Gemini CLI 0.9.0

What's Changed

• chore(release): bump version to 0.9.0-nightly.20251001.163dba7e
• Codebase Investigator: Separate initial query from system prompt and apply templateStrings in query and initialMessages
• feat(telemetry): add OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic convention metrics
• feat: Add enableSubagents configuration and wire up subagent registration
• Cleanup useSelectionList and fix infinite loop in debug mode issues.
• Revert reducing margin on narrow screens
• Switch to a reducer for tracking update state fixing flicker issues due to continuous renders
• Smart Edit Strategy Logging
• Fix so paste timeout protection is much less invasive.
• fix(ui): increase padding of settings dialog
• Docs IA update and Get Started section.
• fix(core): add telemetry support for smart edit correction events
• support giving a github repo URL with a trailing slash
• feat(ci): Add npx run testing to Release Verification Testing
• fix(integration): Added shell specification for winpty
• fix(ci) update wording of promote action output to be more clear
• fix(core): use constant for tool_output_truncated event name
• fix: Stream parsing for Windows Zed integration
• feat(ide extension): introduce debug logging
• Fix(infra) - Give merge queue skipper read-all access
• fix(vscode): suppress update and install messages in managed IDEs
• refactor(agents): implement submit_final_output tool for agent completion
• fix(infra) - Add pr number to the release branch name for final step of release
• Docs: Add changelog section
• Modify GCLI system prompt to conditionally use the CodebaseInvestigator
• fix: prevent tools discovery error for prompt-only MCP servers
• Update patch PRs with additional content
• fix(auto-update): suppress npx nag for transient installs
• Update GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT in README for disambiguation
• Adding list sub command to memoryCommand to list the path of GEMINI.md files
• Change "Create Pull Request" action to not try merging
• fix(docs): several.md links in docs are incorrect
• Fix /chat list not write terminal escape codes directly
• Docs: Minor change to website nav and headings
• chore(formatting): Fix formatting on main
• feat(ci): Add some very basic smoke testing to CI.yml
• fix(doc) -update release doc
• feat(vscode-ide-companion): enforce auth token validation
• feat(ci): add ability to publish packages to private github registry for testing
• refactor(core): Unify retry logic and remove schema depth check
• Fix oauth support for MCP servers
• Add function processOutput to AgentDefinition and typing for an agent's output
• feat(lint): add sensitive keyword linter
• Update dep versions to fix vulnerabilities
• fix(infra) - Add original PR number into hotfix branch
• fix(doc) - Update releases doc
• test: fix flaky integration tests for compress command
• fix: handle request retries and model fallback correctly
• Stop logging tool call error message to clearcut
• fix(lint): Fixes silent pass for formatting mistakes in gh ci
• Cleanup extension update logic
• Temporarily remove NPM integration tests till we resolve #10517
• chore(actions): mark wombat-token-cli as required
• Re-submission: Make --allowed-tools work in non-interactive mode
• ci(release): remove 'dev' option from manual release
• feat(sessions): Add automatic session cleanup and retention policy
• Modifying stale data
• fix(core): retain user message in history on stream failure
• Update extensions docs
• fix(ci): ensure dry-run is false for scheduled nightly releases
• Fix link to Extension Releasing Guide (broken link)
• Update gemini extensions new
• chore: fix folder trust tests
• use extract-zip and tar libraries to extract archives
• Remove separate --path argument for extensions install command
• Fix quoting when echoing workflow JSON
• Enhance debug profiler to track tree framerate and dispatch errors
• fix(infra) - Fix missing package error
• Get around the initial empty response from gemini-2.5-flash.
• fix(core): Use 127.0.0.1 for IDE client connection
• fix(patch): cherry-pick 467a305 to release/v0.9.0-preview.0-pr-10661 to patch version v0.9.0-preview.0 and create version 0.9.0-preview.1
• fix(patch): cherry-pick 0b6c020 to release/v0.9.0-preview.1-pr-10828 [CONFLICTS]
• fix(patch): cherry-pick dd01af6 to release/v0.9.0-preview.2-pr-11072 to patch version v0.9.0-preview.2 and create version 0.9.0-preview.3
• Cherrypick #10900
• fix(patch): cherry-pick 996c9f5 to release/v0.9.0-preview.4-pr-11164 [CONFLICTS]