Devin Desktop v1.2.1

Devin Desktop v1.2.1 was released on January 17, 2025.

Summary

Cascade Memories, Web Search and Docs — Cascade can now search the web! There are a couple of ways to use this:Automatically: Simply ask a query that needs a live internet search and Cascade will tri…

Release Context

This was the 2nd Devin Desktop release of 2025 tracked by Havoptic.
It shipped 8 days after Devin Desktop v1.1.3 (January 9, 2025).

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Release Notes

Cascade Memories, Web Search and Docs

Web and Docs Search

Cascade can now search the web! There are a couple of ways to use this:Automatically: Simply ask a query that needs a live internet search and Cascade will trigger web search automatically.URL Input: Paste in a URL and Cascade will use your URL as context (works well with blog posts, docs, articles, public GitHub files, etc.).@web: If you prefer to explicitly ask Cascade to search the web, use the @web command.@docs: Cascade can search through some popular documentation sites, including Windsurf's own help docs!
Automatically: Simply ask a query that needs a live internet search and Cascade will trigger web search automatically.
URL Input: Paste in a URL and Cascade will use your URL as context (works well with blog posts, docs, articles, public GitHub files, etc.).
@web: If you prefer to explicitly ask Cascade to search the web, use the @web command.
@docs: Cascade can search through some popular documentation sites, including Windsurf's own help docs!
Web tools like search and URL reading can be enabled and disabled via the Windsurf Settings panel in the bottom right of your status bar.
A web search is 1 flow action credit and the resulting URL page reads are additional credits.

Cascade Auto-Generated Memories

Cascade can now automatically generate memories to retain context between conversations
You can prompt Cascade to create a memory at any time if you want it to remember key context
Memories are visible in the Memories Panel, which is accessible when Cascade makes a memory or through the command palette
Memories can be deleted from the Memories Panel
Memories do not cost any flow action credits to generate

Improvements to Dev Container Support (Beta)

Dev Container support for Windows is now in beta
UI Tweaks to Dev Container workspace labels
Registers a command to reopen the current Dev Container workspace locally, enabling a switch from Dev Container to local workspace
"Attach to Running Container" Feature available for any Docker container
Added functionality for streaming Dev Container CLI output in real-time to show progress
Fixed buffer overflow issues
Dev Containers respect remoteUser configuration from devcontainer.json and container metadata

Fixes

Fixed a bug where intellisense's auto-selected option would be sometimes be chosen incorrectly
Fixed a bug where pressing Ctrl/Cmd + z after a diff hunk rejection would undo editor changes made immediately before the rejection
Fixed a bug where rejecting the output of "Add docstring" breadcrumbs button would leave an extra newline
Fixed a bug where in-editor diff decorations would not be correctly synced with Cascade after reverting to a past step
Fixed a bug where renaming, moving, or deleting a file with an active Cascade diff would cause the changes overview popover to freeze on subsequent steps
SSH Agent forwarding for Dev Containers on Mac and Linux
Fixed bugs in Cascade's find tool, hopefully reducing errors in Cascade tool usage
Performance improvements with Cascade and better visibility into errors
Overall improvements to how Cascade will respect Rules and Auto-Generated Memories
Fixed a rare bug where Reject All button in changes overview popover would revert all changes but not dispose of diff zones
Fixed several sources of crashes that were preventing some users from authenticating
Fixed a bug where using the at mention command in Cascade would crash the panel

Misc

Cascade can now run commands natively in the IDE's terminal
Cascade now proceeds without stopping when editing unsaved files in write mode
Performance upgrades to Supercomplete, with more expressive inline rendering capabilities
Added a per-file button in the Problems Tab tree view (the default) to send the file's problems to Cascade as an @-mention
Added an Explain And Fix Problem button in error hover popup, and a shortcut (⌘/Ctrl + shift + .), which opens a new…

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