v0.8.44

This release renames the project to CodeWhale. The legacy
deepseek and deepseek-tui binaries continue to ship as
deprecation shims for one release cycle; they print a one-line
warning and forward to codewhale / codewhale-tui. They will
be removed in v0.9.0. See docs/REBRAND.md for the full
migration story.

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g codewhale

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/codewhale/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/codewhale:v0.8.44

The image ships the codewhale dispatcher and codewhale-tui runtime (plus the legacy deepseek / deepseek-tui shims during the transition). The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install codewhale-cli codewhale-tui --locked

Both crates are required — codewhale-cli produces the codewhale dispatcher and codewhale-tui produces the interactive runtime that the dispatcher delegates to. Installing only one binary will fail at runtime with a MISSING_COMPANION_BINARY error.

Manual download

Both binaries below must be downloaded for your platform and dropped into the same directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin/):

Platform	Dispatcher	TUI runtime
Linux x64	codewhale-linux-x64	codewhale-tui-linux-x64
Linux ARM64	codewhale-linux-arm64	codewhale-tui-linux-arm64
macOS x64	codewhale-macos-x64	codewhale-tui-macos-x64
macOS ARM	codewhale-macos-arm64	codewhale-tui-macos-arm64
Windows x64	codewhale-windows-x64.exe	codewhale-tui-windows-x64.exe

Then chmod +x both (Unix) and run ./codewhale.

Legacy deepseek-* and deepseek-tui-* assets are also attached for one release cycle so that existing deepseek update invocations on v0.8.40 keep working; they install the deprecation shims, which forward to the canonical binaries.

Verify (recommended)

Download codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt from this Release and verify:

# Linux
sha256sum -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt

The legacy deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt is also attached for backward compatibility and contains the same hashes.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full notes for this release.

v0.8.43

This release renames the project to CodeWhale. The legacy
deepseek and deepseek-tui binaries continue to ship as
deprecation shims for one release cycle; they print a one-line
warning and forward to codewhale / codewhale-tui. They will
be removed in v0.9.0. See docs/REBRAND.md for the full
migration story.

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g codewhale

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/codewhale/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/codewhale:v0.8.43

The image ships the codewhale dispatcher and codewhale-tui runtime (plus the legacy deepseek / deepseek-tui shims during the transition). The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install codewhale-cli codewhale-tui --locked

Both crates are required — codewhale-cli produces the codewhale dispatcher and codewhale-tui produces the interactive runtime that the dispatcher delegates to. Installing only one binary will fail at runtime with a MISSING_COMPANION_BINARY error.

Manual download

Both binaries below must be downloaded for your platform and dropped into the same directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin/):

Platform	Dispatcher	TUI runtime
Linux x64	codewhale-linux-x64	codewhale-tui-linux-x64
Linux ARM64	codewhale-linux-arm64	codewhale-tui-linux-arm64
macOS x64	codewhale-macos-x64	codewhale-tui-macos-x64
macOS ARM	codewhale-macos-arm64	codewhale-tui-macos-arm64
Windows x64	codewhale-windows-x64.exe	codewhale-tui-windows-x64.exe

Then chmod +x both (Unix) and run ./codewhale.

Legacy deepseek-* and deepseek-tui-* assets are also attached for one release cycle so that existing deepseek update invocations on v0.8.40 keep working; they install the deprecation shims, which forward to the canonical binaries.

Verify (recommended)

Download codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt from this Release and verify:

# Linux
sha256sum -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt

The legacy deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt is also attached for backward compatibility and contains the same hashes.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full notes for this release.

v0.8.42

This release renames the project to CodeWhale. The legacy
deepseek and deepseek-tui binaries continue to ship as
deprecation shims for one release cycle; they print a one-line
warning and forward to codewhale / codewhale-tui. They will
be removed in v0.9.0. See docs/REBRAND.md for the full
migration story.

