patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra v4.29.0

Claude Desktop 4.29.0

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Claude Desktop 4.29.0

This release provides Claude Desktop version 4.29.0 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/v4.29.0/claude-desktop-extra-4.29.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
# ARM64
sudo pacman -U https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra/releases/download/v4.29.0/claude-desktop-extra-4.29.0-1-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_4.29.0-1_amd64.deb
# ARM64
sudo apt install ./claude-desktop-extra_4.29.0-1_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-4.29.0-1.x86_64.rpm
# ARM64
sudo dnf install ./claude-desktop-extra-4.29.0-1.aarch64.rpm

NixOS / Nix

nix run github:patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra

AppImage (Any Distro)

# x86_64
chmod +x Claude_Desktop-4.29.0-x86_64.AppImage
./Claude_Desktop-4.29.0-x86_64.AppImage
# ARM64
chmod +x Claude_Desktop-4.29.0-aarch64.AppImage
./Claude_Desktop-4.29.0-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, 2026-10-28:

Upstream v4.29.0

• Cowork finds QEMU again on RHEL 9, Rocky, Alma and NixOS. v4.29.0 only accepts /usr/bin/qemu-system-<arch> and no longer searches $PATH, so Cowork said "requires QEMU" where QEMU lives elsewhere (RHEL's qemu-kvm through our shim, the Nix store, /usr/local/bin). fix_cowork_firmware_paths_linux now tries CLAUDE_QEMU_PATH, then /usr/bin, then $PATH; the Nix package sets CLAUDE_QEMU_PATH, and --diagnose reports the same order.
• The third-party setup window is patched again. v4.29.0 ships it as resources/ion-dist.asar instead of a directory; the build now extracts, patches and repacks it, and a missing or unexpected layout fails the build instead of skipping both ion-dist patches.
• Hung window: upstream now reloads by itself. v4.29.0 expires the watchdog's tokens and re-checks 30 s after a kill attempt, so a renderer death after an attempt no longer leaves the window blank until quit; our hand-off of that death to the reload path (fix_renderer_clean_exit_reload sub-patch C) is retired. The SIGKILL fallback stays: on Linux the kill attempt asks the renderer to crash itself, which does nothing when the whole renderer process is stalled. The clean-exit reload (#287) and the log line for suppressed deaths (fix_renderer_gone_suppressed_log) stay too; upstream still drops both silently.
• Re-fitted to v4.29.0: Computer Use lock acquire (fix_computer_use_linux), the remaining renderer sub-patches, and transcript limits (add_feature_transcript_limits, which now also covers Cowork VM transcript copies through the same reader).
• Extra -> Deployment lists the new managed keys inferenceTokenWarningPercent and userFileUploadsEnabled.
• Audited: feature flags (635 -> 672), platform gates (no new macOS/Windows-only feature that Linux lacks), built-in MCP servers, and the deployment-key, custom-models, quick-open and panel-tabs anchors. Locale files and claude-browser-shim.js moved into app.asar upstream; nothing of ours reads them.

Links

• Full Changelog