Qwen Code Desktop’s new release adds ARM Linux builds and tools for examining managed sessions. Users can inspect tool calls, search conversations and select time ranges in a session’s trajectory. Screen sharing also reaches browser voice calls. The changes concern the coding assistant’s supported computers and the visibility of its work, as described in the project’s release notes.
The coding assistant Qwen Code Desktop now includes a separate build for Linux computers using the aarch64 ARM architecture. Its developers also added checks keeping both Linux build paths on Ubuntu 22.04’s glibc baseline, the system library on which the packages depend. The ARM terminal component is pinned in standalone packages, and the release requires all mandatory prebuilt components. These changes are documented in the project’s own release notes.[1]
Web Shell, the browser interface for coding sessions, gains conversation search and time-range selection. Selecting an interval in the trajectory overview narrows the accompanying table. Users can zoom or pan that timeline, which also shows idle periods, and inspect tool calls associated with a particular prompt. Session-creation and channel-restoration failures retain their diagnostic information. An added option disables the desktop’s startup update check.[1]
Shared-screen video can enter browser voice calls, while the native macOS host connection requires opt-in. Mobile access also needs an explicit choice. Private and group channels receive separate access policies, with messages directed to sessions according to their prefixes. Image handling has additional safeguards: oversized images from MCP tools are bounded, media types are determined from file bytes, and reattached older images receive labels distinguishing them from current ones.[1]
