Gemini CLI Changelog
Wondering what’s new in Gemini CLI? This document provides key highlights and notable changes to Gemini CLI.
v0.7.0 - Gemini CLI weekly update - 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!
v0.6.0 - Gemini CLI weekly update - 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.
- Announcement and how to get started with each of the below extensions: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/gemini-cli-extensions-for-google-data-cloud?e=48754805
- AlloyDB: Interact, manage and observe AlloyDB for PostgreSQL databases (manage, observe)
- BigQuery: Connect and query your BigQuery datasets or utilize a sub-agent for contextual insights (query, sub-agent)
- Cloud SQL: Interact, manage and observe Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL (manage, observe), Cloud SQL for MySQL (manage, observe) and Cloud SQL for SQL Server (manage, observe) databases.
- Dataplex: Discover, manage, and govern data and AI artifacts (extension)
- Firestore: Interact with Firestore databases, collections and documents (extension)
- Looker: Query data, run Looks and create dashboards (extension)
- MySQL: Interact with MySQL databases (extension)
- Postgres: Interact with PostgreSQL databases (extension)
- Spanner: Interact with Spanner databases (extension)
- SQL Server: Interact with SQL Server databases (extension)
- MCP Toolbox: Configure and load custom tools for more than 30+ data sources (extension)
- 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)
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| 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!
v0.5.0 - Gemini CLI weekly update - 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!
v0.4.0 - Gemini CLI weekly update - 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 Ddalog: 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!
