CodeWhale v0.9.8 Completes the deepseek-tui Rebrand and Ships Two Command Names From One Binary Across Nine Platform Archives

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Hmbown/CodeWhale (40,828 stars, Rust) released v0.9.8 on 2026-08-16, formally deprecating the legacy `deepseek-tui` npm package with a REBRAND.md migration path for v0.8.x users. The release ships identical runtimes under both `codewhale` and `codew` across npm, Homebrew, GHCR, archives and an NSIS installer — with the honest caveat that Cargo cannot create a second command alias from one binary target, and that the Windows NSIS installer remains unsigned and will trip SmartScreen until a certificate is wired into the pipeline. Distribution breadth (Linux x64/ARM64, Android Termux, macOS x64/ARM, Windows x64/ARM64 including portable builds) is now a competitive axis for agent harnesses.