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v4.1.19 fixes opening a repository containing a file named rg.exe, git.exe or powershell.exe running that file in place of the real program. Bare program names resolved through the workspace directory before PATH, so a planted executable ran with the user's privileges as soon as the workspace was indexed. Cline now sets Windows' NoDefaultCurrentDirectoryInExePath at startup in both the VS Code extension and the JetBrains core, and child processes inherit it. Cloning an untrusted repo on Windows was enough.
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A standalone macOS and Windows desktop beta released September 14, moving the open-source agent out of the VS Code extension slot; the releases page shows Desktop v0.0.26 on September 11, v0.0.27 on September 13 and v0.0.28 on September 15, so it's shipping daily (GitHub). It...
Cline released @cline/sdk on May 13, an open-source TypeScript agent runtime that powers their CLI, VS Code, and JetBrains extensions. Running claude-opus-4.7, Cline CLI scores 74.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.0. Claude Code on the same model: 69.4%. Same model. Different harness. Al...
Roo Code announced it will archive its VS Code extension repo on May 15 and merge back into Cline, the project it originally forked from. CEO Matt Rubens said the team needs to "constantly destroy and recreate to keep up with what's newly possible." Translation: the extension...
Released August 15, v2.1.233 fixes Windows paths written with the NT device prefix \??\ slipping past UNC path validation. It follows the Git Bash Cygwin-symlink bypass and the PowerShell variable-writing parameter bypass in 2.1.232. The same release stops nested git repositor...
Announced September 4 and gated on developer-class hardware: 64GB+ unified memory and 250+ GB/s bandwidth, enough to run 30B-parameter models without paying per token. It preinstalls languages, runtimes and source control, pins Terminal and VS Code, turns on file extensions, h...
Google released Antigravity IDE Extensions, putting its agentic coding platform into VS Code (macOS, Linux, Windows), JetBrains IDEs from 2026.2.1 (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, CLion, Rider), Zed, and Visual Studio 2026 in preview. One Antigravity account works everywh...
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