release aidev SIG 3/5

Cline Desktop 0.0.7: free models, subagent visibility, regional endpoint fix

Adds free Cline models with explicit "(free)" labelling and limit messaging, surfaces subagent and teammate runs in the app, and paginates session history. Matters most to users on Qwen, Moonshot, Z AI or MiniMax: a fix stops the China/international endpoint toggles being ignored, which had been silently routing regional users to the wrong host.

PUBLISHED2026-07-29
OBSERVED2026-08-11
AGE13d
SOURCES1

Added

  • System tray icon showing app status and the number of running agent sessions
  • Session history paginated in ten-session pages, older history fetched on demand
  • Session favouriting, ordering by most recent activity, consistent status dot colours across views
  • Subagent and teammate runs from a session shown with status and results
  • Free Cline models supported and labelled "(free)", with a free-tier limit message that includes the reset time
  • Chat: tool-specific icons on tool disclosures, elapsed thinking time, restyled reasoning sections, aligned timestamps, message actions that no longer shift layout

Fixed

  • China/international endpoint toggles for Qwen, Moonshot, Z AI and MiniMax were ignored, silently routing regional users to the wrong host
  • Tool calls failed when a model emitted a line number as a string (e.g. insert_line: "3"), costing a retry round trip
  • Bundled provider and model catalog refreshed

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