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title: "Lens Release September 2025 — Lens Blog — Lens"
description: "A new stable release of Lens Desktop featuring improvements to Lens Prism and AWS EKS integration, with UX enhancements and bug fixes."
url: https://lenshq.io/blog/lens-release-september25/
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Lens Release

# Lens Release September 2025

Flavius Dinu September 16, 2025 3 min read

We are happy to announce a new stable release of Lens Desktop that features improvements to Lens Prism and our AWS EKS integration. As you already know, you are shaping the way Lens Kubernetes IDE works, so in this release we have included UX enhancements driven by your feedback, and a range of bug fixes for improved stability.

## What's new in this release?

### AWS EKS integration enhancements

Our **AWS EKS** integration just got smarter. When we launched the feature, you could only connect to your **AWS EKS** clusters using **AWS SSO.**

Now, you have two new options available out of the box:

- **Using Assume Role**
- **Using Access Key Sign-In**

Both of these options can be accessed in the same way you would access the AWS SSO one. In your Lens account, in the top left corner, under **Kubernetes Cluster**, you will see the **EKS option**.

Then, you can click on profile, and under **Advanced Options** you will see the new two integrations.

![Lens Release 2025](https://lenshq.io/blog/lens-release-september25/img-1.webp)

Select one of the options, click on **Next**, and then follow the instructions to set up the integration. You will see that all the EKS clusters your credentials have access to will be populated into Lens Kubernetes IDE.

### OCI-based Helm registries

Lens previously supported classic Helm repositories that exposed an **index.yaml** file, meaning that OCI-based Helm registries (e.g. **oci://harbor/**…) were invisible in the **Helm -> Charts** view. Even though installed charts would show up under **Helm -> Releases**, there was no way to browse or discover them through the **Charts** view, creating a fragmented experience.

In this new release, Lens Kubernetes IDE introduces support for OCI-based Helm registries, but with an important distinction: users must add the **full chart part** rather than the repository root.

For example adding **oci://ghcr.io/stefanprodan/charts/podinfo** or **oci://ghcr.io/prometheus-community/charts/prometheus** works correctly, allowing charts to appear in the repo list, giving you the ability to browse versions, and install the chart directly from Lens. On the other hand, adding only the repo root like **oci://ghcr.io/stefanprodan/charts/,** won't display any charts.

### Some other updates

Lens Prism, our new AI-assistant received some updates as well:

- You can now visualize tool calls made by Lens Prism in the UI
- Skill summarization is now more concise

We now have a shortcut to open a Terminal. You can see all the shortcuts [here](https://docs.k8slens.dev/using-lens/shortcuts/).

There are many other things that have been released, and we've done a lot of bug fixing, so to understand more about what was improved, check out our release notes [here](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/lens-2025-9-151055-latest-release/6422).

## Key points

To ensure a smooth transition with minimal disruption, we'll begin by releasing the update to a small group of our users and gradually expand availability until everyone has access.

If you haven't received the update yet but would like to try it, you can manually download the latest version from our [website](https://k8slens.dev/download).

As always, we value your feedback so make sure you use our [Lens Forums](https://forums.k8slens.dev/) to let us know what you think about this new release, and what else you would like to see implemented in the future.