patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra v1.26832.0-2

Claude Desktop 1.26832.0 (patch release 2)

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Claude Desktop 1.26832.0 (patch release 2)

This release provides Claude Desktop version 1.26832.0 pre-patched for Linux.

Installation Options

Arch Linux (pacman Repository - recommended)

curl -fsSL https://patrickjaja.github.io/claude-desktop-extra/install-pacman.sh | sudo bash
sudo pacman -Syu claude-desktop-extra

Arch Linux (manual package)

# x86_64
sudo pacman -U https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra/releases/download/v1.26832.0-2/claude-desktop-extra-1.26832.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
# ARM64
sudo pacman -U https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra/releases/download/v1.26832.0-2/claude-desktop-extra-1.26832.0-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst

Debian/Ubuntu (APT Repository — recommended)

curl -fsSL https://patrickjaja.github.io/claude-desktop-extra/install.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install claude-desktop-extra

Debian/Ubuntu (manual .deb)

# x86_64
sudo apt install ./claude-desktop-extra_1.26832.0-2_amd64.deb
# ARM64
sudo apt install ./claude-desktop-extra_1.26832.0-2_arm64.deb

Fedora/RHEL (RPM Repository — recommended)

curl -fsSL https://patrickjaja.github.io/claude-desktop-extra/install-rpm.sh | sudo bash
sudo dnf install claude-desktop-extra

Fedora/RHEL (manual .rpm)

# x86_64
sudo dnf install ./claude-desktop-extra-1.26832.0-2.x86_64.rpm
# ARM64
sudo dnf install ./claude-desktop-extra-1.26832.0-2.aarch64.rpm

NixOS / Nix

nix run github:patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra

AppImage (Any Distro)

# x86_64
chmod +x Claude_Desktop-1.26832.0-x86_64.AppImage
./Claude_Desktop-1.26832.0-x86_64.AppImage
# ARM64
chmod +x Claude_Desktop-1.26832.0-aarch64.AppImage
./Claude_Desktop-1.26832.0-aarch64.AppImage

Update existing AppImage (delta download — only changed blocks):

appimageupdatetool Claude_Desktop-*-x86_64.AppImage
# Or from within the AppImage:
./Claude_Desktop-*-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-update

Checksums

Changes since last release

From CHANGELOG.md, 2026-08-08:

Claude Desktop v1.26832.0 - upstream switched its minifier, 31 of 45 patches re-anchored

Anthropic's v1.25927.0/v1.26832.0 releases (issue #218) came out of a new bundler toolchain, and the auto-release failed loudly as designed. Three output changes invalidated most of our regex anchors at once: string literals are now backtick template literals (process.platform===`darwin` instead of "darwin"), the "use strict"; prologue is gone from bundle heads (files open with a Sentry preamble), and the code-split bundle gained a second chunk family (index2.chunk-*.js, 130 files, next to 195 index.chunk-*.js).

All 31 affected patches are re-anchored with quote-tolerant patterns (["`] character classes), so they survive either quoting style. The patch orchestrator and validator now stage both chunk families as one logical bundle. fix_computer_use_linux additionally lost its silent-failure path: a sub-patch that does not match now exits nonzero instead of quietly writing the file back unpatched.

Substantively this release is the same app re-emitted through a new toolchain: the capability map (36 status:"unavailable" entries), the built-in MCP server roster, the Cowork VM probe shapes and every stable feature anchor are count-identical to v1.24012. There is still no native Linux Computer Use backend, so all four bundled bridges stay load-bearing. Upstream did ship new native Linux pieces alongside: a cowork-linux-helper binary and a raw smol-bin.x64.img VM image (the Cowork VM path keeps maturing on Linux), plus a chrome-native-host native-messaging binary for the Claude browser extension.

One sub-patch retired as upstreamed: the .deb now bundles that chrome-native-host binary in resources/, exactly where the packaged app looks for it - so fix_browser_tools_linux no longer redirects the native-host path to the Claude Code host under ~/.claude (that redirect existed only because the binary used to be absent from the official Linux build). Claude in Chrome now runs on upstream's own bundled native host; our patch still adds Chromium, Brave, Vivaldi and Opera discovery, the extension auto-install path and the DevTools opener.

The minifier switch also exposed one latent false success: add_growthbook_overrides anchored its injection on "use strict"; via plain string search, and the only remaining occurrence of that string now sits inside a vendored template literal - the injection landed as inert string content while reporting success. It now prepends at the bundle head and asserts its own injected marker. The other head-injecting patches already used a safe prefix check with a prepend fallback and needed no change; all ten were verified together in orchestrator order, twice for idempotency, with node --check clean on all 326 re-split bundle parts.

Settings → Extra → Deployment follows the new managed-settings schema

The key catalog now carries the six keys upstream added: skillCreationEnabled, trustBootstrapDelivery, endUserAttribution (renamed from all-lowercase enduserAttribution, which remains readable as a legacy key), the inferenceGatewayOidcAuthFlow/inferenceVertexWorkforceAuthFlow sign-in flow enums, and updateViaUpdatesHost (marked @next upstream, listed but not yet active).

Gaming themes: all six spinners redrawn as retro pixel art

The gaming themes' loading spinners were flat single-color glyphs (and the Dragon Ball a flat orange blob). Each is now a proper two-frame pixel sprite in the spirit of its game, drawn from period references on a 14-21px grid: the four PlayStation button symbols orbiting in their classic colors, a Game Boy DMG with a blinking screen, a Final Fantasy Black Mage casting sparkles, Link swinging his sword, a Warcraft peon striking a gold pile, and a shimmering 4-star Dragon Ball. All of them stay flat-fill paths with the existing flip animation, so nothing changes in the renderer.

Feature flag catalog refreshed for v1.26832.0

claude-desktop-extra.jsonc's commented-out flag list gains 14 new flags (among them the CliGovernor throttleEnabled/pressureEvictionEnabled pair, a renderer crash-loop watchdog, and resolveCloudBranch) and drops 4 that upstream removed.

Links

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