DeepSeek Bot: matoleo yote na matoleo ya zamani

- The desktop app and its downloads are now named DS Bot. Existing teams, settings and browser data carry over.
- Group chats: no limit on how often Bots call each other; members called in one message start at the same time; the calling Bot is woken once after the last of them finishes.
- Bots no longer start subagents or workflows from DeepSeek Harness; they hand work to other Bots. A message you steer into a running turn in a Bot's private chat reaches the Bot at once.
- The Linux desktop app no longer crashes when it reads images.
- Safer data: Bot-to-Bot messages are no longer lost on restart or failed delivery; outside edits to the team's state file are no longer overwritten; Bots cannot reach data folders inside a team workspace; secrets stay available after a restart.
- 30 more fixes across group chats, memory, voice input, usage, the sidebar and the macOS window header.
Full list: CHANGELOG.

- Privacy Bot: a Bot can be marked private; other Bots cannot read its folder, memory or chats, and sharing needs your approval.
- Bots can read, check and edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents.
- A Bot can propose a new skill or an AGENTS.md update after long work; applied only when you approve.
- Group details can stop all work in the group at once.
- The sidebar can be dragged to resize or folded to an avatar rail; narrow windows fold the Bot panel first.
- Bot views run on the shared Deep View package.
- Fixes: group-name tooltip on truncated names, read_group_chat on notice rows, installer writable-folder check.
- DS Bot tracks DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.4.

Added
- The desktop app keeps running in the system tray when you close its window, so Bots go on with their work. Click the tray icon to open the window again, or choose Quit there to end the app. (#500, #549)
- An avatar library in Bot settings and New Bot: import several photos at once and reuse them for any Bot. If some files fail, the others are still imported. (#484, #491)
- When a Bot hands its browser to you for a sign-in, a payment or a check, a card in the chat lets you take over, skip it, or tell the Bot you're done. (#591)
- A message you steer into a running turn shows "Not read yet" under it until the Bot reads it. (#581, #598)
- Old /btw cards left by 0.2.1 can be deleted from the chat. (#550, #555)
Changed
- Long replies are easier to read: in the desktop app, Chinese text uses the system font, lines are a little looser and stay even around inline code, and list items have room between them. The body font you set in DSH still comes first. (#601, #607)
- Attached images and files sit on their own row above the text in the message box. (#565, #566)
- When you steer a queued message into the running turn, the working indicator starts its clock again. (#580, #587)
- A change to a Bot's role or instructions takes effect on its next reply: the Bot is told about it. (#535, #584)
- A new Bot starts on the thinking level of the default model you set in DSH. (#525, #586)
- A group member that is busy reads your correction at its next step, and the answer to a later call still goes back to the one who asked. (#534, #585)
- In an admin-led group, if the only admin who speaks first passes without an answer, the group tells you to call a member with @Name. (#512, #605)
- The Connect plugins button is no longer in the Bot sidebar. Manage connectors in Settings or the account menu. (#452, #570)
- The Bot tool that lists models is now list_bot_models, so DS Bot installs together with plugins that have their own list_models. (#568, #575)
- Buttons on question, secret, approval and model key cards show a focus ring when you move to them with the keyboard. (#614)
Fixed
- The Linux desktop packages can read images. (#542, #544)
- A browser screenshot no longer breaks the Bot's conversation, and a conversation that an earlier screenshot broke works again. (#560, #578)
- The first-run import copies each group's own conversation, so imported groups open. (#551, #567)
- When a Bot moves to a fresh part, a scheduled task no longer stays in both parts and runs twice. (#511, #604)
- If a message to a group member fails, the member gets the lines it missed on its next turn. (#510, #569)
- Earlier parts of a Bot's conversation are stopped and archived when it moves to a fresh part, so they no longer show as active in DSH's Agent mode. (#571, #573)
- Earlier parts of a Bot's conversation stay readable when their agent is gone. (#537, #583)
- Opening a subagent's Session no longer reports a false error in Feedback. (#540, #582)
- In the bubble layout, the end of a one-line reply can be selected and its links clicked. (#563, #572)
- The Bot list shows in the sidebar when the window opens in Bot mode on a cold start. (#559, #574)
- A group chat no longer shows a blank turn when an old reply was removed by compaction. (#557, #576)
- A long message that starts with a code block folds to a real preview, and Show all shows it. (#520, #579)
- The sidebar scrollbar no longer touches the highlighted row. (#595, #596)

