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Cline Desktop v0.0.37 Released: Adds Built-in Updater & Highlights Dialog, Patches Bedrock Reasoning Config

Cline Desktop (@cline_dev) has shipped release v0.0.37. The update introduces a comprehensive lifecycle management experience, embedding a dedicated 'About' view within Settings that enables in-app update checks, one-click restarts, and inline changelog inspection. Users are greeted with an updated 'What's New' dialog highlighting recent architectural milestones including SSH remotes, Git worktrees, pull request telemetry, and parallel sub-agents. Crucially, the release patches an AWS Bedrock inference bug that triggered 'Unknown parameter: reasoningConfig' on OpenAI models, while adding a macOS diagnostic export shortcut.

Cline Desktop v0.0.37 Released: Adds Built-in Updater & Highlights Dialog, Patches Bedrock Reasoning Config

Key Takeaways

  • Introduces an in-app About settings pane featuring direct update checking, automated restart patching, and release notes.
  • Launches a unified What's New dialog summarizing SSH remotes, Git worktrees, PR composer status, and parallel sub-agents.
  • Fixes an AWS Bedrock regression causing OpenAI models to crash with 'Unknown parameter: reasoningConfig'.
  • Adds a direct macOS Help menu shortcut for one-click diagnostic log exporting.
  • Signed binaries for macOS, Windows, and Linux available directly on GitHub Releases.
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Cline Desktop v0.0.37: About & What's new surfaces; Bedrock OpenAI inference profiles fix reasoningConfig errors

Cline Desktop v0.0.37 (2026-09-26) adds Settings → About (version/channel, check/restart updates, recent release notes, report issue), a one-time What's new dialog after updates, macOS Help→Export Diagnostics, and fixes Bedrock OpenAI inference-profile calls that failed with Unknown parameter reasoningConfig when reasoning effort was set.

Cline Desktop v0.0.37: About & What's new surfaces; Bedrock OpenAI inference profiles fix reasoningConfig errors

Key Takeaways

  • Shipped: desktop-v0.0.37 vs desktop-v0.0.36 on GitHub Releases
  • UX: Settings About page with version/channel, update buttons, release notes links, Report an issue
  • Onboarding: one-time What's new after update; Highlights on About reopens it
  • Ops: macOS Help→Export Diagnostics opens the export directly
  • Bedrock: OpenAI models via us.openai./global.openai. inference profiles no longer fail on reasoningConfig when reasoning effort is set
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Cline Desktop v0.0.36: proxy-safe local hub, fit-to-screen UI, Bedrock GPT-6 without cross-region

Cline Desktop v0.0.36 (2026-09-25) skips system HTTP(S) proxies for local hub checks, fits oversized windows to small/scaled displays, loads plugin slash commands on workspace open, and runs Bedrock GPT-6/GPT-5.6 without cross-region inference (India via in. profiles).

Cline Desktop v0.0.36: proxy-safe local hub, fit-to-screen UI, Bedrock GPT-6 without cross-region

Key Takeaways

  • Local hub checks bypass system HTTP(S) proxies (Clash/v2ray/corporate)
  • Oversized windows shrink to fit and center on scaled 1080p displays
  • Plugin slash commands load on workspace open with background retry
  • Bedrock GPT-6/GPT-5.6 work without cross-region; India uses in. profiles
  • Artifacts: deb/rpm/dmg/exe + signatures; Providers panel scrolls model lists
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Cline Desktop v0.0.35: official Linux x64 .deb/.rpm, working plugin slash commands, Diagnostics export

On 2026-09-24 Cline shipped Desktop v0.0.35 with first-party Linux x64 .deb/.rpm beside macOS/Windows (no AppImage yet), GTK folder picker, background updates applied on Restart now, real plugin slash-command handlers, redacted Diagnostics export, and compact-and-retry when local models hit output-token limits.

Cline Desktop v0.0.35: official Linux x64 .deb/.rpm, working plugin slash commands, Diagnostics export

Key Takeaways

  • Linux packages: amd64 .deb and x86_64 .rpm on the desktop-v0.0.35 release; no AppImage yet
  • Plugin slash commands run real handlers; a broken plugin no longer breaks every slash prompt
  • Diagnostics Export strips keys, credential-shaped values, prompts, and home path for safe issue reports
  • Local open-weight replies that hit output-token caps compact once and retry instead of failing the run
  • Catalog at 6,386 models; 19 provider defaults move, 11 of them to Claude Opus 5.5
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Cline ships jev-browser plugin: give TypeSafe Jev a background Chrome in Desktop

Cline released a Marketplace plugin named jev-browser that gives TypeSafe Jev a background Chrome inside Cline Desktop. After installing and saving a Vercel AI Gateway API key, browser tasks can launch Chrome in the background; the team says results have been striking.

Key Takeaways

  • Install jev-browser from Cline Desktop Marketplace under Customize > Plugins.
  • Save a Vercel AI Gateway API key to ~/.cline/plugins/cline-jev-browser.config.json and restart.
  • Browser tasks launch Chrome in the background, pairing Jev decisions with real web actions.
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Cline Desktop makes Kimi K3 free for a limited time to welcome new users

Cline said Kimi K3 is now free in Cline Desktop for a limited time to celebrate new users and give them more tokens to explore. The team will keep it running as long as it can—a promotional quota for the open-weights Desktop experience.

Key Takeaways

  • Official @cline: Kimi K3 is free in Cline Desktop for a limited time.
  • Meant to welcome new users with extra exploration tokens; duration depends on capacity.
  • Fits Cline Desktop open-weights / ClinePass / BYOK positioning and lowers the try-cost.
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Cline Desktop launches (macOS/Windows beta): native UI for open-weight models with ClinePass and BYOK

Cline officially launched Cline Desktop (macOS/Windows beta), a native desktop UI for open-weight models via ClinePass (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Musespark-1.3, and other free models) or BYOK with any provider. It can import sessions from Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, plus scheduled agent runs, a marketplace for plugins/MCP/skills, web search, and voice input at cline.bot/desktop.

Key Takeaways

  • Official desktop beta: native UI for open-weight models on macOS/Windows.
  • ClinePass free models include DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and Musespark-1.3; BYOK supported.
  • Imports Claude Code/Codex/OpenCode sessions; scheduled runs plus MCP/skills marketplace.
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Cline Desktop v0.0.26: Composer shows branch PR number, merge state, diff stats, and CI checks

Community coverage notes Cline Desktop v0.0.26 (github.com/cline/cline releases/tag/desktop-v0.0.26): Composer can show the current branch’s GitHub PR number, merge state, diff stats, and CI checks, plus skill on/off toggles, CLI auth-error fixes, and a reserved-run stop bugfix—pushing coding agents toward one-screen PR/CI awareness.

Key Takeaways

  • Composer shows PR number, merge state, diff stats, and CI for the current branch.
  • Also skill toggles, CLI auth-error fixes, and reserved-run stop fixes.
  • Moves coding agents toward one-screen PR/CI handling.
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