- Mermaid diagrams in chat now render inline as interactive diagrams, with copy, download, fullscreen, and pan/zoom. Links inside a diagram go through the same confirmation dialog as other links, showing the real destination before anything opens
- If the Cline Hub connection drops mid-chat, the app now reconnects your session automatically for up to a minute instead of failing right away. Queued messages are sent once the session is back. If it can't reconnect, the turn ends with a notice so you can resend
- Local and self-hosted providers that don't need an API key (LM Studio, Ollama, vLLM, LiteLLM, and custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints) can start sessions again. They failed every turn with "Missing API key"
- MCP servers launched with
npxoruvxon Windows now load. They often took longer than the 3-second startup limit and were silently dropped. The default is now 10 seconds - Claude through a custom Anthropic base URL (Azure AI Foundry, corporate gateways) no longer fails with a 400 error
- Kimi K3 and other models that only accept certain reasoning levels no longer reject requests. The app picks the closest level the model supports
- If a model's response ends without a recognized finish reason, the agent asks it to continue once instead of treating the response as complete
- Refreshed the model catalog. The Cline free list adds Solar Mini 4 and drops DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and space-bunny-alpha. Default models change for AKI.IO, Blue Claw, CoralBricks, CrossModel, DevPass, LLM Gateway, Mistral, NanoGPT, Requesty, Neon, Subconscious, and The Grid AI
Full Changelog: https://github.com/cline/cline/compare/desktop-v0.0.43...desktop-v0.0.44