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Google's official release notes. Antigravity: Google's AI coding app. Gemini CLI: Gemini in a terminal window. Gemini app: the website and phone app. Gemini API: what developers build with.
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Antigravity
New Permissions System & Terminal and Git version control for Enterprise
Enterprise and Business accounts can now use the integrated terminal and Git version control in the sidebar. This release also cuts memory use in long conversations and fixes a range of stability and accessibility issues.
New model
New models: Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking generally available (GA): Released two new audio-to-audio models for real-time voice applications using the Live API: Gemini 3.8 Live (gemini-3.8-live): The default option for most low-latency voice agent experiences and real-time dialogue without reasoning delays. Features interleaved reasoning, default asynchronous function calling, and full session client content updates. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking): High-reasoning audio-to-audio model supporting background reasoning during live audio interactions, recommended when higher background reasoning is required. To get started, see the Live API guide, the Capabilities guide, and the Thinking guide.
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Conversation compaction controls, forward-looking budget scopes, and tool output token truncation
This release introduces first-class conversation compaction controls via CompactionConfig, delta and forward-looking budget scopes for session resumption, tool output token truncation limits, and expanded arithmetic operations on UsageMetadata. It also delivers OS-level terminal sandboxing examples and automated tool wrapper reflection preservation.
Antigravity
Plugin MCP namespacing, conversation memory leak fixes, oversized file guardrails, and unsandboxed rule…
Enhances startup migration diagnostics for unsandboxed permission rules, speeds up /resume with stale caches, automatically namespaces plugin MCP servers to avoid collision, resolves step-cache goroutine leaks, and fixes critical issues with Gemini API thinking block retention, oversized binary file loading, artifact reviews, and database cleanup.
Antigravity
Custom agent component exclusions, resilient model API retry handling, and conversation continuation fixes
Introduces excludeDefaultComponents for custom agent Markdown definitions, adds automated exponential backoff retries for transient model API errors, improves MCP open object schema validation, and fixes issues with --continue workspace resolution, inline terminal screen flashes, Remote Control auth display, and sandbox status indicators.
Gemini app
Bring Google Gemini to your PC with the new Windows app
What: The Gemini app is now available on Windows. Press Alt + Space to summon Gemini instantly from anywhere on your PC whenever you need it. You can get quick answers, draft messages, and brainstorm ideas right alongside your active applications. Inside your dedicated desktop workspace, you have access to everything you love about Gemini. You can connect to Google apps like Gmail and Google Drive to summarize documents and find information quickly, generate custom images with Nano Banana, and dive into in-depth research on any topic. The app is available on Windows 10 or later. Download it today at gemini.google/desktop. Why: Your desktop is where you get work done. Bringing Gemini straight to your PC with instant shortcut access keeps you in your flow, making it simple to get answers and create visuals right alongside your everyday tools.
Antigravity
Background service registration with remote-control, expanded half-page scrolling, and content safety…
Introduces remote-control service manager subcommands to run the CLI as a persistent background daemon, broadens half-page scrolling support and keybindings, and resolves issues with content filter handling, scratch directory watchers, plugin MCP initialization, schema validation, and conversation resumption.
Antigravity
Model API retry resilience, headless print optimizations, and detailed tool approval prompts
Improves resilience to transient model API errors with extended exponential backoff, accelerates startup and sign-in by reading cached credentials, streamlines headless execution and error reporting, enhances tool approval prompts with contextual action descriptions and reasons, and fixes issues across plugin reinstalls, plugin MCP working directories, subagent lifecycle states, and command memory leaks.
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Introducing new Documents section and several UX enhancements for organization and control
External files such as Google Drive links, PDFs, and Office documents now have their own Documents section in the sidebar. This release also adds a virtualized viewer for large code and data artifacts, an option to hide whitespace-only changes in diffs, and clearer warnings when a configuration file fails to parse.
Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI 0.59.0
2 fixes2 otherprevent SSRF in MCP OAuth metadata discovery and authentication. enforce fail-closed workspace trust and filter mcpServers in restricted mode.
Antigravity
Mid-conversation model execution, custom agent subagent dependencies, and MCP parameter validation fixes
Introduces /model for running one-off prompts with alternative models, adds conversation_title metadata to status line scripts, adds subagent dependency declarations in custom agent Markdown frontmatter, and delivers fixes for MCP argument schema validation, headless permission handling, Vim normal mode shortcuts, and cross-conversation artifact access prompts.
Antigravity
Artifact viewer half-page scrolling, workspace picker grouping setting, and SQLite WAL flushing
Adds half-page scrolling (Ctrl+D / Ctrl+U) to the artifact viewer, adds the pickerGrouping configuration setting for /resume, improves Mermaid flowchart ASCII rendering, updates unselected model reasoning defaults to medium, and resolves issues with worktree cleanup, SQLite WAL checkpointing on exit, and subagent approval prompts.
Gemini API
Lyria 3.5 generally available: Released the next generation of Google's music generation model: lyria-3.5:…
Lyria 3.5 generally available (GA): Released the next generation of Google's music generation model: lyria-3.5: Full-length song generation with improved musical coherence, natural vocals, and fine-grained duration and structural control. The model supports text and image inputs and generates high-fidelity 44.1 kHz stereo audio.
Antigravity
Workspace-grouped resume view, Gemini 3.8 Flash support, and Markdown agent ambient customization inheritance
Adds an opt-in workspace-grouped view to the /resume picker with Ctrl+F toggling, adds Gemini 3.8 Flash to the model catalog for GEMINI_API_KEY users, updates Markdown-defined custom agents to inherit ambient skills, rules, and subagents by default, and delivers fixes for long MCP OAuth authorization codes, Windows skill path separators, /boost worker tools, and runtime nil pointer crashes.
