Cline 3.47.0 adds Background Edits and free MiniMax 2.1

One of the most common pieces of feedback we hear: "I want to keep coding while Cline works." When Cline edits a file, it opens the diff view and takes your cursor along with it. That's fine when you're watching Cline work, but not ideal when you want to stay focused on your own code in another file.

Introducing Background Edits

Background Edits is an experimental feature that lets Cline edit files without opening the diff view or stealing your cursor. You stay in your file; Cline works in the background. The changes still get tracked and you still approve them – nothing happens without your say. But now you can actually keep working while Cline does its thing.

To enable it, head to Settings and turn on Background Edits under the experimental features section.

MiniMax M2.1 is free through Thursday

We've updated our free model from MiniMax M2 to M2.1. This version brings stronger multilingual coding support across Rust, Go, Java, C++, and TypeScript – not just Python-centric improvements. It's competitive with top closed source models on coding benchmarks. The free tier runs through Thursday, January 9th at 7pm PST. After that, standard usage pricing applies. Good time to give it a spin.

Other improvements

Added

• Azure-based identity authentication for OpenAI Compatible provider and Azure OpenAI
• supportsReasoning property for Baseten models

Fixed:

• Expired token usage in authenticated requests
• Binary files without extensions excluded from diffs
• File endings and trailing newlines preserved correctly
• Cerebras rate limiting- Auto Compact for Claude Code provider
• Workspace and Favorites history filters now independent
• Remote MCP server connection failures (404 response handling)
• Native tool calling for Deepseek 3.2 speciale
• Notification instead of opening sidebar on update
• Baseten model selector

Refactored

• Prompts for parallel tool usage in Claude and Gemini 3 models
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