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What’s New in AI Workbench?#

Overview#

Read this page to get information about:

  • New features across all components (Desktop App, CLI, Service, and Credential Manager).

  • Latest documentation updates and new example projects.

  • Recent improvements and enhancements.

  • Links to detailed release notes.

Check this page after each release to get info on what’s changed.

Release Version 2026.01.5#

Desktop App#

The following features and improvements were added to the Desktop App:

Cursor Integration

  • You can now add Cursor to a project in the same way that you can add VS Code.

  • Workbench will add specific rules files to the repository so Cursor knows how to manage the files and environment appropriately.

  • See more information in the Cursor instructions guide.

Manged Remote Updates

  • You no longer need to manually detect and update when a remote location is behind the stable release.

  • The Desktop App will now give you the option to have it update a remote location that has a pending update.

  • See more information in the remote updates guide.

Switch Container Runtime

  • You can now switch the container runtime between Docker and Podman directly within the Desktop App.

  • See more information in the switch container runtime guide.

Alert System

  • The Desktop App now has an “Alert System” that will alert you to major bugs, outages or issues that you should be aware of.

  • See more information in the alert system guide.

CLI#

The following features and improvements were added to the CLI:

  • Added Cursor as a native application. See the Cursor guide.

  • Added auto-update support for remote locations to fix version mismatch during the Add or Activate flow.

  • Added a new jsonl output type that streams JSON data using the JSON Lines standard.

  • Improved error messages for credential operations and multi-user remote sessions with error codes and troubleshooting links.

  • Added structured error handling when trying to update a running context.

Service#

The following features and improvements were added to the Service:

  • Added Cursor as a supported native application.

  • Added support for manifest lists when querying for base image metadata.

  • Updated Traefik container to v3.x.

  • Improved structured error handling and added username to version endpoint response.

Credential Manager#

  • Added structured error handling for authentication and network errors.

Documentation#