Devin Desktop · Continuity · Mar 9–15, 2026
4 releases · updated
Devin Desktop improves Jupyter Notebook performance
This week, Devin Desktop shipped four releases, primarily focusing on improving performance and fixing bugs. The main change is improved Jupyter Notebook performance when running on WSL, which helps users working with Jupyter Notebooks in this environment. These releases also bring various fixes and improvements to Cascade, MCP, and overall stability and performance.
v1.9577.27 · March 12, 2026
Also shipped to the Next channel as v1.9577.1027.
This release includes a fix for Apple M5. It is primarily a bug fix release.
Official release notes
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Fix for Apple M5
v1.9577.1024 (Next) · March 9, 2026
This release improves Jupyter Notebook performance when running on WSL and fixes dangling Diff Zones related to Jupyter Notebooks.
Official release notes
Cascade
- Fix dangling Diff Zones related to Jupyter Notebooks
- Improve Jupyter Notebook performance when running on WSL
v1.9577.1020 (Next) · March 9, 2026
This release brings several improvements, including better Cascade UI rendering performance, improved notifications for model price changes, and support for loading SKILL.md files from the .windsurf/skills/ directory. It also adds support for system-level Skill definitions via MDM-managed configs for Enterprise and improves context management for MCP servers.
Official release notes
Cascade
- Improve Cascade UI rendering performance
- Fix Cascade agent crashes under certain conditions
- Improve notifications for model price changes
- Add support for loading SKILL.md files from the
.windsurf/skills/directory - Fix
AGENTS.mdbeing ignored by Cascade in specific cases
MCP
- Add support for system-level Skill definitions via MDM-managed configs for Enterprise
- Improve context management for MCP servers
Stability & Performance
- Improve autocomplete error handling and performance
- Improve SSH & Remote performance
v1.9577.24 · March 9, 2026
This release includes improvements to Jupyter Notebook performance on WSL, Cascade UI rendering performance, and notifications for model price changes. It also adds support for system-level Skill definitions via MDM-managed configs for Enterprise and improves context management for MCP servers.
Official release notes
Cascade
- Fix dangling Diff Zones related to Jupyter Notebooks
- Improve Jupyter Notebook performance when running on WSL
- Improve Cascade UI rendering performance
- Fix Cascade agent panel crashes under certain conditions
- Improve notifications for model price changes
- Add support for loading SKILL.md files from the
.windsurf/skills/directory - Fix
AGENTS.mdbeing ignored by Cascade in specific cases
MCP
- Add support for system-level Skill definitions via MDM-managed configs for Enterprise
- Improve context management for MCP servers
Stability & Performance
- Improve autocomplete error handling and performance
- Improve SSH & Remote performance
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