Devin Desktop · Continuity · Aug 10–16, 2026
3 releases · updated
Devin Desktop: Faster sidebar
Three releases of Devin Desktop shipped this week, bringing improvements to the sidebar, session handling, and automation. The faster sidebar helps users with thousands of cached sessions by reducing lag. These changes benefit users who work with large numbers of sessions and automate tasks.
v3.7.25 · August 13, 2026
Also shipped to the Next channel as v3.7.1025.
This release improves the sidebar by only processing sessions that are actually displayed, reducing lag. Sessions also appear immediately on startup, and automation and scheduled sessions are filtered on the server when possible. Additionally, authentication issues with certain MCP servers have been fixed, and shared conversations are now scoped to the user’s account.
Official release notes
Devin Desktop
- Faster sidebar for users with thousands of cached sessions: filtering, space grouping, and sorting now only process the sessions actually fetched for display, eliminating multi-second lag after “Reload Window” or while scrolling.
- Sessions appear immediately on startup: the agent sidebar and the Sessions board and list views are pre-populated from a per-session cache while the first session list request is still in flight. Mode and model selections, per-turn stats footers, turn and Fast Context feedback indicators, and pending in-editor diff review state now refresh from the server instead of being restored across restarts.
- Automation and scheduled sessions are filtered on the server when the connector supports it, and fall back to the local filter otherwise.
Devin Local
- Fixed authentication issues with certain MCP servers, such as self-hosted GitLab servers and older Atlassian MCP instances
/shareno longer asks which organization a conversation belongs to: shared conversations are scoped to your account, so the link works for everyone in the account, and refusals now explain the server’s actual reason (for example, that conversation sharing is disabled)
v3.7.1016 (Next) · August 10, 2026
This release fixes a bug with accidentally triggering editor keybindings from the agent chat and renames the ‘Plugins’ section to ‘Extensions’. It also hides Cascade-specific configuration options when Cascade is disabled and enables sharing directly from the actions menu below a completed Devin Local turn.
Official release notes
Devin Desktop
- Fixed a bug with accidentally triggering editor keybindings from the agent chat.
- The old “Plugins” section for IDE extension marketplaces has been renamed to “Extensions”.
- Hide Cascade-specific configuration and customization options when Cascade is disabled for your team.
Devin Local
- Enabled share directly from the actions menu below a completed Devin Local turn.
- Plugins installed from Customizations are added to your personal plugins by default, so they are available in Devin Cloud and on your other devices; choose Install locally for a device-only install.
v3.7.16 · August 10, 2026
This release includes several fixes and improvements, including a confirmation prompt for ‘Restart to Update’ when local agents are still working, and visual polish for the Agent Command Center. It also fixes bugs with accidentally triggering editor keybindings and improves the reliability of reverting mid-turn in Devin Local conversations.
Official release notes
Devin Desktop
- “Restart to Update” now asks for confirmation when local agents are still working and says how many will be stopped; cloud sessions keep running.
- Settings and Keyboard Shortcuts open as regular editor tabs by default; set
"workbench.editor.useModal": "all"to keep the modal overlay. - Fixed a bug with accidentally triggering editor keybindings from the agent chat.
- The old “Plugins” section for IDE extension marketplaces has been renamed to “Extensions”.
- Hide Cascade-specific configuration and customization options when Cascade is disabled for your team.
- Visual polish for the Agent Command Center: left-aligned titlebar, unsaved-changes indicator on file tabs, no more Cmd+P open/close flicker, aligned PR icons in Quick Open, full-width sidebar title renaming, and dragged session tabs that pick up their session name.
- Starting an agent in a new worktree that fails now surfaces the git error instead of quietly running in your workspace.
- Terminal: Create New Terminal in Editor Area now works inside worktrees.
- Codemaps and MCP configuration files now open from the remote machine when connected over WSL, SSH, or a dev container.
- Teams plan members no longer see quota warning banners they cannot act on.
Devin Local
- Devin Local conversations can be shared: Share Conversation uploads a sanitized transcript (system prompts and tool definitions dropped, secrets redacted, paths normalized) and copies a team-visible link. Share directly from the actions menu below a completed turn.
- Reverting is reliable mid-turn: revert buttons appear as soon as a prompt is sent and reverting while the agent is working cancels the turn first.
- The Customizations panel has search across every section (skills, subagents, rules, hooks, plugins, MCP servers), a new Subagents section, a refresh action for plugins, and an info indicator explaining why an enterprise-required plugin can’t be removed.
- Plugins installed from Customizations are added to your personal plugins by default, so they are available in Devin Cloud and on your other devices; choose Install locally for a device-only install.
- Permission rules from different levels (enterprise, mode, user, project, subagent) now compose predictably — an explicit
deny:always wins, “always allow” options only appear when the grant would actually take effect, and denials say which layer denied them. - Fixed rendering of commands whose output contains non-UTF-8 bytes.
- Ensured
sudopassword prompts can’t hang a command. - Separate each MCP server’s logs into its own
MCP: <server>output channel. - Large-file reads through ACP are bounded and paginated instead of repeatedly rereading overflow files. Late terminal flushes now preserve complete output and cannot reopen completed command cards.
Devin Cloud
- Session size chips use the same enterprise ACU thresholds as the web app, and auto-continuation billing notices appear inline in the transcript.
- Queued messages can be edited: click the edit button or press ⬆ in an empty input to pull the last queued message back.
- The
+X −Ydiff summary on a collapsed agent group is now clickable and opens a multi-diff editor with just that group’s files. - “Duplicate session” and “send as fork” open the fork in a new tab, keeping the original conversation open.
- “Grant access” on a network access request is disabled with an explanation when an admin owns the session’s network policy.
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