DeepSeek TUI Rename Lands in CodeWhale v0.8.42

What changed upstream

• GitHub Releases now marks v0.8.42 as Latest on the canonical Hmbown/CodeWhale repository, dated May 24, 2026.
• The release text says the project is renamed to CodeWhale and treats codewhale / codewhale-tui as the canonical dispatcher/runtime pair.
• Legacy deepseek and deepseek-tui binaries are no longer just informal compatibility aliases. The release explicitly says they are deprecation shims for one release cycle, printing a warning and forwarding to the canonical binaries.
• The removal boundary is now documented: upstream says those legacy shims will be removed in v0.9.0.
• The public website still lags behind GitHub: deepseek-tui.com remains branded as DeepSeek TUI and still teaches older deepseek-named install paths, which means setup pages now need to explain the split as an official transition rather than a vague naming drift.

Practical setup guidance

This is exactly the kind of developer change that belongs on maintained guides:

1. Canonical install examples should now prefer npm install -g codewhale, cargo install codewhale-cli codewhale-tui --locked, and ghcr.io/hmbown/codewhale:v0.8.42.
2. deepseek command examples should be labeled as temporary compatibility bridges, not first-choice commands for new installs.
3. Manual-download instructions should now point at CodeWhale release asset names and the release-specific SHA-256 manifest.
4. Any page that still implies the rename is only in-progress is now weaker than the official release notes.

Sources

• CodeWhale GitHub repository
• CodeWhale releases
• CodeWhale install docs
• DeepSeek official Claude Code integration guide
• DeepSeek Anthropic API guide
• DeepSeek V4 Flash model card
• teamblobfish DeepSeek V4 Flash GGUF