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Cline Desktop 0.0.8: edit an earlier message to fork and rewind the workspace

Editing any earlier message now forks the session at that point, rewinds the workspace to that run's checkpoint, and re-runs from the edited prompt, with transactional restores. Checkpoint reliability is fixed across restarts and compaction, and OpenRouter now defaults to Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.

PUBLISHED2026-08-02
OBSERVED2026-08-11
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  • Edit an earlier message: session forks at that point, workspace rewinds to that run's checkpoint, re-runs from the edited prompt; restores are transactional and workspace-atomic
  • Checkpoints created reliably after restart, after compaction, and on the first turn of a resumed session; restore rewinds the whole workspace; restores after closing and reopening a session fixed
  • Long-running chat turns no longer time out mid-response
  • Reasoning controls (effort, thinking budget, on/off) sourced from the shared model catalog per model rather than provider-specific guesses
  • OpenRouter default model is now Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5
  • Gateway-forwarded provider errors show the real upstream message (e.g. context-length errors) instead of [object Object]
  • Ollama: empty responses retried, response-start timeout raised to 5 minutes
  • MCP servers honour their configured per-server timeout
  • API keys for several providers no longer lost on migration from an older install; unknown/removed legacy model ids fall back to the default Cline model
  • Agentic compaction persists reliably; a single-file .clinerules (older format) no longer aborts the rules and config scan
  • Video input no longer dropped for capable models; workspace hint not sent for filesystem-root paths; custom OpenAI-Compatible model info carries into the seeded catalog
  • "Enable R1 messages format" option removed from the OpenAI-Compatible provider

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