Cline Desktop v0.0.17 — unified hub, redesigned Models page, Voice settings, grouped sidebar sessions
Cline (Cline Labs)
v0.0.17 released Aug 25 09:06. Unified hub for plugins / MCP / Skills / Rules / Hooks / Tools. Redesigned Models page. New Voice settings. Grouped sidebar sessions (cleaner conversation grouping). Bundles the same v4.1.13-15 SDK fixes that shipped as SDK v0.0.79 and CLI v3.0.58 on Aug 24 (the Cline CLI/SDK releases just rebuilt bundles with the same fixes; not surfaced as separate items). v4.1.13 (Aug 22) restored tool calling for custom OpenAI-Compatible models whose capability list was inferred from convenience flags like `supportsReasoning` and fixed Hub-backed session durability across Hub restarts; v4.1.14 (Aug 23) added the model catalog refresh — Claude Fable 5, Grok 4.6 on Vertex, several DeepSeek V4 Flash variants (including vision preview), MiMo v2.5, Qwen3.8 27B, Gemma 4 26B, LongCat 2.0, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, Thinking Machines Inkling — plus restored task-completion telemetry; v4.1.15 (Aug 23) fixed the `Use MCP servers` toggle to actually auto-approve all MCP tools (prior behavior only auto-approved tools individually opted in, so the toggle appeared to do nothing).
Why it matters
The unified hub is the biggest UX direction change Cline has shipped since the MCP integration: one surface for plugins, MCP servers, skills, rules, hooks, and tools replaces several separate panels. For backend purposes, the v4.1.14 model catalog refresh is a notable clean-up of the Anaconda/Pip-style diversity in Cline's model set (Fable 5, Grok 4.6, DeepSeek V4 Flash variants, MiMo 2.5, Qwen3.8, Gemma 4, LongCat, Nemotron 3.5, Inkling). v4.1.15 silently fixes a UX bug where the MCP toggle appeared to do nothing.
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