What changed in June 2026

17 changes across 8 tools in June 2026. The busiest were Copilot (4), Cline (3) and Claude Code (2); most changes were pricing and release updates.

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Claude CodemodelClaude Sonnet 5 becomes Claude Code's default model (2.1.197)Sonnet 5 arrived as the new default model in Claude Code, with a 1M-token context window and promotional pricing.

Monday, June 29, 2026

ClinepricingClinePass launches at $9.99 a month for open-weight modelsCline launched ClinePass, a flat monthly subscription for popular open-weight coding models with higher rate limits.CursorreleaseCursor for iOS enters public beta on all paid plansCursor released an iPhone app in public beta that launches cloud agents and remotely controls agents running on your computer.

Friday, June 26, 2026

ClinereleaseCline 4.0 ships an SDK rewrite, then rolls it back two days laterCline 4.0 moved the VS Code extension onto the shared Cline SDK, but 4.0.1 put stable users back on the old code after regressions.

Thursday, June 25, 2026

CodexreleaseCodex Remote is generally available; older phone pairings must re-pairControlling a Mac or Windows Codex host from the ChatGPT mobile app left preview, with a new pairing model.Gemini CLIsecurityGemini CLI 0.49.0 closes path-traversal holes in skill installsVersion 0.49.0 fixes three path-traversal flaws that let a malicious skill package write outside the skills folder.

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

CopilotlimitsCopilot Free and Student lose manual model choice: Auto onlyGitHub made automatic model selection the only option on the Free and Student plans.

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

ClinesecurityHigh-severity WebSocket hijack in Cline's dashboard (CVE-2026-59723)Cline published a CVSS 8.8 advisory: any website could take over a locally running Cline Hub dashboard.

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Gemini CLIlimitsGemini CLI stops serving free and Google AI Pro/Ultra users as Antigravity CLI takes overGoogle's cutover arrived: Gemini CLI now serves only Code Assist licence holders and paid API-key users.

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

CopilotpricingCopilot individual plan sign-ups start reopening, with cheaper mid-month upgradesGitHub began gradually reopening sign-ups for Student, Pro, Pro+ and Max and changed how upgrades and overage payments work.

Thursday, June 11, 2026

CodexlimitsCodex adds banked rate-limit resets for Plus and ProPlus and Pro users can now save rate-limit resets and use them later, starting with one free reset.

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

CursorreleaseBugbot gets 3x faster and about 22% cheaper per run, now on Composer 2.5Cursor sped up its Bugbot pull-request reviewer, cut its per-run cost and added a /review command for checking changes before you push.KiropricingKiro adds a $100-a-month Pro Max planA new Pro Max plan sits between Pro+ ($40) and Power ($200) with 5,000 credits a month.

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Claude CodemodelClaude Fable 5 launches, included in paid plans only until June 22Anthropic released Fable 5, with a short included window on paid plans before usage credits became required.

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

DevinreleaseWindsurf is renamed Devin DesktopCognition shipped an update that renames the Windsurf IDE to Devin Desktop and puts the Agent Command Center up front.

Monday, June 1, 2026

CopilotpricingCopilot Max launches at $100 a month, and Pro and Pro+ gain flex creditA $100 Copilot Max tier arrived with the switch to usage-based billing, and Pro and Pro+ gained extra flex credit on top of their base credit.CopilotpricingCopilot switches every plan to usage-based billing in GitHub AI CreditsFrom June 1, 2026, all Copilot plans bill by GitHub AI Credits used, replacing premium requests.