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Gemini CLI release notes

Gemini CLI has three major release channels: nightly, preview, and stable. For most users, we recommend the stable release.

On this page, you can find information regarding the current releases and announcements from each release.

For the full changelog, refer to Releases - google-gemini/gemini-cli on GitHub.

Current releases

Release channel Notes
Nightly Nightly release with the most recent changes.
Preview Experimental features ready for early feedback.
Stable Stable, recommended for general use.

Announcements: v0.25.0 - 2026-01-20

  • Skills and Agents Improvements: We've enhanced the activate_skill tool, added a new pr-creator skill (#16232 by @NTaylorMullen), enabled skills by default, improved the cli_help agent (#16100 by @scidomino), and added a new /agents refresh command (#16204 by @joshualitt).
  • UI/UX Refinements: You'll notice more transparent feedback for skills (#15954 by @NTaylorMullen), the ability to switch focus between the shell and input with Tab (#14332 by @jacob314), and dynamic terminal tab titles (#16378 by @NTaylorMullen).
  • Core Functionality & Performance: This release includes support for built-in agent skills (#16045 by @NTaylorMullen), refined Gemini 3 system instructions (#16139 by @NTaylorMullen), caching for ignore instances to improve performance (#16185 by @EricRahm), and enhanced retry mechanisms (#16489 by @sehoon38).
  • Bug Fixes and Stability: We've squashed numerous bugs across the CLI, core, and workflows, addressing issues with subagent delegation, unicode character crashes, and sticky header regressions.

Announcements: v0.24.0 - 2026-01-14

  • Agent Skills: We've introduced significant advancements in Agent Skills. This includes initial documentation and tutorials to help you get started, alongside enhanced support for remote agents, allowing for more distributed and powerful automation within Gemini CLI. (#15869 by @NTaylorMullen), (#16013 by @adamweidman)
  • Improved UI/UX: The user interface has received several updates, featuring visual indicators for hook execution, a more refined display for settings, and the ability to use the Tab key to effortlessly switch focus between the shell and input areas. (#15408 by @abhipatel12), (#14332 by @galz10)
  • Enhanced Security: Security has been a major focus, with default folder trust now set to untrusted for increased safety. The Policy Engine has been improved to allow specific modes in user and administrator policies, and granular allowlisting for shell commands has been implemented, providing finer control over tool execution. (#15943 by @galz10), (#15977 by @NTaylorMullen)
  • Core Functionality: This release includes a mandatory MessageBus injection, marking Phase 3 of a hard migration to a more robust internal communication system. We've also added support for built-in skills with the CLI itself, and enhanced model routing to effectively utilize subagents. (#15776 by @abhipatel12), (#16300 by @NTaylorMullen)
  • Terminal Features: Terminal interactions are more seamless with new features like OSC 52 paste support, along with fixes for Windows clipboard paste issues and general improvements to pasting in Windows terminals. (#15336 by @scidomino), (#15932 by @scidomino)
  • New Commands: To manage the new features, we've added several new commands: /agents refresh to update agent configurations, /skills reload to refresh skill definitions, and /skills install/uninstall for easier management of your Agent Skills. (#16204 by @NTaylorMullen), (#15865 by @NTaylorMullen), (#16377 by @NTaylorMullen)

Announcements: v0.23.0 - 2026-01-07

  • 🎉 Experimental Agent Skills Support in Preview: Gemini CLI now supports Agent Skills in our preview builds. This is an early preview where we’re looking for feedback!
  • Gemini CLI wrapped: Run npx gemini-wrapped to visualize your usage stats, top models, languages, and more!
  • Windows clipboard image support: Windows users can now paste images directly from their clipboard into the CLI using Alt+V. (pr by @sgeraldes)
  • Terminal background color detection: Automatically optimizes your terminal's background color to select compatible themes and provide accessibility warnings. (pr by @jacob314)
  • Session logout: Use the new /logout command to instantly clear credentials and reset your authentication state for seamless account switching. (pr by @CN-Scars)

Announcements: v0.22.0 - 2025-12-22

  • 🎉Free Tier + Gemini 3: Free tier users now all have access to Gemini 3 Pro & Flash. Enable in /settings by toggling "Preview Features" to true.
  • 🎉Gemini CLI + Colab: Gemini CLI is now pre-installed. Can be used headlessly in notebook cells or interactively in the built-in terminal (pic)
  • 🎉Gemini CLI Extensions:

