Cline

Check your model: unpinned Cline setups now default to Sonnet 5.5. The switch covers Cline and OpenRouter providers with no pinned model. Catalog adds Haiku 5.5; ~20 other providers change defaults. Reasoning-off 400s fixed on several frontier models.

Jump around long Cline Desktop chats with a clickable outline. The outline sits along the conversation and makes plugin failure status clearer.

Check your model: Cline’s Oct 26, 2026 updates change default models again. ClinePass now defaults to Kimi K3.1 Pro, and most other providers get new defaults, mostly Kimi K3.1 Pro, MiniMax M3.1 Flash or DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017. With no model chosen, the Cline provider uses Claude Sonnet 5.5 again.

See every file your agent touched, right in Cline Desktop. A new Changes button opens a pane listing the files changed in the last turn or across the whole session, with a diff of each.

The update also adds a project file tree, a built-in terminal and a Local Models page for Ollama and LM Studio.

Check your model: unpinned Cline provider setups now default to Gemini 4 Argon. OpenRouter stays on Claude Sonnet 5.5, but over 20 other providers change defaults too, so pin the model you want to keep.

Also new: Cloud sessions, rolling out gradually, run a job in a hosted sandbox on a GitHub repo and branch you pick and keep going after you close the editor.

Check your model: the Cline provider’s default in Cline CLI and Desktop is Claude Sonnet 5.5 again. It’s back at the top of Cline’s recommended list. Also fixed: GPT-6 models now work on OpenAI and Azure OpenAI-compatible endpoints, where every request used to be rejected.

Billing display change: Cline hides cost estimates for flat-rate plans. That covers providers such as ClinePass and Claude Code billing.