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Cline Desktop 0.0.18

Released · Cline

Changes MCP server config, skills and plugins

What the release notes say

  • The sidebar is time-sorted again by default, with collapsible Pinned / Scheduled / Tasks sections and a one-click toggle to switch to project grouping (the old dropdown is gone). Scheduled sessions are marked with a clock icon, and the list starts taller and grows to fill the sidebar instead of stranding rows over empty space
  • Session rows now show a trash button on hover for quick deletion, with the same confirmation the row's context menu uses
  • Customize is now your installed inventory only. Browsing moved to a dedicated Marketplace page — one list across plugins, MCP servers, and skills with type-filter and tag chips — and the two pages link to each other from their headers and from sidebar sub-tabs
  • Schedule cards are now click targets: clicking a card anywhere outside its controls opens its details, the redundant eye button is gone, and the edit / run / pause / delete buttons are large enough to hit
  • Schedule details are one scrollable view instead of Overview/Runs tabs, showing the meta grid, the configuration, and the most recent runs with a "Show all N runs" expander
  • "Run now" now hands you into the session it starts
  • Scheduled and automation runs no longer render their internal [SYSTEM] steering messages as if you had typed them — a finished scheduled session reads as prompt, work summary, answer
  • Fixed opening a scheduled session while it runs leaving it stuck on the thinking shimmer until you switched away and back
  • Fixed installing plugins and MCP servers from the Marketplace failing with Executable not found in $PATH: "cline" — installs now run in-process and no longer require a Cline CLI on your machine
  • Fixed quitting the app beach-balling for several seconds
  • Cost estimates are no longer shown for subscription-billed providers (ClinePass, ChatGPT via Codex, and Claude Code), where an API-rate dollar figure read as a real charge on top of your subscription
  • Fixed hover cards flashing closed and reopening when clicked
  • The macOS DMG install window now has custom Cline artwork and layout
  • Credentials embedded in git remote URLs are now redacted from the workspace information sent to the model

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cline/cline/compare/desktop-v0.0.17...desktop-v0.0.18