Cline v3.40.0
Cline v3.40.0 was released on .
Summary
What's Changed remove unused sentry dependency by @celestial-vault in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7823 add atomic file write by @celestial-vault in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7754...
Release Context
- This was the 16th Cline release of 2025 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Cline v3.39.2 (December 2, 2025).
Shipped around the same time
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Release Notes
What's Changed remove unused sentry dependency by @celestial-vault in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7823 add atomic file write by @celestial-vault in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7754 feat: set default thinking level for Gemini 3 Pro models by @abeatrix in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7831 set the cli's 'ide version' to just the cli version rather than being blank, to make environmenthistory work for CLI by @Garoth in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7712 feat: add mode and token metrics info to storage messages [CLIENTS-26] by @abeatrix in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7795 fix(bedrock): add sts client userAgentAppId by @jackrein in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7719 correctly handle new and old tool call formats for context rewriting by @0xToshii in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7809 feat: applypatch auto approve by @canvrno in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7777 Don't log otel events to the console because they are really spammy by @sjf in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7841 added subpages and content to hooks by @jl-codes in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7797 fix: OpenAI Response API message format by @abeatrix in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7842 markdown styling fix by @pashpashpash in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7840 Fix changeset converter by @arafatkatze in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7851 docs: remove Advanced Patterns and Testing & Debugging from Hooks docs by @jl-codes in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7869 Revert "readTaskHistory - don't return empty array on parse failure" by @saoudrizwan in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7874 support multi-index search over inner messages to find file mentions for context rewriting by @0xToshii in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7850 feat: add auto-recovery for corrupted task history state by @abeatrix in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7875 fix: consolidate successive error retry messages in chat UI by @saoudrizwan in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7880 Changeset version bump by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7865 New Contributors @jackrein made their first contribution in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7719 @jl-codes made their first contribution in https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/7797 Full Changelog: https://github.com/cline/cline/compare/v3.39.2...v3.40.0
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