    • Conductor: Planning++, Gemini works with you to build out a detailed plan, pull in extra details as needed, ultimately to give the LLM guardrails with artifacts. Measure twice, implement once!

      gemini extensions install https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/conductor

      Blog: https://developers.googleblog.com/conductor-introducing-context-driven-development-for-gemini-cli/

    • Endor Labs: Perform code analysis, vulnerability scanning, and dependency checks using natural language.

      gemini extensions install https://github.com/endorlabs/gemini-extension

Announcements: v0.21.0 - 2025-12-15

  • ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Gemini 3 Flash + Gemini CLI: Better, faster and cheaper than 2.5 Pro - and in some scenarios better than 3 Pro! For paid tiers + free tier users who were on the wait list enable Preview Features in /settings.
  • For more information: Gemini 3 Flash is now available in Gemini CLI.
  • 🎉 Gemini CLI Extensions:
    • Rill: Utilize natural language to analyze Rill data, enabling the exploration of metrics and trends without the need for manual queries. gemini extensions install https://github.com/rilldata/rill-gemini-extension
    • Browserbase: Interact with web pages, take screenshots, extract information, and perform automated actions with atomic precision. gemini extensions install https://github.com/browserbase/mcp-server-browserbase
  • Quota Visibility: The /stats command now displays quota information for all available models, including those not used in the current session. (@sehoon38)
  • Fuzzy Setting Search: Users can now quickly find settings using fuzzy search within the settings dialog. (@sehoon38)
  • MCP Resource Support: Users can now discover, view, and search through resources using the @ command. (@MrLesk)
  • Auto-execute Simple Slash Commands: Simple slash commands are now executed immediately on enter. (@jackwotherspoon)

Announcements: v0.20.0 - 2025-12-01

  • Multi-file Drag & Drop: Users can now drag and drop multiple files into the terminal, and the CLI will automatically prefix each valid path with @. (pr by @jackwotherspoon)
  • Persistent "Always Allow" Policies: Users can now save "Always Allow" decisions for tool executions, with granular control over specific shell commands and multi-cloud platform tools. (pr by @allenhutchison)

Announcements: v0.19.0 - 2025-11-24

  • 🎉 New extensions:
    • Eleven Labs: Create, play, manage your audio play tracks with the Eleven Labs Gemini CLI extension: gemini extensions install https://github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-mcp
  • Zed integration: Users can now leverage Gemini 3 within the Zed integration after enabling "Preview Features" in their CLI’s /settings. (pr by @benbrandt)
  • Interactive shell:
    • Click-to-Focus: When "Use Alternate Buffer" setting is enabled, users can click within the embedded shell output to focus it for input. (pr by @galz10)
    • Loading phrase: Clearly indicates when the interactive shell is awaiting user input. (vid, pr by @jackwotherspoon)

Announcements: v0.18.0 - 2025-11-17

  • 🎉 New extensions:
    • Google Workspace: Integrate Gemini CLI with your Workspace data. Write docs, build slides, chat with others or even get your calc on in sheets: gemini extensions install https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/workspace
    • Redis: Manage and search data in Redis with natural language: gemini extensions install https://github.com/redis/mcp-redis
    • Anomalo: Query your data warehouse table metadata and quality status through commands and natural language: gemini extensions install https://github.com/datagravity-ai/anomalo-gemini-extension
  • Experimental permission improvements: We are now experimenting with a new policy engine in Gemini CLI. This allows users and administrators to create fine-grained policy for tool calls. Currently behind a flag. See policy engine documentation for more information.
  • Gemini 3 support for paid: Gemini 3 support has been rolled out to all API key, Google AI Pro or Google AI Ultra (for individuals, not businesses) and Gemini Code Assist Enterprise users. Enable it via /settings and toggling on Preview Features.
  • Updated UI rollback: We’ve temporarily rolled back our updated UI to give it more time to bake. This means for a time you won’t have embedded scrolling or mouse support. You can re-enable with /settings -> Use Alternate Screen Buffer -> true.
  • Model in history: Users can now toggle in /settings to display model in their chat history. (gif, pr by @scidomino)
  • Multi-uninstall: Users can now uninstall multiple extensions with a single command. (pic, pr by @JayadityaGit)

Announcements: v0.16.0 - 2025-11-10

  • Gemini 3 + Gemini CLI: launch 🚀🚀🚀
  • Data Commons Gemini CLI Extension - A new Data Commons Gemini CLI extension that lets you query open-source statistical data from datacommons.org. To get started, you'll need a Data Commons API key and uv installed. These and other details to get you started with the extension can be found at https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/datacommons.