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g codewhale

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/codewhale/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/codewhale:v0.8.42

The image ships the codewhale dispatcher and codewhale-tui runtime (plus the legacy deepseek / deepseek-tui shims during the transition). The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install codewhale-cli codewhale-tui --locked

Both crates are required — codewhale-cli produces the codewhale dispatcher and codewhale-tui produces the interactive runtime that the dispatcher delegates to. Installing only one binary will fail at runtime with a MISSING_COMPANION_BINARY error.

Manual download

Both binaries below must be downloaded for your platform and dropped into the same directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin/):

Platform	Dispatcher	TUI runtime
Linux x64	codewhale-linux-x64	codewhale-tui-linux-x64
Linux ARM64	codewhale-linux-arm64	codewhale-tui-linux-arm64
macOS x64	codewhale-macos-x64	codewhale-tui-macos-x64
macOS ARM	codewhale-macos-arm64	codewhale-tui-macos-arm64
Windows x64	codewhale-windows-x64.exe	codewhale-tui-windows-x64.exe

Then chmod +x both (Unix) and run ./codewhale.

Legacy deepseek-* and deepseek-tui-* assets are also attached for one release cycle so that existing deepseek update invocations on v0.8.40 keep working; they install the deprecation shims, which forward to the canonical binaries.

Verify (recommended)

Download codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt from this Release and verify:

# Linux
sha256sum -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt

The legacy deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt is also attached for backward compatibility and contains the same hashes.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full notes for this release.

v0.8.41

This release renames the project to CodeWhale. The legacy
deepseek and deepseek-tui binaries continue to ship as
deprecation shims for one release cycle; they print a one-line
warning and forward to codewhale / codewhale-tui. They will
be removed in v0.9.0. See docs/REBRAND.md for the full
migration story.

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g codewhale

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/codewhale/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/codewhale:v0.8.41

The image ships the codewhale dispatcher and codewhale-tui runtime (plus the legacy deepseek / deepseek-tui shims during the transition). The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install codewhale-cli codewhale-tui --locked

Both crates are required — codewhale-cli produces the codewhale dispatcher and codewhale-tui produces the interactive runtime that the dispatcher delegates to. Installing only one binary will fail at runtime with a MISSING_COMPANION_BINARY error.

Manual download

Both binaries below must be downloaded for your platform and dropped into the same directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin/):

Platform	Dispatcher	TUI runtime
Linux x64	codewhale-linux-x64	codewhale-tui-linux-x64
Linux ARM64	codewhale-linux-arm64	codewhale-tui-linux-arm64
macOS x64	codewhale-macos-x64	codewhale-tui-macos-x64
macOS ARM	codewhale-macos-arm64	codewhale-tui-macos-arm64
Windows x64	codewhale-windows-x64.exe	codewhale-tui-windows-x64.exe

Then chmod +x both (Unix) and run ./codewhale.

Legacy deepseek-* and deepseek-tui-* assets are also attached for one release cycle so that existing deepseek update invocations on v0.8.40 keep working; they install the deprecation shims, which forward to the canonical binaries.

Verify (recommended)

Download codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt from this Release and verify:

# Linux
sha256sum -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt

The legacy deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt is also attached for backward compatibility and contains the same hashes.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full notes for this release.

v0.8.40

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g deepseek-tui

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/deepseek/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/deepseek-tui:v0.8.40

The image ships the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui runtime. The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install deepseek-tui-cli deepseek-tui --locked

Both crates are required — deepseek-tui-cli produces the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui produces the interactive runtime that the dispatcher delegates to. Installing only one binary will fail at runtime with a MISSING_COMPANION_BINARY error.

