AI Tool and Model Changelogs, Explained Simply
AI moves fast. We track official changelogs for command-line tools, editors, extensions, agents, apps and app builders — and every new AI model, whether it writes, draws, animates, sings or speaks. Each release is rewritten in plain English.
Command-line tools
Claude Code Changelog
Anthropic's official command-line coding agent — you talk to Claude in your terminal and it reads, writes, and runs code across your project.
Latest: v2.1.231 · 2026-08-13
OpenAI Codex CLI Changelog
OpenAI's official open-source coding agent for the terminal, written in Rust — it plans, edits, and runs code from natural-language prompts.
Latest: v0.147.0 · 2026-08-07
Gemini CLI Changelog
Google's official open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal for coding, research, and automation.
Latest: v0.55.1 · 2026-08-11
Grok CLI Changelog community
A popular open-source, community-built terminal coding agent for xAI's Grok models (not an official xAI release).
Latest: v1.1.7 · 2026-05-15
Grok Build Changelog
xAI's official terminal coding agent for the Grok models — plans projects, edits files, and runs commands from your terminal.
Latest: v1.0.3 · 2026-08-12
OpenCode Changelog
The most-starred open-source AI coding agent for the terminal — works with any model provider and ships new releases almost daily.
Latest: v1.18.18 · 2026-08-13
Goose Changelog
Block's open-source AI agent that automates coding tasks from your terminal or desktop, with any LLM and extensible MCP tools.
Latest: v1.46.0 · 2026-08-12
GitHub Copilot CLI Changelog
GitHub's official coding agent for the terminal — brings Copilot's agentic coding to the command line.
Latest: v1.0.79 · 2026-08-10
Qwen Code Changelog
Alibaba's open-source terminal coding agent tuned for the Qwen coder models.
Latest: v0.21.11 · 2026-08-13
Cline CLI Changelog
The terminal version of Cline — the popular open-source coding agent, running headless or interactive in your shell.
Latest: v3.0.54 · 2026-08-13
Mistral Vibe Changelog
Mistral AI's open-source coding agent for the terminal, built around the Devstral models.
Latest: v2.24.1 · 2026-08-11
Kimi CLI Changelog
Moonshot AI's terminal coding agent for the Kimi models.
Latest: v1.49.0 · 2026-07-16
Crush Changelog
Charm's glamorous open-source AI coding agent for the terminal — works with any model behind a polished TUI.
Latest: v0.89.0 · 2026-08-12
Devin CLI Changelog
Cognition's Devin coding agent in your terminal — included with Devin and Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) subscriptions.
Latest: v3000.4.16 · 2026-08-10
Factory Droid Changelog
Factory AI's software-engineering agent — runs in your terminal and IDE with strong enterprise traction.
Latest: v0.181.0 · 2026-07-27
Kiro CLI Changelog
AWS's agentic coding CLI (the successor to Amazon Q Developer), with spec-driven development built in.
Latest: v2.17.0 · 2026-08-11
Amp Changelog
The agentic coding tool spun out of Sourcegraph — terminal and editor, updated continuously.
Latest: August 11, 2026 · 2026-08-11
Editors and IDEs
Cursor Changelog
The most popular AI code editor — agent mode, background agents, and a rapid release pace.
Latest: August 3, 2026 · 2026-08-03
Zed Changelog
The fast, open-source, Rust-built code editor with first-class AI agents and collaborative editing.
Latest: v1.15.0 · 2026-08-12
Visual Studio Code Changelog
The world's most-used code editor — monthly releases now centered on Copilot agents and AI-assisted coding.
Latest: v1.133
Editor extensions
Cline Changelog
The hugely popular open-source AI coding agent for VS Code — plan/act modes, MCP tools, any model.
Latest: v4.1.9 · 2026-08-13
Kilo Code Changelog
The open-source AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains — the official successor to Roo Code.
Latest: v7.4.21 · 2026-08-11
Continue Changelog
The open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains — build your own custom agents and assistants.
Latest: v2.0.0 · 2026-06-19
Autonomous agents
OpenHands Changelog
The leading open-source autonomous coding agent (formerly OpenDevin) — writes code, fixes bugs, and ships PRs.
Latest: v1.13.0 · 2026-08-13
Jules Changelog
Google's asynchronous coding agent — hand it a task and it works your repo in the background.
Latest: March 9, 2026 · 2026-03-09
Desktop apps and platforms
Claude Desktop Changelog
Anthropic's Claude apps — desktop (with Cowork and Claude Code), web, and mobile. Release notes, explained simply.
Latest: August 6, 2026 · 2026-08-06
Codex App Changelog
OpenAI's Codex beyond the CLI — the desktop app, IDE extension, and cloud agents. Product updates, explained simply.
Latest: August 10, 2026 · 2026-08-10
Warp Changelog
The AI-powered terminal with built-in coding agents — weekly releases on Thursdays.
Latest: August 7, 2026 · 2026-08-07
AI app builders
Lovable Changelog
The vibe-coding app builder — describe what you want and Lovable builds and ships the full-stack app.
Latest: August 7, 2026 · 2026-08-07
v0 Changelog
Vercel's AI app builder — generates full-stack Next.js apps and UI from prompts.