Announcements: v0.15.0 - 2025-11-03

  • 🎉 Seamless scrollable UI and mouse support: We’ve given Gemini CLI a major facelift to make your terminal experience smoother and much more polished. You now get a flicker-free display with sticky headers that keep important context visible and a stable input prompt that doesn't jump around. We even added mouse support so you can click right where you need to type! (gif, @jacob314).

  • 🎉 New partner extensions:

    • Arize: Seamlessly instrument AI applications with Arize AX and grant direct access to Arize support:

      gemini extensions install https://github.com/Arize-ai/arize-tracing-assistant

    • Chronosphere: Retrieve logs, metrics, traces, events, and specific entities:

      gemini extensions install https://github.com/chronosphereio/chronosphere-mcp

    • Transmit: Comprehensive context, validation, and automated fixes for creating production-ready authentication and identity workflows:

      gemini extensions install https://github.com/TransmitSecurity/transmit-security-journey-builder

  • Todo planning: Complex questions now get broken down into todo lists that the model can manage and check off. (gif, pr by @anj-s)

  • Disable GitHub extensions: Users can now prevent the installation and loading of extensions from GitHub. (pr by @kevinjwang1).

  • Extensions restart: Users can now explicitly restart extensions using the /extensions restart command. (pr by @jakemac53).

  • Better Angular support: Angular workflows should now be more seamless (pr by @MarkTechson).

  • Validate command: Users can now check that local extensions are formatted correctly. (pr by @kevinjwang1).

Announcements: v0.12.0 - 2025-10-27

Codebase investigator subagent in Gemini CLI.

  • 🎉 New partner extensions:

    • 🤗 Hugging Face extension: Access the Hugging Face hub. (gif)

      gemini extensions install https://github.com/huggingface/hf-mcp-server

    • Monday.com extension: Analyze your sprints, update your task boards, etc. (gif)

      gemini extensions install https://github.com/mondaycom/mcp

    • Data Commons extension: Query public datasets or ground responses on data from Data Commons (gif).

      gemini extensions install https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/datacommons

  • Model selection: Choose the Gemini model for your session with /model. (pic, pr by @abhipatel12).

  • Model routing: Gemini CLI will now intelligently pick the best model for the task. Simple queries will be sent to Flash while complex analytical or creative tasks will still use the power of Pro. This ensures your quota will last for a longer period of time. You can always opt-out of this via /model. (pr by @abhipatel12).

  • Codebase investigator subagent: We now have a new built-in subagent that will explore your workspace and resolve relevant information to improve overall performance. (pr by @abhipatel12, pr by @silviojr).

    • Enable, disable, or limit turns in /settings, plus advanced configs in settings.json (pic, pr by @silviojr).

  • Explore extensions with /extension: Users can now open the extensions page in their default browser directly from the CLI using the /extension explore command. (pr by @JayadityaGit).

  • Configurable compression: Users can modify the compression threshold in /settings. The default has been made more proactive (pr by @scidomino).

  • API key authentication: Users can now securely enter and store their Gemini API key via a new dialog, eliminating the need for environment variables and repeated entry. (pr by @galz10).

  • Sequential approval: Users can now approve multiple tool calls sequentially during execution. (pr by @joshualitt).

Announcements: v0.11.0 - 2025-10-20

Gemini CLI and Jules

  • 🎉 Gemini CLI Jules Extension: Use Gemini CLI to orchestrate Jules. Spawn remote workers, delegate tedious tasks, or check in on running jobs!
  • Stream JSON output: Stream real-time JSONL events with --output-format stream-json to monitor AI agent progress when run headlessly. (gif, pr by @anj-s)
  • Markdown toggle: Users can now switch between rendered and raw markdown display using alt+m or ctrl+m. (gif, pr by @srivatsj)
  • Queued message editing: Users can now quickly edit queued messages by pressing the up arrow key when the input is empty. (gif, pr by @akhil29)
  • JSON web fetch: Non-HTML content like JSON APIs or raw source code are now properly shown to the model (previously only supported HTML) (gif, pr by @abhipatel12)
  • Non-interactive MCP commands: Users can now run MCP slash commands in non-interactive mode gemini "/some-mcp-prompt". (pr by @capachino)
  • Removal of deprecated flags: We’ve finally removed a number of deprecated flags to cleanup Gemini CLI’s invocation profile:

Announcements: v0.10.0 - 2025-10-13

  • Polish: The team has been heads down bug fixing and investing heavily into polishing existing flows, tools, and interactions.
  • Interactive Shell Tool calling: Gemini CLI can now also execute interactive tools if needed (pr by @galz10).
  • Alt+Key support: Enables broader support for Alt+Key keyboard shortcuts across different terminals. (pr by @srivatsj).
  • Telemetry Diff stats: Track line changes made by the model and user during file operations via OTEL. (pr by @jerop).

