v0.0.16 — a faster, quieter way of tracking each node's state

Released 2026-07-21.

Highlights

• The Activity log no longer fills up with routine health checks. Buddy checks each node’s storage, network, Kubernetes membership and package list constantly in the background; those routine checks used to each leave a row in the Activity log, thousands of them a day, drowning out anything that actually mattered. They’re no longer logged as separate entries — the log now shows operations and real state changes only.
• Node detail gains an “observed state” view, showing how recently each tracked area of a node (storage, network, Kubernetes membership, its package list) was last checked, so you can see at a glance how fresh that information is.
• The Agent Update screen now shows a short identifying code next to each node’s software version, and calls out plainly when two nodes report the same version but are actually running different builds — useful mainly during development, but it means a version number alone is no longer assumed to be the whole truth.

Known limitations

• A rebuilt copy of the node software at an unchanged version number could still be skipped as “already up to date.” This surfaced only while testing the next release and is fixed there — see v0.0.18.