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V4.1 Flash rewrites the price list, and Harness changes its session format
DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash, cuts Flash prices by up to 60% and starts retiring V4 Pro, while DeepSeek Harness lands four releases in four days — including session format V3 and V4.1 Flash as the default model for new sessions.
Read issueGPT-6 Astra lands, and Harness rebuilds its foundations
OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra and declares the AGI era, while DeepSeek Harness rolls out v0.1.2-rc.1 and v0.1.3-alpha.1 with a v2 session format, a new SessionHandle API, and the SQLite backend removed.
Read issueDeepSeek gets honest about security
DeepSeek's safety note admits Harness isn't security-audited, while the v0.1.2-alpha line ships subagent model selection, exact token usage, and a Windows Python SDK.
Read issueHarness hits its first security scare — RCE at CVSS 9.8
A critical unauthenticated RCE (CVSS 9.8) rocks DeepSeek Harness, alongside rc.8 multimodal, the Claude Code/Codex scheduling layer, and weekend off-peak pricing.
Read issueDeepSeek Harness goes open source — and V4 pricing goes time-of-day
This week DeepSeek did two things: open-sourced its Harness agent runtime and switched V4 API billing to peak/off-peak tiers. Here's our read on both — what changed, what to read, and what it means for anyone building on DSH.
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