Announcements: v0.9.0 - 2025-10-06

  • 🎉 Interactive Shell: Run interactive commands like vim, rebase -i, or even gemini 😎 directly in Gemini CLI:
  • Install pre-release extensions: Install the latest --pre-release versions of extensions. Used for when an extension’s release hasn’t been marked as "latest". (pr by @jakemac53)
  • Simplified extension creation: Create a new, empty extension. Templates are no longer required. (pr by @chrstnb)
  • OpenTelemetry GenAI metrics: Aligns telemetry with industry-standard semantic conventions for improved interoperability. (spec, pr by @jerop)
  • List memory files: Quickly find the location of your long-term memory files with /memory list. (pr by @sgnagnarella)

Announcements: v0.8.0 - 2025-09-29

  • 🎉 Announcing Gemini CLI Extensions 🎉
    • Completely customize your Gemini CLI experience to fit your workflow.
    • Build and share your own Gemini CLI extensions with the world.
    • Launching with a growing catalog of community, partner, and Google-built extensions.
    • Easy install:
      • gemini extensions install <github url|folder path>
    • Easy management:
      • gemini extensions install|uninstall|link
      • gemini extensions enable|disable
      • gemini extensions list|update|new
    • Or use commands while running with /extensions list|update.
    • Everything you need to know: Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions.
  • 🎉 Our New Home Page & Better Documentation 🎉
  • Non-Interactive Allowed Tools: --allowed-tools will now also work in non-interactive mode. (pr by @mistergarrison)
  • Terminal Title Status: See the CLI's real-time status and thoughts directly in the terminal window's title by setting showStatusInTitle: true. (pr by @Fridayxiao)
  • Small features, polish, reliability & bug fixes: A large amount of changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!

Announcements: v0.7.0 - 2025-09-22

  • 🎉Build your own Gemini CLI IDE plugin: We've published a spec for creating IDE plugins to enable rich context-aware experiences and native in-editor diffing in your IDE of choice. (pr by @skeshive)
  • 🎉 Gemini CLI extensions
    • Flutter: An early version to help you create, build, test, and run Flutter apps with Gemini CLI (extension)
    • nanobanana: Integrate nanobanana into Gemini CLI (extension)
  • Telemetry config via environment: Manage telemetry settings using environment variables for a more flexible setup. (docs, pr by @jerop)
  • ​​Experimental todos: Track and display progress on complex tasks with a managed checklist. Off by default but can be enabled via "useWriteTodos": true (pr by @anj-s)
  • Share chat support for tools: Using /chat share will now also render function calls and responses in the final markdown file. (pr by @rramkumar1)
  • Citations: Now enabled for all users (pr by @scidomino)
  • Custom commands in Headless Mode: Run custom slash commands directly from the command line in non-interactive mode: gemini "/joke Chuck Norris" (pr by @capachino)
  • Small features, polish, reliability & bug fixes: A large amount of changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!

Announcements: v0.6.0 - 2025-09-15

  • 🎉 Higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers: We’re psyched to finally announce that Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers now get access to significantly higher 2.5 quota limits for Gemini CLI!
  • 🎉Gemini CLI Databases and BigQuery Extensions: Connect Gemini CLI to all of your cloud data with Gemini CLI.
  • JSON output mode: Have Gemini CLI output JSON with --output-format json when invoked headlessly for easy parsing and post-processing. Includes response, stats and errors. (pr by @jerop)
  • Keybinding triggered approvals: When you use shortcuts (shift+y or shift+tab) to activate YOLO/auto-edit modes any pending confirmation dialogs will now approve. (pr by @bulkypanda)
  • Chat sharing: Convert the current conversation to a Markdown or JSON file with /chat share <file.md|file.json> (pr by @rramkumar1)
  • Prompt search: Search your prompt history using ctrl+r. (pr by @Aisha630)
  • Input undo/redo: Recover accidentally deleted text in the input prompt using ctrl+z (undo) and ctrl+shift+z (redo). (pr by @masiafrest)
  • Loop detection confirmation: When loops are detected you are now presented with a dialog to disable detection for the current session. (pr by @SandyTao520)
  • Direct to Google Cloud Telemetry: Directly send telemetry to Google Cloud for a simpler and more streamlined setup. (pr by @jerop)
  • Visual Mode Indicator Revamp: ‘shell’, 'accept edits' and 'yolo' modes now have colors to match their impact / usage. Input box now also updates. (shell, accept-edits, yolo, pr by @miguelsolorio)
  • Small features, polish, reliability & bug fixes: A large amount of changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!

