Cline Release Notes

Added

• Show which extension variant is active — "Legacy" or "Next" — next to the version in the settings About page, in both bundles of the combined rollout package.

Changed

• Remove vestigial MCP server-key machinery from McpHub — native MCP tool calls now route by server name instead of a random in-memory uid, so routing survives restarts and server list changes.

Changed

• Convert the stable extension to a combined A/B package: one VSIX containing both the current (legacy) extension and the new SDK-based extension, plus a loader that activates exactly one per window via a staged remote rollout. For nearly all users nothing changes — the loader activates the same extension as 4.0.12; a small percentage (starting at 1%) is gradually opted into the SDK-based extension. If the new extension fails to activate, the loader falls back to the current one in the same window. Settings and credentials are shared between the two.

Added

• Add support for free Cline models, shown as "(free)" in the model picker, with a dedicated error card that includes the reset time when the free limit is reached.

Fixed

• Keep Claude Code responses that were already streamed when the CLI exits with a max-turns error, instead of discarding a valid response.

• Initial release

Added

• Add Claude Opus 5 across the Anthropic, Claude Code, Bedrock, Vertex, Cline, and OpenRouter providers, including 1M context window variants.
• Add Moonshot Kimi K3 support.
• Include the host plugin version in telemetry events.

Fixed

• Correct pricing for the Claude Opus 1M context variants, which overstated costs for requests above 200k tokens.
• Enable native tool calling for Kimi K3 models, fixing empty responses.

Added

• Add telemetry to track when Cline reaches the consecutive mistake limit.

Added

• Add GPT-5.6 ChatGPT subscription models.

Changed

• Soften and shorten the message shown when Cline hits the consecutive mistake limit.

Fixed

• Handle cumulative usage snapshots from OpenAI-compatible providers so token counts are no longer over-reported.
• Load skills from files saved as UTF-8 with a byte-order mark (BOM).

Added

• Add more models to the GCP Vertex provider, plus a free-form entry option in the model dropdown for specifying custom Vertex models.

Added

• Add a ClinePass limit-reached error with a one-click option to switch to Cline usage-based billing.
• Allow selecting Cline free models on the ClinePass provider, organized into Subscribed and Free tabs with model descriptions.

Changed

• Refine ClinePass onboarding and provider settings copy, and open the "learn more" link via the in-app URL handler.
• Remove the Cline model picker recommendation copy.

Removed

• Remove all references to GLM 5.1.

Fixed

• Generalize the model capability warning so it applies more broadly.

Added

• Add support for Claude Sonnet 5 across the Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, Claude Code, SAP AI Core, OpenRouter, and Vercel AI Gateway providers, including model picker and recommended-model updates.

Changed

• Fully remove the ClinePass feature flag so ClinePass is available everywhere in the UI — onboarding, settings, the welcome promo banner, and the credit-limit "Switch to ClinePass" action.

Changed

• Enable the ClinePass provider for all users by removing the feature-flag gate that previously fell back to the standard Cline provider.

Added

• Add reasoning effort support (including xhigh) for DeepSeek thinking models.
• Improve the ClinePass provider experience with clearer reasoning controls and model selection.

Fixed

• Show reasoning effort controls for ClinePass models and align ClinePass model resolution with the rest of the provider.
• Prefer canonical Cline Z.ai model ids and polish ClinePass and Z.ai model metadata.
• Fix environment variable replacement in the webview.
• Default focus chain settings in webview state so the toggle reflects the correct value on load.

Changed

• Roll the stable VS Code extension back to the pre-SDK-migration codebase to resolve regressions reported in 4.0.0. This release ships the 3.89.2 extension code under a higher version number so existing 4.0.0 users receive the update. SDK-migration work continues separately on main.

Fixed

• Complete the fix for the Anthropic provider on VS Code 1.123 and later by upgrading the bundled Anthropic SDK to a release compatible with the Node 24 runtime.
• Update the Vertex AI provider to a compatible Anthropic Vertex SDK release so it works with the upgraded Anthropic SDK.

Fixed

• Restore the Anthropic provider on VS Code 1.123 and later, where the updated Node 24 runtime broke the bundled Anthropic SDK.
• Handle the DeepSeek V4 reasoning format.

Added

• Add Claude Fable 5 model support.

Fixed

• Fix MiniMax M3 thinking controls across gateways.

Changed

• Clean up the Codex model list.