Codeium has announced the release of Windsurf Wave 4 which introduces a selection of new features. The company claims that this update marks a turning point from playing catchup to leading the industry, thanks to some new features in this update that are unique to an AI-native IDE.

One of the biggest changes in this update is tweaks made to Claude 3.7. Codeium said that the new Claude 3.7 Sonnet LLM, when chosen, was a bit too trigger happy with tool calling, leading to much faster-than-anticipated usage of flow action credits. It has improved this so that this model doesn’t eat all your credits.

Other improvements in this update are as follows:

Previews: Iterate on your apps rapidly by easily sending elements and console errors back to Cascade as context

Tab-to-import: Another addition to our passive predictive experience

Linter integration: Cascade checks its outputs against linters

Suggested actions: After responding, Cascade suggests what your next action should be

MCP discoverability: Simpler methods of identifying and pulling in helpful MCP servers

Drag & drop files: Attach editor tabs or files from your file explorer to Cascade

Model options admin control: For enterprises, specify which models your org can use

Referrals: Give the gift of Windsurf (and get rewards in return!)

The Windsurf IDE is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you’ve not tried it you can get it from the website’s download page. Meanwhile, if you already have it installed, press the profile icon drop down and then click Check for Updates.