DSH v0.2.1-alpha.3: Account Login, /compact (Oct 14, 2026)

v0.2.1-alpha.3: DeepSeek Account Login on Local-HTTP Web, Secret Masking by Default, Minimal-Mode Images and /compact — and an API-Key Precedence Change.

v0.2.1-alpha.2 closed this site’s release coverage on October 9. Five days later the 0.2.1 line moved again: v0.2.1-alpha.3 published 2026-10-14 with the Pre-release flag, pairing an account-and-safety feature batch with a precedence change headless users must read before upgrading.

Three additions lead the New Features section. The Web build supports signing in to a DeepSeek account when accessed over local HTTP — the local-HTTP qualifier is the notes’ own. Keys and tokens recognized in already-sent messages are masked by default, with on-demand viewing for when you actually need to see one. And minimal mode reads images and automatically compresses long conversations, joined by a /compact command for manual context compression on the Web and desktop builds.

Changes that need attention

The notes’ Chores section carries two items existing setups should check. The API-key read precedence changes: Web and desktop builds prefer saved credentials, while headless defaults to environment variables and .env and no longer reads saved keys — deployments that relied on stored credentials in headless mode will behave differently. The Azure provider name is unified to azure, and provider configurations using the old azure-openai-responses name need migration.

Also in Chores: rebuilding an existing custom configuration with --from-default-profile now replaces that configuration along with its plugins and settings, and the Python SDK’s Office engine and full authoring environment switch to on-demand download.

SDK resume, presets and PTC in-memory mode

The TypeScript and Python SDKs gain resume support — restore a saved session and continue using the original session ID and working directory. Subagents can be configured with an independent Agent Preset that sets role and tools together, and delegation guidance improves: a warning arrives when the delegation-depth limit is within reach, and waiting on a subtask no longer consumes new goal-execution turns. The PTC Mode Node runtime gains an optional in-memory mode where repeated code runs reuse variables, functions and imported modules.

The hot-reload fix, and the rest of the fix list

The fix users of plugin updates have waited for: after an update or reinstall, plugins no longer keep running old code — replaceable plugins take effect directly when hot reload is enabled, and cases that cannot hot-reload prompt for a restart. Around it sit the rest of the fix list, including sessions failing to continue after a restart and history-compatibility errors when switching to DeepSeek, the last session record that could be lost when uninstalling a session-storage plugin, worktree creation failing on older Git versions, conversation-area blank blocks and scroll jumps when switching sessions, collapsing work-in-progress, or sending follow-ups, and remote Web misjudging a disconnect under network congestion or losing language and theme preferences after a refresh.

Quality-of-life touches reach everyday use: Cmd/Ctrl plus/minus adjusts body, code and terminal font size on desktop, session-list loading and @ session search improve, the account’s model list follows the account’s available models while hiding ones the current client version does not support, and model settings more clearly indicate credential source and detection status.

The full bilingual notes — every fix, the Web terminal input handling, the sidebar and hover-interaction polish, and the remaining Chores — are on the release page linked above.

Account login, secret masking, minimal-mode images

Changes that need attention

SDK resume, presets and PTC in-memory mode

The hot-reload fix, and the rest of the fix list

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