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Cline changelog: what's new each month

Every stable Cline release summarised by month: the highlights, new features, improvements, fixes and anything you need to act on. 3 months covered; the current month updates daily.

October 2026 · so far

7 releases: 0.0.90 → 3.0.69

October brought performance improvements for agent teams in long sessions, a refreshed model catalog with new defaults across multiple providers, and new connector management features for organizing integrations. The month also included fixes for Windows MCP server launching and custom provider endpoint compatibility.

Highlights

  • Agent teams no longer slow down during long sessions or while teammates stream responses.
  • New Connectors tab in Customize with browse, search, and suggested connector combinations.
  • Unsent prompts are now preserved when switching between sessions.
  • MCP servers on Windows now load correctly with npx and uvx launchers.
  • Models that require specific reasoning levels are now handled properly.

New

  • Slash command /compact to summarize conversations and free up context.
  • Connectors tab shows brand logos and indicates how many tools each connector adds to sessions.
  • Browse section in Connectors tab lists the full catalog in a two-column searchable view.
  • Suggested section offers ready-made connector combinations.
  • One-time What's new dialog for existing users introducing Connectors feature.
  • Agent teams data compacts automatically on first open.
  • apiKeyOptional provider fact for optional authentication on certain providers.
  • Opt-in Langfuse tracing for BYOK providers with operator tags and metadata support.

Improved

  • Marketplace rows now show item type to distinguish between items with the same name.
  • Category filters consolidated into a single dropdown in Marketplace.
  • Sessions started in the app are highlighted in sidebar while open.
  • Sessions no longer marked unread by their own messages.
  • Model catalog refreshed with new defaults for DigitalOcean, GMI Cloud, NanoGPT, Nvidia, and Ofox.
  • Stdio MCP servers get 10-second initialization budget instead of 3 seconds.
  • Reasoning level for Cline and OpenAI-compatible adapters snaps to model's advertised effort levels.
  • Cloud sessions now use the same model picker as Cline on the web.

Fixed

  • Custom Anthropic endpoints like Azure AI Foundry no longer fail with 400 errors.
  • Responses ending without recognized finish reasons are retried instead of treated as complete.
  • OpenAI-compatible providers no longer show deprecation warning on every response chunk.
  • cline config --json now prints JSON output instead of opening interactive view.
  • Portable reasoning levels for Kimi K3 and similar models now use supported levels.
  • Connectors unavailability now shows sign-in card or rollout notice explaining why.

September 2026

39 releases: 0.0.82 → 0.0.40

September brought major updates across Cline's platforms, including a new Linux app, SSH remote support, and improved reliability for long sessions and API errors. The month focused on stability, concurrent operations, and expanding platform coverage.

Highlights

  • Cline Desktop now runs on Linux with native .deb and .rpm packages for x64 and ARM64 architectures.
  • Work remotely over SSH with the app staying local; add and test hosts in Settings and pick from the environment selector.
  • Sub-agents spawned in the same step now run concurrently instead of sequentially, speeding up delegated work.
  • Model turns that fail mid-stream with transient errors are now retried up to three times with backoff instead of failing immediately.
  • Sessions can now start in their own git worktree, and long sessions compact automatically when they need to.

New

  • Agent Plugins managed through the Hub: packages under ~/.agents/plugins/ are discovered and their skills exposed as plugin-name:skill-name.
  • Import conversation history from Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode with automatic summarization on resume.
  • Composer shows the current branch's GitHub pull request status including merge state, changed lines, and CI checks.
  • Plugin slash commands now work in the desktop app, running handlers and starting new tasks from results.
  • Voice input works on macOS and streams live with provider-backed transcription (OpenAI, Vercel AI Gateway, ElevenLabs).
  • Settings now has Diagnostics (export logs and session manifests) and About (version info and recent release notes) pages.
  • Oversized MCP and Composio tool results can now be read in full through a pageable preview.
  • Custom providers from providers.json/models.json now run on the agent path, not just appear in pickers.

Improved

  • Model output allowances now scale with the model's advertised limit, instead of a flat 32,000 tokens.
  • Context compaction triggers on provider-reported input-token counts instead of character estimates, working better with dense content.
  • Streaming output no longer throttled by hook forwarding; tokens flow faster to clients.
  • Command output from background processes now streams into the command row while running instead of appearing only on completion.
  • Feature-flag polls for the same account now share one in-flight request instead of duplicating traffic.
  • Run-start hooks can now inject context through a new appendContext channel while keeping stop/reason assignable.
  • Checkpoints no longer re-hash unchanged untracked files on every turn, eliminating delays in multi-GB workspaces.
  • Terminal commands that succeed without printing anything are now reported as empty output instead of treated as shell failures.

Fixed

  • Tool calling no longer silently disabled for gateway models whose catalog entries declare no capabilities.
  • Empty capability lists no longer strip image input from file reads.
  • Langfuse tracing now works in minified release builds by detecting the OpenTelemetry provider correctly.
  • Restored checkpoints no longer silently knock off commits made after the checkpoint was taken.
  • Remote MCP servers with connection budget now fail fast (10s) instead of stalling session startup for the full 60s timeout.
  • Hub daemon no longer leaks processes when one MCP server blocks the rest from shutting down.

August 2026

27 releases: 3.0.55 → 0.0.21

August brought major stability improvements to session handling and hub management, along with a significant rebrand from Cline Code to Cline and a major redesign of the interface and settings pages.

Highlights

  • The product was renamed from Cline Code to Cline with refreshed branding and icons.
  • Sessions now survive hub restarts and upgrades through durable event logging and client replay.
  • The interface was substantially redesigned with a new Customize hub, reorganized sidebar with project grouping, and dedicated Marketplace page.
  • Added voice input, native macOS notifications, image generation, web search, and command streaming into transcripts.
  • Fixed critical bugs causing hub instances to shut each other down and sessions to disconnect abnormally.

New

  • Voice input: dictate into the composer and have speech transcribed using your configured provider and model.
  • Native macOS notifications when tasks finish or need user input, configurable in Settings.
  • Image generation: models that support it can now produce images during tasks, rendered inline in transcripts.
  • Web search during tasks for models with built-in search capability, toggled in Feature Settings.
  • Agent-managed durable todos and one-time or recurring scheduled tasks scoped to workspaces.
  • Cline Desktop for Windows with auto-updating, background installation, and code-signed installer.
  • Marketplace two-pane explorer with browsable list, category filters, and full metadata display.
  • Server-side feature flags that refresh when account changes.

Improved

  • Streaming assistant markdown no longer flashes back to raw text during rendering.
  • Commands now stream output into transcripts as they run with preserved terminal colors instead of appearing all at once.
  • Finished agent runs collapse into a single expandable summary instead of burying the final answer.
  • Redesigned question cards with explicit option selection, button submission, and arrow-key navigation.
  • Session rows show trash buttons on hover for quick deletion with confirmation.
  • Model selector now leads with Recommended and Free tiers with descriptions instead of raw alphabetized list.
  • Skill slash commands load through the skills tool instead of being pasted into messages.
  • Hub now refuses new mutating work while draining to prepare for upgrades without losing work.

Fixed

  • Two Cline installations on different builds no longer shut each other's Hub daemon down in a loop, killing live sessions.
  • Custom OpenAI-Compatible models with inferred capability lists had tool calling silently disabled.
  • Background hub process ballooning in memory during long sessions by broadcasting full transcript with every update.
  • PostToolUse hooks running fire-and-forget with their output and cancel controls discarded.
  • Codebase search tool crashing on files containing a single enormous line.
  • Provider-executed tool activity being dropped entirely from runtime events and transcript.

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