cline desktop-v0.0.49 — Desktop v0.0.49

Cline Desktop 0.0.49 adds the tools for checking an agent's work inside the app itself. Cline Desktop is the coding agent's standalone app, introduced in September partly to reach people who don't spend their day in a code editor. This release adds a Changes button that shows line counts and opens a pane listing the files changed in the last turn or across the whole session, each with a diff. A project files panel shows a file tree with git status letters and a marker on files the session touched, and an integrated terminal opens at the bottom of the window, according to the release notes.

Pull request status moves into a header button whose menu shows the PR's merge status and checks, failing checks first, with options to open or create the PR. A new Local Models settings page manages models running through Ollama and LM Studio, including a chip in the message box that shows how much memory the loaded model uses. That fits the app's stated focus on open-weight models, which people can run on their own machines.

Several fixes remove ways the app could get stuck. If Cline's background service, the Hub, fails to start, the app now shows a startup screen with Retry and a diagnostics export instead of failing every action. Sessions with transcripts over about 8 MB can be resumed again; the notes say the transcript had been sent to the Hub twice, which exceeded its message size limit. Opening a task already running in another Cline app attaches to that run instead of starting a second copy that could not be stopped. Change checks no longer spawn thousands of git processes in workspaces with many untracked files. The release also carries the same agent fixes as the matching CLI version, including dropping Google's built-in search from Gemini requests, which the notes say broke free-tier keys.