Latest: July 31, 2026 · 2026-07-31
Bolt.new Changelog
StackBlitz's browser-based AI app builder — prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps.
Latest: August 1, 2026 · 2026-08-01
Base44 Changelog
The no-code AI app builder (acquired by Wix) — build working apps with built-in auth, data, and hosting.
Latest: August 11, 2026 · 2026-08-11
Replit Changelog
The browser IDE and app platform whose Replit Agent builds and deploys apps from a prompt.
Latest: August 7, 2026 · 2026-08-07
AI language models
Claude Models
Anthropic's Claude models — the Opus, Sonnet and Haiku family behind Claude Code and the Claude apps.
Latest: Claude Opus 5 · 2026-07-24
OpenAI Models
OpenAI's language models — the GPT and o-series models behind ChatGPT and the API.
Latest: GPT-5.6 Cyber · 2026-08-07
GLM Models
Z.ai's GLM models — the open-weight family widely used for coding agents.
Latest: GLM-5.2 · 2026-06-16
Cohere Models
Cohere's Command, Embed and Rerank models — built for business search and retrieval rather than chat.
Latest: North Mini Code · 2026-06-09
Mistral Models
Mistral's open-weight models — the European lab whose models you can download and run yourself.
Latest: Shieldstral · 2026-08-04
Grok Models
xAI's Grok models — the family behind Grok on X, plus their voice and video siblings.
Latest: Grok 4.6 · 2026-08-01
Gemini Models
Google's Gemini models — the Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite family behind Gemini and the Gemini CLI.
Latest: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · 2026-03-03
Qwen Models
Alibaba's Qwen models — one of the most-downloaded open-weight families, free to run yourself.
Latest: Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B · 2026-08-08
Kimi Models
Moonshot's Kimi models — open-weight agentic models with very long context windows.
Latest: Kimi-K3 · 2026-06-13
MiniMax Models
MiniMax's language models — the M-series text models behind their chat and coding products.
Latest: MiniMax M3 · 2026-06-01
AI image models
OpenAI Image Models
OpenAI's image models — GPT Image and the older DALL·E line.
Latest: GPT Image 2 · 2026-04-21
FLUX Models
FLUX, the image models from Black Forest Labs — the open-weight family behind much of today's AI image generation.
Latest: FLUX Virtual Try-On v2 · 2026-07-17
Midjourney Models
Midjourney's image models — the version releases behind the most recognisable AI art look.
Latest: Midjourney V8.2 · 2026-07-24
Stability AI Models
Stability AI's Stable Diffusion and Stable Audio models — open-weight image and audio generation.
Latest: Stable Audio 3.0 · 2026-05-20
Google Imagen Models
Google's image generation models — Imagen and the image-capable Gemini models.
Latest: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image · 2026-02-26
Recraft Models
Recraft's image models — built for designers, with real vector and brand-style output.
Latest: Recraft V4.1 · 2026-05-14
MiniMax Image Models
MiniMax's image generation models.
Latest: Image-01 · 2025-02-15
AI video models
Sora Models
Sora, OpenAI's video generation model — a written prompt in, a short film out.
Latest: Sora 2 Pro · 2025-10-06
Google Veo Models
Veo, Google's video generation models — prompts and images in, short films with sound out.
Latest: Veo 3.1 Lite · 2026-04-02
Runway Models
Runway's video models — Gen, Aleph and the world models behind their film-making tools.
Latest: Aleph 2.0 · 2026-05-21
Luma Models
Luma's Ray video models — the Dream Machine family for text and image to video.
Latest: Ray3.14 · 2026-01-26
Wan Models
Alibaba's Wan video models — open-weight video generation you can run on your own hardware.
Latest: Wan2.2-Animate-2-14B · 2026-07-14
MiniMax Hailuo Models
Hailuo, MiniMax's video generation models — text and images in, short cinematic clips out.
Latest: MiniMax H3 · 2026-07-31
AI music models
ElevenLabs Music Models
ElevenLabs' music models — full tracks with vocals from a written prompt.
Latest: Music v2 · 2026-06-15
Suno Models
Suno's music models — the versions behind the AI song generator, from v3 onward.
Latest: Suno v5.5 · 2026-03-26
MiniMax Music Models
MiniMax's music generation models — write lyrics or a prompt, get a finished track.
Latest: Music-3.0 · 2026-07-16
AI voice and audio models
OpenAI Audio Models
OpenAI's speech models — voice, transcription and the realtime audio models.
Latest: GPT Live Transcribe · 2026-07-28
ElevenLabs Models
ElevenLabs' voice models — text-to-speech, voice cloning and the Scribe transcription models.
Latest: Speech Engine · 2026-05-25
Deepgram Models
Deepgram's speech models — the Nova transcription and Aura voice families.
Latest: Flux · 2025-10-02
AssemblyAI Models
AssemblyAI's speech models — the Universal transcription family used for meeting and call transcripts.
Latest: Universal-3.5 Pro · 2026-08-01
MiniMax Speech Models
MiniMax's speech models — text-to-speech and voice cloning.
Latest: Speech-2.8 · 2026-01-23
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