V0.51 changelog?

0.51.2 is out, and the feature that got the most love internally this time is Background Agents.

UPDATE: There’s also new view of MCPs.

Now we don’t have just one place in Cursor Settings where Background Agents are being setup. We’ve got two! So much love.

First, there’s the good old Beta tab.

And once you enable it, there’s even more love in a brand new tab.


When you click on the “Open Configuration” button, it also brings you to the new tab.

There’s also a lovely cloud icon I haven’t seen before.
It has a tooltip “Show Background Agents (Ctrl+E)” but it vanishes when I click my screenshot keys combo.
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Once we click on the cloud, we get this modal, which might be an old feature but I haven’t tried Background Agents yet. And seeing o3 MAX selected by default is enough for me to stay away from it. Maybe love is blind but money aren’t limitless.

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What is the value of not providing a detailed changelog for users who want to read it?

Your customers are developers, and this is an IDE not an iOS flashlight app… ヽ(◕_◕)ノ

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Hey, this is a beta version, it’s still in the completion stage. Once it becomes more stable, we’ll start rolling it out and add a detailed changelog.

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“Thanks for helping us check out the bugs. As a treat, for 0.51.2, there’s some new stuff around Background Agents, among other small changes like MCP settings tab.”

You’re welcome, and thank you too!

As a heads up: I get my Cursor updates from HomeBrew and there the latest version is 0.51.2 already.

See: homebrew-cask/Casks/c/cursor.rb at master · Homebrew/homebrew-cask · GitHub

This is because they identify the latest version using this API from Cursor: https://api2.cursor.sh/updates/api/update/darwin-arm64/cursor/0.0.0/

And it does return that 0.51.2 is the latest, with nothing indicating that it is a beta release.

Because of that, I got the beta version without being enrolled into any early access program and I can’t even tell what this version includes. That’s quite bad.

How could homebrew identify the latest stable version?

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Same here, updated to 0.51.2 but not enrolled in the beta program. Would be nice to see an official changelog! :pleading_face:

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v1.0 (aka v0.51) is out now!

Starting from version 0.51, window scrolling has started to drop frames and get stuck, which affects the experience. I have dropped back to 0.50 and hope to fix it in the next version.

My machine is mac m2

It was force pushed to me before your comment, even with Update Access turned to Default.

The only differences found are minor UI graphical changes, and that it now has 45-second hanging-seizures of Not Responding every time the CursorApp is given any kind of input. Took ~20 minutes to finally get the “About” window open because the CursorApp closes the dropdown menus when it hits a Not Responding seizure.

When will Cursor be giving users functioning version control? Seems unethical for it to be shown in the UI but not functioning, and to also not give refunds or added time for subscriptions when the team force pushes an update that makes the app nearly-unusable during paid-time. Doesn’t even seem logical: “In their haste to make the product that makes other people faster at making products, they made the product slow everyone down.”