Gemini CLI 0.6.0

What's Changed

• Release Process vNext
• Extensions update command
• chore(a2a-server): if a2a task creation fails return error to user
• Add functionality to check for git extension updates, as well as support for installing a specific ref
• fix(cli): added directory name to folder trust dialog
• Add.geminiignore support to the glob tool.
• docs: Add e2e status badge to main README 🏅
• feat(ui): Semantic tokens refactor
• fix(#7039): broken IDE integration for multi-edit/multi-write flows
• fix(settings): use union merge for excludeTools
• fix: make bfsFileSearch more efficient
• Update README.md
• Fix: connect on docker devcontainer to vscode-ide
• fix: gitignore handling
• Add json output format
• fix(rendering): remove React.strictMode from gemini.tsx
• Fix compression issues
• Fix suggestion alignment
• feat: add cached string width function for performance optimization
• feat(ui): Add confirmation dialog for disabling loop detection for current session
• feat: add telemetry for output format usage
• feat(telemetry): Add content length to tool calls and log tool output truncation event
• Broaden PR Approval Process
• feat(release): automate patch creation and release process
• Update package-lock.json to reflect recently removed deps
• feat(core): Tool Confirmation Message Bus foundation (PR 1 of 3)
• feat(routing): Initialize model routing architecture
• feat(ui): make accept edits & yolo mode match shell mode styles
• fix(metrics) - Remove the error field from ApiResponseEvent
• fix(trust): Pass folderTrust config to a2a server
• Refactor IdeContextStore
• Fix MCP prompt slash commands not appearing.
• Move IdeClient.connect() to initializeApp().
• feat(core): Copy downloadRipGrep with license.
• feat(ide): Check for IDE diffing capabilities before opening diffs
• feat(shell): enable interactive commands with virtual terminal
• fix(core): Default skipNextSpeakerCheck to true when the setting is not manually set
• Update default text styles
• fix(core): Improve compression message clarity for small history cases
• fix(release): Add back old release.yml
• feat(core): Re-download rg binary if it is deleted.
• Fix license file.
• feat(core): Enable ripgrep by default.
• fix: Restore footer configuration settings (#8041)
• Typo fix in releases.md
• fix(ui): ensure [MCP] tag color matches active state
• feat(extension) - Add permission prompt for when user installs a local extension with mcpservers
• refactor(ide): Improve IDE diff communication protocol
• Make a stateful extensions list component, with update statuses
• refactor(release): simplify release workflow
• feat: simplify patch release workflow
• Metric(extension) - Add logging for uninstalling extension
• fix(ide): Correct IDE client temp dir and port matching
• fix(release): use preview tag for preview versions
• # feat(routing): Introduce useModelRouter feature flag
• Use shrinkwrap for package locking
• feat(input): add undo/redo shortcuts with Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+R
• docs(ide ext): add companion extension specification
• fix(core): Include the latest user request in countTokens for compression
• feat(core): Cap shell output truncation threshold to the remaining context window size
• JSON errors in non-interactive auth validation
• fix(core): stop streaming request on loop detection
• fix(ui): Correct footer measurement and prevent negative terminal height
• Fix dollar sign replacement bug in file editing
• feat: Add /chat share command
• Fix #8077: Settings command overwrites entire JSON file, leaking environment variables
• Remove conflicting shell Directory checks
• fix(stats): Use request model as fallback for stats logging
• refactor(core): Use BaseLlmClient for LLM-based loop detection
• chore(tests): Remove stale snapshot for deleted App.tsx
• feat: auto-approve pending tool calls when auto_edit/yolo is activated
• fix(e2e): resolve flaky list_directory test
• refactor(core): Migrate next speaker check to use BaseLlmClient
• feat(extensions) - Add local/remote for mcp servers
• fix: positional arguments for MCP prompts
• refactor(core): Move generateEmbedding to BaseLlmClient
• fix(tests): Cleans up setup test and fix behavior test
• docs(tools): update shell.md for interactive commands
• feat (cli): Add command search using Ctrl+r
• feat(security) - Use hybrid token storage when flag is enabled
• Remove unused method.
• update shell info
• feat(logging): Add clearcut logging for disabling loop detection
• chore(docs): Fix typo in shell.md
• Fix references to old name of npm-shrinkwrap.json.
• docs(ide): define diffing interface for companion extension spec
• feat(vscode-ide-companion): add auth token validation to IDE server
• Fix mixed input crash by adding proper error handling 8304
• Improve dark theme colors and readability for light themes
• feat(ide): add auth token support to IdeClient
• refactor: refactor slash command parsing to a util function.
• feat(routing): Introduce Classifier-based Model Routing Strategy
• Fix(triage): Update pr-triage.sh script
• refactor(core): Use BaseLlmClient for utility LLM calls in edit corrector
• feat(security) - Encrypted oauth flag
• feat: remove session summary feature
• cleanup(gha): Use Matrix runner w/ {self, ubuntu} for a low-risk workflow
• Fix Windows CI flaky test in SettingsDialog.test.tsx
• fix: Make trustedFolders file path configurable
• feat(actions): add swebench eval harness to github actions
• cleanup(extension) - Add tests for the install command
• chore(settings): enable setting migration
• docs: add headless mode guide
• refactor: Replace exec with spawn
• Remove unused code.
• feat: add direct Google Cloud telemetry exporters
• Update extension enablement logic
• feat(telemetry): Add telemetry and metrics for model routing
• fix(cli): Fix performance issues on relaunching CLI in inner node pro…
• fix(tests): reduce flakiness in simple mcp server test
• fix(ide): increase IDE open / close tool timeouts
• Simplify error messages when user runs into daily quotas.
• feat: Add -o as alias for --output-format
• OTEL: move TOC for docs
• refactor(core): Remove generateJson from GeminiClient
• Move headless.md to docs folder
• Show Citations by default for all users.
• fix(tests): look for json in thrown from json-output test
• fix(cli): add workspacePath to extension variables
• Fix to issue #736 resulting in GEMINI_CLI_AUTH_TYPE not getting populated most of the time in the start_session events
• Release Promotion Clean up
• Conditionally use consent flow
• chore: update erroneous model version added by external contrib
• fix(tests): improve test reliability and performance
• feat(extensions): add support for sso:// protocol
• Mk/release hotfix
• feat(settings): Add availableTerminalHeight prop and optimize settings dialog height management
• Serialize function calls that mutate state
• fix(cli): Auto restart CLI inner node process on trust change
• Fix automatic compression bug
• Mk correct versioning
• fix(patch): cherry-pick f3abfb8 to release/v0.6.0-preview.2 by @gemini-cli[bot] in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/8904
• Update.github directory from main branch
• fix(patch): cherry-pick 4ef46e4 to release/v0.6.0-preview.4 by @gemini-cli[bot] in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/9148
• Cherrypick extensions changes to v0.6.0
• fix(patch): cherry-pick c93eed6 to release/v0.6.0-preview.8 by @gemini-cli[bot] in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/9244
• fix(patch): cherry-pick 31c609d to release/v0.6.0-preview.9 by @gemini-cli[bot] in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/9251