Gemini CLI 0.2.0

What's Changed

• fix(docs): update authentication documentation to reflect available options
• Read and write files through Zed
• fix(tools): Handle special characters in file paths for glob and read_many_files
• feat(sessions): Introduce core ChatRecordingService for automatic conversation saving
• feat(settings): enhance settings management with generic setter and display hel…
• fix(settings): Disable showing statics in the dialog
• Changes to add tool_type as dimension
• fix: ensure consistent theme behavior between local and CI test runs
• feat: add file change tracking to session metrics
• fix: add privacy settings hook and tests
• feat(ui): implement message queuing during streaming responses
• feat: Show /ide subcommands based on connection status instead of ideMode boolean
• feat: Add IDE client to /bug & /about if IDE mode is enabled
• feat: restart MCP servers on /mcp refresh
• fix(#5605):.env file loaded after settings are parsed
• Log all session metadata
• fix(core): harden user account caching
• Remove checking for a condition just for logging
• Fix locale-specific date formatting issue in environmentContext.ts
• fix(ide): Fix bug where companion extension was not being installed on Windows correctly
• fix(paste) incorrect handling of \\\n in pastes
• feat(core): Cleanup after migrating tools.
• feat(ui): add hideFooter setting to hide footer from UI
• docs: Update mcpServers configuration documentation
• Remove unnecessary promiuse usage.
• feat(core): refactor shell execution to use node-pty
• Get ToolRegistry from config instead of passing it
• update(opentelemetry): Upgrade OTel dependencies
• feat(core): Add skipNextSpeakerCheck setting
• fix: allow re-auth with another google account
• fix(ide): Correctly identify IDE process when run from terminal
• Fix IDE Companion Connection in Proxy Environments
• feat: auto-approve compatible pending tools when allow always is selected
• Update shell service integration tests
• Merge #6677 into release branch for hot fix.
• chore(release): v0.2.0-preview.2
• Hotfix/retry stream from PR #6777 (retry stream)
• Zed preview patches
• cherrypick workflow fixes into preview release branch
• fix(keyboard): Implement Tab and Backspace handling for Kitty Protocol (#7006) (Cherry-pick)
• fix(ci): allow release branches to run (#7060)
• [cherrypic][hotfix] Do not call nextSpeakerCheck in case of API error
• Hotfix/metrics stream error
• Fix sandbox npm command