Devin Desktop · Continuity · Sep 7–13, 2026
2 releases · updated
Devin Desktop: Remote agent hosts
Two releases of Devin Desktop shipped this week, with the main change being the addition of remote agent hosts. This helps users connect to agents over SSH from the location selector. The updates also include various fixes and improvements to the agent sidebar, file explorer, and session management.
v3.10.23 · September 10, 2026
Also shipped to the Next channel as v3.10.1023.
This release introduces remote agent hosts, which allow users to connect to agents over SSH from the location selector. It also includes faster startup, bounded memory for background transcripts, and cheaper loading spinners. Additionally, local sessions can now be deleted from the agent sidebar, and the file explorer updates to match the working directory of the active session. Other notable changes include the removal of the Enable ACP toggle and improvements to MCP authorization and agent activation failures. The release also removes some legacy Cascade entry points and includes fixes for various issues.
Official release notes
Devin Desktop
- Remote agent hosts: connect to agents over SSH from the location selector, with saved hosts, status dots, and a server icon in the sidebar. SSH sessions recover the exact transcript after a reconnect.
- Local sessions can now be deleted from the agent sidebar.
- Faster startup, bounded memory for background transcripts and streamed file writes, and cheaper loading spinners.
- When switching between sessions in the Agent Command Center, the file explorer now updates to match the working directory of the active session.
- ACP is always enabled — the Enable ACP toggle is gone.
- MCP authorization opens the provider directly, and Docker-based MCP servers from the registry launch correctly.
- Agent activation failures report the agent’s last stderr line and open that agent’s output channel.
- Some legacy Cascade entry points are removed: new-agent option, annotations, conversation mentions, settings group, automatic Lifeguard checks, Vibe & Replace, Deploy, and workflow commands.
- Files Devin edits in Desktop count toward lines-of-code analytics.
Devin Cloud
- Network access requests now match the web app: an “Allowlist N domains” card that names the policy blocking the destinations and lets permitted users update the governing security profile or automation.
- Archiving a cloud session with open pull requests offers to close them, and archives its child sessions.
- Improved cloud session formatting with an image preview carousel, hook run visibility, and rich queued messages.
- A message sent during a Devin Cloud outage is held and delivered when the connection returns.
v3.9.19 · September 8, 2026
Also shipped to the Next channel as v3.9.1018.
This release removes Cascade and replaces it with Devin Local as the only agent available in Devin Desktop. It also updates the agent location picker to show Local, Worktree, and Cloud as top-level options, and includes changes to the agent sidebar and inbox list view. Other notable changes include improvements to trigger menus, find-in-page functionality, and PR cards. The release also fixes several issues, including attaching to dev containers and Remote-WSL activation on a fresh install.
Official release notes
Devin Desktop
[!NOTE]
Cascade has been removed. Devin Local is now the only agent available in Devin Desktop. Use the Continue in Devin Local prompt to migrate existing conversations to the new agent.
- The agent location picker now shows Local, Worktree, and Cloud as top-level options, with existing worktrees in a searchable nested submenu.
- Agent sidebar: sessions updated in the last 30 days are shown by default.
- The agent inbox list view now has per-row checkboxes for batch archive/unarchive, and the title-bar back/forward arrows navigate between the inbox and opened sessions.
- Trigger menus (
/,@,!) no longer open when followed by whitespace, and stay closed after you click into the conversation. - Cmd/Ctrl+F opens find-in-page in Devin Review and embedded Devin web surfaces. Devin Review tabs show the PR title, open GitHub links at their diff anchor, and the sessions sidebar swaps to a PR files/review sidebar (or the wiki page tree) while a fullscreen review or wiki is open.
- PR cards gained Open Devin Review, Open in Desktop tab, Close PR, and Git settings actions, and Checkout branch now finds local clones (including worktrees) and lets you pick one when several match.
- Fixed attaching to dev containers whose remote user is a
uid:gid, Remote-WSL activation on a fresh install, and MCP registry fetches behind corporate proxies. - Clipboard images can be pasted into the New Session page.
- Problems panel actions now send problems to Devin Local when Cascade is disabled.
- Config changes reach sessions in the order they are selected, so a rapid sequence no longer lets an older update overwrite a newer one.
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