Added
- Desktop app for Linux: one AppImage that runs on every distribution and updates itself, and a deb for Debian and Ubuntu (x64). See Install. (#410, #412)
- Side questions with /btw: in a Bot's own chat, type /btw <question> to ask while it works. The Bot answers from the conversation so far, without stopping its task or running any tool, and the answer stays out of its history. The question and the answer stay as a card in the chat, which you can cancel while it is being answered. (#407, #413)
- Message layout in Settings → General → Appearance: a Bubble width slider (50–100%), and a flat layout that shows a Bot's words without a bubble, under its avatar, name and time, with a Text width of its own. (#380, #446, #447, #448)
- The desktop app has the Bot browser too. Each Bot's sign-ins stay after you quit. (#449, #451)
- In the desktop app you can import cookies into a Bot's browser from a file or from an installed Chrome, Edge or Firefox profile. (#458, #461)
- Bot mode's account menu has a Sign out item for the DeepSeek account. (#398, #425)
- A saved key's purpose can be edited or cleared in Settings → Secrets. (#387, #435)
- Bots can draw charts, small calculators whose numbers update as you drag, and custom sandboxed views in their replies. (#468, #471)
Changed
- Chat bubbles widen with the window instead of stopping at a fixed width. (#380, #447)
- A Bot's thinking is hidden by default; turn on Show thinking in Settings → General → Appearance to see it above the reply. Bot chats no longer show lines such as "Tools updated". (#465, #466)
- Only one right panel opens at a time, and the Bot drawer has a New terminal button in place of the header's right-sidebar toggle. (#456, #470)
- In the desktop app, a file you download from the window, such as a chart image, asks where to save it. (#476, #477)
- Groups no longer drop a Bot's or your @ calls. Bot-to-Bot relays pause at the group's limit and go on when you press Continue or write. (#395, #433)
- On phone-width screens the details panel covers the chat instead of crushing it, and settings fill the screen. (#438)
- On touch screens a tap on a message opens its tools. (#439)
- On phones, menus stay above the on-screen keyboard, controls stay clear of the home indicator, and focusing a field no longer zooms the page. (#315, #440)
Fixed
- The Windows app saves its settings when it is started through a short path. (#378, #426)
- The team no longer stays read-only after a crash when Windows reuses the old process id. (#428, #431)
- An unreadable memory or secrets file is no longer overwritten by the next change. (#409, #430)
- When a window can only view the team, a Bot's key request shows why no card appears. (#429, #432)
- The activity row under a Bot's chat and the sidebar preview show what a Bot is doing again on DSH 0.2.1. (#349, #434)
- The desktop app keeps web search working after web-search-auto is turned off, from its next start. (#128, #436)
- An earlier part of a Bot's chat shows the view cards the Bot displayed there again. (#415, #418)
- A question card and a view card open together no longer both answer the same letter key. (#404, #405)
- The activity row no longer disappears and comes back while a Bot works through several steps. (#465, #466)
- The highlight under the Bot's tab in the side panel covers the whole tab again after you come back from a browser tab. (#472, #474)
Known limitations
- The desktop app is not signed: at the first start Windows SmartScreen warns, and macOS asks you to allow it in Privacy & Security, which needs an administrator password.
- Cookie import in the desktop app can read no cookies. (#490)
- A /btw card cannot be closed. (#489)