From 10d52c8e33b2a19baf901fa307c126caff3064ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Rich <2199651+jamesarich@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:12:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore: bump VERSION_NAME_BASE to 2.8.2 (#6820)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 config.properties                                            | 2 +-
 .../linux/org.meshtastic.MeshtasticDesktop.metainfo.xml      | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config.properties b/config.properties
index e96ac2b67f..cdbb249eeb 100644
--- a/config.properties
+++ b/config.properties
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ COMPILE_SDK=37
 # Base version name for local development and fallback
 # On CI, this is overridden by the Git tag
 # Before a release, update this to the new Git tag version
-VERSION_NAME_BASE=2.8.1
+VERSION_NAME_BASE=2.8.2
 
 # Minimum firmware versions supported by this app
 MIN_FW_VERSION=2.5.14
diff --git a/desktopApp/packaging/linux/org.meshtastic.MeshtasticDesktop.metainfo.xml b/desktopApp/packaging/linux/org.meshtastic.MeshtasticDesktop.metainfo.xml
index 42f7765d5e..dfab0a674e 100644
--- a/desktopApp/packaging/linux/org.meshtastic.MeshtasticDesktop.metainfo.xml
+++ b/desktopApp/packaging/linux/org.meshtastic.MeshtasticDesktop.metainfo.xml
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@
   </screenshots>
 
   <releases>
+    <release version="2.8.2" date="2026-08-21">
+      <description>
+        <p>Stability and reliability fixes.</p>
+      </description>
+    </release>
     <release version="2.8.1" date="2026-08-02">
       <description>
         <p>In-app update notifications, native OS notifications, deep-link handling, keyboard shortcuts, window-state persistence, and many stability fixes.</p>