Prepared release v26.8.1 (#926)

app/MindWork AI Studio/Components/Changelog.Logs.cs

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ public partial class Changelog
     
     public static readonly Log[] LOGS = 
     [
-        new (252, "v26.8.1, build 252 (2026-08-15 12:21 UTC)", "v26.8.1.md"),
+        new (253, "v26.8.1, build 253 (2026-08-16 10:21 UTC)", "v26.8.1.md"),
         new (250, "v26.7.3, build 250 (2026-07-21 12:45 UTC)", "v26.7.3.md"),
         new (244, "v26.7.2, build 244 (2026-07-06 18:35 UTC)", "v26.7.2.md"),
         new (243, "v26.7.1, build 243 (2026-07-05 16:39 UTC)", "v26.7.1.md"),

app/MindWork AI Studio/packages.lock.json

@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@
       },
       "Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks": {
         "type": "Direct",
-        "requested": "[9.0.18, )",
-        "resolved": "9.0.18",
-        "contentHash": "ztGVXB28bi8SeplFmAx+4MkqP1ieA4UNzj/M3qyyz5tLa37Ln8x8LuaXdxzzoOdaucjQBKXSdCMFSbpQaNGIEg=="
+        "requested": "[9.0.19, )",
+        "resolved": "9.0.19",
+        "contentHash": "I9GkKrCVjzxGU1hsKSurOW6P/ABPPHARfc/MTnzIgDb8YjJ/votxKN2z7K+J3DvlQXGH0O7KqdtBseRj8j7eNQ=="
       },
       "MudBlazor": {
         "type": "Direct",

app/MindWork AI Studio/wwwroot/changelog/v26.8.1.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# v26.8.1, build 252 (2026-08-15 12:21 UTC)
+# v26.8.1, build 253 (2026-08-16 10:21 UTC)
 - Added Hetzner's experimental inference API as an LLM provider. It runs open-source models in the EU and supports text and image chats through its OpenAI-compatible API.
 - Added support for the new open source models DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro, GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7 Code and K3, as well as Qwen 3.6 and 3.8.
 - Added a prototype Visual Briefing Assistant that turns documents, data, images, audio, and video into self-contained interactive HTML briefings. When you want to test it, you have to enable this preview feature in your app settings.

app/MindWork AI Studio/wwwroot/changelog/v26.8.2.md

@@ -1 +1 @@
-# v26.8.2, build 253 (2026-08-xx xx:xx UTC)
+# v26.8.2, build 254 (2026-08-xx xx:xx UTC)

metadata.txt

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 26.8.1
-2026-08-15 12:21:19 UTC
-252
+2026-08-16 10:21:20 UTC
+253
 9.0.120 (commit 3f97250e38)
 9.0.19 (commit 8381bdb01f)
 1.97.1 (commit 8bab26f4f)
 8.15.0
 2.11.5
-1bf592994d3, release
+da68051c61a, release
 osx-arm64
 148.0.7763.0
 0.7.2

runtime/packaging/linux/org.mindworkai.AIStudio.metainfo.xml

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
   </screenshots>
 
   <releases>
-    <release type="stable" version="26.8.1" date="2026-08-15">
+    <release type="stable" version="26.8.1" date="2026-08-16">
       <description>
         <ul>
           <li>Added Hetzner's experimental inference API as an LLM provider. It runs open-source models in the EU and supports text and image chats through its OpenAI-compatible API.</li>
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@
           <li>Fixed the assistant categories when your organization hides individual assistants. A category heading could stay visible above an empty area, and the Log Viewer could disappear together with the Localization assistant. Each heading now follows the assistants actually shown below it.</li>
           <li>Fixed a removed API key staying in the operating system's credential store. When you cleared the API key of a provider, the previous key remained stored and was still used. It is now removed together with your change.</li>
           <li>Fixed AI Studio installing a second copy of itself next to an existing installation. Its updater always installs into your personal user folder, so an installation elsewhere, such as one your IT department rolled out, was never replaced. AI Studio now recognizes those installations and leaves them alone. The information page tells you which case applies to yours. For IT departments: automatic updates can now stay enabled for everybody, and the Enterprise IT documentation explains the rest.</li>
+          <li>Fixed installing an assistant on Linux when AI Studio runs as a Flatpak. The Assistant Builder was able to create an assistant, but installing it always ended with an unexpected error.</li>
+          <li>Fixed the plugins page and the assistants page reloading again and again on Linux, which started as soon as an assistant was installed. Both pages kept flickering, and nothing on them could be used anymore until you left for another page.</li>
           <li>Removed the legacy PowerPoint format (<code>.ppt</code>) from the selectable file types. AI Studio has no reader for it, so such a file could be attached but never read. The modern <code>.pptx</code> format is not affected.</li>
           <li>Upgraded dependencies to their latest versions to improve security and stability.</li>
         </ul>