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Release Wed, Aug 5, 2026 2 min read

Cline Desktop 0.0.9

Original release notes
  • Cline Code now ships as a single universal macOS download that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel - no more picking the right architecture. Existing per-architecture installs migrate to it automatically on their next update.
  • Session history can now be filtered by where a session came from - Desktop, CLI, extension, or scheduled - from a new filter control in the sidebar.
  • The composer now shows a token usage ring for the active model's context window, with cumulative cost, and it changes color as you approach the limit.
  • Skills now appear in the slash command menu alongside workflows, and commands that share a name are disambiguated instead of shadowing each other.
  • Installed plugins now show their real package names instead of all appearing as "index".
  • The agent header can be dragged to move the window again, including on read-only titles.
  • Chat message actions (copy, fork, edit, restore) no longer collide with the descenders of the message's last line.
  • Application errors are now reported in diagnostics, and the packaged app's telemetry configuration is baked into the sidecar at build time - previously the packaged build shipped with it empty, so no diagnostics were ever sent.
  • Plan mode now hard-blocks file-editing shell commands rather than relying on prompting alone; read-only investigation still works.
  • Running out of context is now recovered from automatically - the run compacts and retries once instead of failing with a raw provider error.
  • Empty model responses are now retried on every provider, not just Ollama, fixing hard "Model returned empty response" failures on OpenRouter, Cline, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
  • Claude 4.6+ and 5.x models are no longer rejected with "thinking.type.enabled is not supported".
  • Bedrock prompt caching works again - cache reads and writes were always 0 - and Bedrock foundation models now route through geo inference profiles.
  • Reasoning models on OpenAI-compatible endpoints now get the correct token parameter, and models without image support substitute image content instead of failing.
  • Refreshed the bundled provider and model catalog, adding Infomaniak and SCX.ai.
  • Upgraded the model layer to AI SDK 7 and switched Ollama to the native provider.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cline/cline/compare/desktop-v0.0.8...desktop-v0.0.9