Announcements: v0.5.0 - 2025-09-08

  • 🎉FastMCP + Gemini CLI🎉: Quickly install and manage your Gemini CLI MCP servers with FastMCP (video, pr by @jackwotherspoon)
  • Positional Prompt for Non-Interactive: Seamlessly invoke Gemini CLI headlessly via gemini "Hello". Synonymous with passing -p. (gif, pr by @allenhutchison)
  • Experimental Tool output truncation: Enable truncating shell tool outputs and saving full output to a file by setting "enableToolOutputTruncation": true (pr by @SandyTao520)
  • Edit Tool improvements: Gemini CLI’s ability to edit files should now be far more capable. (pr by @silviojr)
  • Custom witty messages: The feature you’ve all been waiting for… Personalized witty loading messages via "ui": { "customWittyPhrases": ["YOLO"]} in settings.json. (pr by @JayadityaGit)
  • Nested .gitignore File Handling: Nested .gitignore files are now respected. (pr by @gsquared94)
  • Enforced authentication: System administrators can now mandate a specific authentication method via "enforcedAuthType": "oauth-personal|gemini-api-key|…"in settings.json. (pr by @chrstnb)
  • A2A development-tool extension: An RFC for an Agent2Agent (A2A) powered extension for developer tool use cases. (feedback, pr by @skeshive)
  • **Hands on Codelab: **https://codelabs.developers.google.com/gemini-cli-hands-on
  • Small features, polish, reliability & bug fixes: A large amount of changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!

Announcements: v0.4.0 - 2025-09-01

  • 🎉Gemini CLI CloudRun and Security Integrations🎉: Automate app deployment and security analysis with CloudRun and Security extension integrations. Once installed deploy your app to the cloud with /deploy and find and fix security vulnerabilities with /security:analyze.
  • Experimental
    • Edit Tool: Give our new edit tool a try by setting "useSmartEdit": true in settings.json! (feedback, pr by @silviojr)
    • Model talking to itself fix: We’ve removed a model workaround that would encourage Gemini CLI to continue conversations on your behalf. This may be disruptive and can be disabled via "skipNextSpeakerCheck": false in your settings.json (feedback, pr by @SandyTao520)
    • Prompt completion: Get real-time AI suggestions to complete your prompts as you type. Enable it with "general": { "enablePromptCompletion": true } and share your feedback! (gif, pr by @3ks)
  • Footer visibility configuration: Customize the CLI's footer look and feel in settings.json (pr by @miguelsolorio)
    • hideCWD: hide current working directory.
    • hideSandboxStatus: hide sandbox status.
    • hideModelInfo: hide current model information.
    • hideContextSummary: hide request context summary.
  • Citations: For enterprise Code Assist licenses users will now see citations in their responses by default. Enable this yourself with "showCitations": true (pr by @scidomino)
  • Pro Quota Dialog: Handle daily Pro model usage limits with an interactive dialog that lets you immediately switch auth or fallback. (pr by @JayadityaGit)
  • Custom commands @: Embed local file or directory content directly into your custom command prompts using @{path} syntax (gif, pr by @abhipatel12)
  • 2.5 Flash Lite support: You can now use the gemini-2.5-flash-lite model for Gemini CLI via gemini -m …. (gif, pr by @psinha40898)
  • CLI streamlining: We have deprecated a number of command line arguments in favor of settings.json alternatives. We will remove these arguments in a future release. See the PR for the full list of deprecations. (pr by @allenhutchison)
  • JSON session summary: Track and save detailed CLI session statistics to a JSON file for performance analysis with --session-summary <path> (pr by @leehagoodjames)
  • Robust keyboard handling: More reliable and consistent behavior for arrow keys, special keys (Home, End, etc.), and modifier combinations across various terminals. (pr by @deepankarsharma)
  • MCP loading indicator: Provides visual feedback during CLI initialization when connecting to multiple servers. (pr by @swissspidy)
  • Small features, polish, reliability & bug fixes: A large amount of changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!
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