Manual download

Both binaries below must be downloaded for your platform and dropped into the same directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin/):

Platform	Dispatcher	TUI runtime
Linux x64	deepseek-linux-x64	deepseek-tui-linux-x64
Linux ARM64	deepseek-linux-arm64	deepseek-tui-linux-arm64
macOS x64	deepseek-macos-x64	deepseek-tui-macos-x64
macOS ARM	deepseek-macos-arm64	deepseek-tui-macos-arm64
Windows x64	deepseek-windows-x64.exe	deepseek-tui-windows-x64.exe

Then chmod +x both (Unix) and run ./deepseek.

Verify (recommended)

Download deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt from this Release and verify:

# Linux
sha256sum -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full notes for this release.

v0.8.39

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g deepseek-tui

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/deepseek/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/deepseek-tui:v0.8.39

The image ships the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui runtime. The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install deepseek-tui-cli deepseek-tui --locked

Both crates are required — deepseek-tui-cli produces the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui produces the interactive runtime that the dispatcher delegates to. Installing only one binary will fail at runtime with a MISSING_COMPANION_BINARY error.

Manual download

Both binaries below must be downloaded for your platform and dropped into the same directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin/):

Platform	Dispatcher	TUI runtime
Linux x64	deepseek-linux-x64	deepseek-tui-linux-x64
Linux ARM64	deepseek-linux-arm64	deepseek-tui-linux-arm64
macOS x64	deepseek-macos-x64	deepseek-tui-macos-x64
macOS ARM	deepseek-macos-arm64	deepseek-tui-macos-arm64
Windows x64	deepseek-windows-x64.exe	deepseek-tui-windows-x64.exe

Then chmod +x both (Unix) and run ./deepseek.

Verify (recommended)

Download deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt from this Release and verify:

# Linux
sha256sum -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full notes for this release.

v0.8.38

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g deepseek-tui

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/deepseek/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/deepseek-tui:v0.8.38

The image ships the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui runtime. The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install deepseek-tui-cli deepseek-tui --locked

Both crates are required — deepseek-tui-cli produces the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui produces the interactive runtime that the dispatcher delegates to. Installing only one binary will fail at runtime with a MISSING_COMPANION_BINARY error.

Manual download

Both binaries below must be downloaded for your platform and dropped into the same directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin/):

Platform	Dispatcher	TUI runtime
Linux x64	deepseek-linux-x64	deepseek-tui-linux-x64
Linux ARM64	deepseek-linux-arm64	deepseek-tui-linux-arm64
macOS x64	deepseek-macos-x64	deepseek-tui-macos-x64
macOS ARM	deepseek-macos-arm64	deepseek-tui-macos-arm64
Windows x64	deepseek-windows-x64.exe	deepseek-tui-windows-x64.exe

Then chmod +x both (Unix) and run ./deepseek.

Verify (recommended)

Download deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt from this Release and verify:

# Linux
sha256sum -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full notes for this release.

v0.8.37

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g deepseek-tui

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/deepseek/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/deepseek-tui:v0.8.37

The image ships the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui runtime. The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install deepseek-tui-cli deepseek-tui --locked

Both crates are required — deepseek-tui-cli produces the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui produces the interactive runtime that the dispatcher delegates to. Installing only one binary will fail at runtime with a MISSING_COMPANION_BINARY error.

Manual download

Both binaries below must be downloaded for your platform and dropped into the same directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin/):

Platform	Dispatcher	TUI runtime
Linux x64	deepseek-linux-x64	deepseek-tui-linux-x64
Linux ARM64	deepseek-linux-arm64	deepseek-tui-linux-arm64
macOS x64	deepseek-macos-x64	deepseek-tui-macos-x64
macOS ARM	deepseek-macos-arm64	deepseek-tui-macos-arm64
Windows x64	deepseek-windows-x64.exe	deepseek-tui-windows-x64.exe

Then chmod +x both (Unix) and run ./deepseek.

Verify (recommended)

Download deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt from this Release and verify:

# Linux
sha256sum -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full notes for this release.

v0.8.36

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g deepseek-tui

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/deepseek/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/deepseek-tui:v0.8.36

The image ships the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui runtime. The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install deepseek-tui-cli deepseek-tui --locked

Manual download

Both binaries must be downloaded for your platform and dropped into the same directory. See the release assets above.