Antigravity
Gemini 3.8 Flash using ADC in AGY Enterprise
Enterprise users can now access Google's flagship Gemini 3.8 Flash reasoning models using ADC.
Antigravity
MCP panel navigation improvements, multi-line comment support in mcp_config.json, and headless stream cleanup
Improves /mcp panel arrow key navigation and action cycling, adds support for comments and trailing commas in mcp_config.json, ensures headless CLI streams close cleanly on exit, and delivers fixes for duplicate agent listings, deleted working directory startup, and /btw side questions with active goals.
Antigravity
Quoting, /boost, and improved Settings
You can now highlight part of a response and quote it as context for a follow-up prompt, and paid users get the new /boost command for a deeper multi-agent reasoning pass. This release also brings UX improvements across settings, the chat panel, and sidebar navigation.
New model
New model: Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash generally available (GA): Released gemini-3.8-flash, our most intelligent Flash model, engineered for long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and complex enterprise workflows. To get started, see the Gemini 3.8 Flash model page and the Gemini 3.8 Flash guide.
Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI 0.58.0
4 fixes3 otherensure consistent symlink evaluation in ignore path handling. isolate Docker and container runtime sockets and binaries in macOS Seatbelt.
Gemini API
Agentic video understanding: Released agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5…
Agentic video understanding: Released agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite across the Interactions and GenerateContent APIs. The model dynamically navigates video timelines, requesting transcripts, frames, or audio tracks on demand. This approach uses up to 88% fewer tokens for long-form content compared to static processing. To get started, see the Agentic video understanding guide.
Antigravity
Model autocompletion improvements, subagent streaming optimizations, and MCP tool resolution fixes
Improves /model autocompletion with Tab acceptance, reduces subagent streaming telemetry overhead, and delivers stability fixes for prompt hooks, MCP tools in subagents, tool call IDs in request history, and OAuth token refreshes.
Antigravity
Default Gemini 3.8 Flash model upgrade, lightweight agent configuration, and Vertex AI Express mode
The 0.1.16 release updates the default model for new agents to gemini-3.8-flash for enhanced reasoning capabilities, introduces a.lightweight() method on agent configs for small and local models, adds Vertex AI Express mode with API keys, and expands tool runner support for callable classes and dataclass functors.
Antigravity
Model selection command arguments, reasoning effort autocompletion, transient retry handling, and UI…
Adds direct /model switching with inline ghost text autocompletion, dynamic /effort hint completion, artifact filesystem event coalescing, and fixes for transient HTTP 502 retries, CPU redraw utilization, and Windows path resolution.
New model
New model: Gemini Omni Flash
Gemini Omni Flash generally available (GA): Released gemini-omni-1.1-flash, the GA version of our fast, conversational video generation and editing model. This release includes significant new capabilities: Video extension: Seamlessly extend existing videos by generating continuations at the end of a clip using the extend task or directly with a prompt. Interpolation (first + last frame): Generate a video transitioning between two images using the image_to_video task with up to 2 images. Resolution control: New resolution parameter in video_config supports 360p, 720p (default), 1080p, and 4k outputs. 1080p and 4K outputs are generated using upscaling. The existing gemini-omni-flash-preview endpoint will be deprecated on September 30, 2026. To get started, see the Gemini Omni Flash model page and the omni guide.
Antigravity
Voice dictation, embedded ripgrep code search, status line cost metrics, and UTF-8 encoding fixes
Adds /voice dictation with mic-serve SSH forwarding, embedded ripgrep for consistent agent code search, custom status line cost tracking, granular script runner permission suggestions, and UTF-8 file editing and MCP error fixes.
Antigravity
Generative UI and UI improvements
Generative UI renders HTML artifacts inline in chat, with support for KaTeX math and Chart.js and Plotly charts. This release also adds side-by-side terminal splits, the Darcula theme, and @path/to/file references inside AGENTS.md and custom rule files.
New model
New model: Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe generally available (GA): Released two dedicated speech-to-text models based on Gemini's audio understanding: Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (gemini-3.5-transcribe): High-accuracy, low-latency non-streaming speech-to-text with utterance-based language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing (up to 1,000 terms). Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live (gemini-3.5-transcribe-live): Low-latency, bidirectional streaming speech-to-text over WebSockets using the Live API, supporting interim and finalized transcription events, Smart transcription mode, and multiple Voice Activity Detection (VAD) strategies. To get started, see the Audio transcription guide, the Live transcription guide, and the Gemini 3.5 Transcribe model page.
Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI 0.57.0
1 new7 fixes16 otheradd tool call formatter and integrate failure summaries.
Antigravity
Skill icon branding, empty directory indexing in @-completion, and headless exit code fixes
Adds skill icon branding with Unicode alignment in catalogs and slash commands, indexes empty directories in @ path completion, auto-approves workspace-scoped read access in review mode, and fixes headless print mode error handling.
Antigravity
Subagent-scoped custom tools, context compaction lifecycle hooks, and universal JSON schema normalization
The 0.1.15 release introduces subagent-exclusive tool scoping to reduce context overhead, adds an on_compaction lifecycle hook for observing context checkpointing, expands platform compatibility with Alpine Linux musl wheels, resolves workspace path normalization and custom Vertex endpoint routing, and adds universal JSON Schema normalization for custom Python tools when targeting local OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoints.