release candidates in between for the larger ones.

Reading the pattern

Three things happened in nine months. The terminal UI went from a viewer to an operator's tool (contexts, stacks, port forwarding, volumes, health). Charts arrived in June and got the verification a package manager needs by August. And the licensing moved, in v2.0.0, to the shape that the free tier and the movable license required. The proxy's own arc is the RBAC one: from mTLS in front of a socket in April to roles, bindings and an audit trail by June.

This page is updated when a release with operator-visible changes lands; the updated date above says when it last was. For the engine underneath, the Docker Swarm changelog does the same job.