DeepSeek TUI: CodeWhale v0.8.50 Sets New Install Baseline

What changed upstream

• The maintained public CodeWhale surfaces now show v0.8.50 as the stable baseline as of June 3, 2026.
• The canonical command remains codewhale, with the older deepseek and deepseek-tui names still treated as transition shims rather than the primary install path.
• The current README/install guidance reinforces the modern persistence path: ~/.codewhale/config.toml for user config, project overlays under <workspace>/.codewhale/config.toml, and checksum-verified release artifacts for manual installs.
• The npm package is still only a wrapper/installer, not a Node-based runtime. It downloads the matching Rust binaries from GitHub Releases, which matters for developers who assume an npm install changes the runtime stack.

Practical setup guidance

1. The stable reference point should now be v0.8.50, not v0.8.49.
2. Setup pages should teach codewhale + .codewhale as the default path, while labeling .deepseek as compatibility-era baggage rather than the main recommendation.
3. Manual-download instructions should keep the SHA-256 verification step visible, because official release artifacts are now a first-class install path.

Sources

• CodeWhale website
• CodeWhale GitHub repository
• CodeWhale README
• CodeWhale install docs
• DeepSeek official Claude Code integration guide
• DeepSeek Anthropic API guide
• DeepSeek V4 Flash model card