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Cline Desktop exits beta, LangChain wires up GPT-6 Astra
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Cline is pushing its desktop client out of beta with a cloud session REST client now landing alongside the launch notice, while LangChain quietly makes ChatOpenAI work with GPT-6 Astra's request constraints.
chore(cli): drop "(beta)" from the Cline Desktop notice cline/cline
The CLI launch notice for Cline Desktop drops the "(beta)" qualifier, the last step in a rollout that also added a desktop page to the docs. Plan for desktop as a supported surface, not a preview.
fix(desktop): keep retrying the backend connection when the sidecar is slow to start (#14119) cline/cline
The Tauri webview used to ask the shell for the sidecar endpoint exactly once; when hub startup lock plus daemon boot exceeded the shell's 15s poll on a slow Windows machine, the UI parked on "Desktop backend unavailable". It now keeps retrying.
feat(desktop): add cloud session REST client (#13855) cline/cline
Adds authenticated remote Hub connections in the SDK, scopes approval recovery to attached clients, and gates the cloud rollout behind a required boolean flag. Desktop sessions can now reach cloud backends, but only where that flag is set.
fix(openai): support GPT-6 request constraints langchain-ai/langchain
GPT-6 Astra users can count message tokens again, and ChatOpenAI switches to the Responses API automatically when tools are bound because OpenAI requires it for this model. Parameter support stays delegated to OpenAI rather than a model-specific catalog.
feat: surface automation disablement reason in the UI OpenHands/OpenHands
The automation service already recorded a human-readable disabled_reason, structured disabled_detail, and a disabled_at timestamp on every disable; the UI now surfaces them instead of leaving the automation silently off.
test: cover core utilities and state stores OpenHands/OpenHands
Across the long tail: OpenHands added four test-only layers (core utilities and state stores, service routing and repository queries, conversation observability, automation detail reporting) against a baseline of 80.04% line and 69.89% branch coverage, and llama_index fixed its docs build.