---

Changelog: v0.8.36 (2026-05-14)

A cache-hygiene and UX polish release focused on leaner sub-agent handoffs, sidebar visibility control, and improved RLM batch safety.

Added

• The right sidebar can be hidden for copy-friendly terminals.
  sidebar_focus = "hidden" (or Ctrl+Alt+0 for the current session) removes
  the Work/Tasks/Agents/Context rail so raw terminal selection cannot copy
  sidebar borders alongside transcript text.

Changed

• Sub-agent completion handoffs are leaner and more cache-friendly.
  Internal <deepseek:subagent.done> sentinels now point to the preceding
  human summary line instead of duplicating the summary, elapsed time, and
  step count inside JSON sent to the parent model.
• Prefix stability is visible beside cache telemetry by default. The
  footer now includes the prefix-stability chip in the default status layout,
  and low last-request cache hit rates are no longer colored as hard errors
  when the system/tool prefix itself is stable.
• RLM batch helpers now require an explicit independence assertion.
  sub_query_batch, sub_query_map, and low-level *_batched helpers refuse
  dependency-unsafe parallel fanout unless callers pass
  dependency_mode="independent", and RLM now exposes sub_query_sequence
  for A-to-B dependent work.

Fixed

• Mutex poisoning handling in InMemoryKeyringStore. Lock poison errors
  are now propagated as SecretsError::Keyring instead of causing panics.

Contributors

No new external contributors in this release cycle.

v0.8.35

Highlights

• Cleaner TUI sidebar behavior: active checklist work stays visible in short layouts, completed live-tool rows age out, and shell helper tasks are labeled with readable names instead of internal task IDs.
• Broader settings coverage: /config, schema-driven settings UI, /set, and single-setting display now cover the available setting surface, including animation, paste, vim-mode, synchronized output, context panel, currency, and PDF extraction toggles.
• Leaner prompt/context hygiene: first-turn project context avoids hidden tool/cache state, /context shows named prompt layers, and compaction guidance now separates the 60% manual suggestion from the 80% automatic guardrail.
• Stronger release hygiene: version checks now catch changelog/package drift and README contributor-credit drift before release.
• Contributor credit correction: Horace Liu (@liuhq) is now credited for Nix package support and install documentation contributed during the v0.8.34 cycle.

Install

Recommended: npm (one command, both binaries)

npm install -g deepseek-tui

The wrapper downloads both binaries from this Release and places them in the same directory.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \
  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -v ~/.deepseek:/home/deepseek/.deepseek \
  ghcr.io/hmbown/deepseek-tui:v0.8.35

The image ships the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui runtime. The latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install deepseek-tui-cli deepseek-tui --locked

Both crates are required: deepseek-tui-cli produces the deepseek dispatcher and deepseek-tui produces the interactive runtime that the dispatcher delegates to. Installing only one binary will fail at runtime with a MISSING_COMPANION_BINARY error.

Manual Download

Download both binaries for your platform and put them in the same directory, such as ~/.local/bin/.

Platform	Dispatcher	TUI runtime
Linux x64	deepseek-linux-x64	deepseek-tui-linux-x64
Linux ARM64	deepseek-linux-arm64	deepseek-tui-linux-arm64
macOS x64	deepseek-macos-x64	deepseek-tui-macos-x64
macOS ARM	deepseek-macos-arm64	deepseek-tui-macos-arm64
Windows x64	deepseek-windows-x64.exe	deepseek-tui-windows-x64.exe

On Unix platforms, run chmod +x on both downloaded binaries before launching ./deepseek.

Verify

Download deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt from this Release and verify:

# Linux
sha256sum -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c deepseek-artifacts-sha256.txt

Full Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full notes for this release.