Command palette, integrated editor & terminal, faster file search and a simpler Syncthing UI. Today we’re releasing UCloud 2025.4.0! This update introduces a keyboard-driven command palette, a built-in text editor, an integrated terminal, a fully revamped file search, and a simplified Syncthing experience.
While these new tools will be the most visible changes for users, they are also part of a broader, long-term effort to refine UCloud’s foundations.
“Software development on UCloud started back in 2017. Since then, we have make many architectural and design changes. This progress inevitably caused a build-up of inconsistensies and inefficiencies. With our understanding of the goal now being a lot clearer than in 2017, the aim is to simplify the internal code structure and get rid of old legacy code to ensure stability, performance and faster development of the service.”
Dan Sebastian Thrane, Senior Software Architect for Research Infrastructure
With that context in mind, here’s a closer look at what’s new in UCloud 2025.4.0.
Navigation and shortcuts
We have added a fast way to move around UCloud without leaving the keyboard.
- Keyboard-first workflow: Use it to access shortcuts to common actions, jump to your favorite applications, or quickly switch projects.
- Command palette: Open the palette with Ctrl+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd+P on macOS.
Files and search
Finding things is now much quicker and more reliable and edit text files directly in UCloud without needing to start a job.
- Revamped file search: File search has been completely rebuilt and is now significantly faster. This requires your files to be indexed. Indexing of files may take up to 24 hours after the file has been created.
- Edit-in-place: Double-click any text file in the file browser to open it in the new integrated editor.
- Syntax highlighting: The editor supports basic syntax highlighting.
- Tabs & file tree: Work across multiple tabs and use the sidebar to navigate your project’s file tree quickly.
Integrated terminal
A lightweight terminal is now available across Kubernetes-based service providers.
- Auto-shutdown: Sessions shut down automatically when inactive. (Do not use it for long-running or background tasks.)
- Availability: The integrated terminal is now available on the SDU/K8s provider. It works similar to the terminal released last year for the SDU/Hippo provider. You can open a terminal in any folder via “Open terminal” button.
- For small tasks: Ideal for quick edits and running common utilities.
- Resource limits: The terminal has low CPU and memory and (is not intended for running jobs).
Jobs and Syncthing
New real-time metrics have been added to jobs and the Syncthing has been made easier to understand and operate.
- Simplified interface: A cleaner, more approachable Syncthing UI for managing synchronization.
- Real-time job metrics: You can now monitor real time metrics about CPU, memory and GPU utilization from the job view.
As always, you can visit UCloud’s documentation at https://docs.cloud.sdu.dk for more information.