v0.26.0-nightly.20260121.211d2c5fd
Gemini CLISummary
This release introduces several new capabilities, including an experiment gate for the event-driven scheduler and enhanced context compression for agents. Several critical bugs were resolved, such as fixing UI rendering order, resolving Windows crashes, and improving error reporting for agent delegation failures.
New Features
- Added an experiment gate for the event-driven scheduler in the CLI.
- Enabled improved shell redirection transparency and security in the core.
- Introduced enhanced anchored iterative context compression with self-verification.
- Set admin.skills.enabled based on the advancedFeaturesEnabled setting.
- Applied admin settings to gemini skills, mcp, and extensions commands.
- Added telemetry to track adoption and usage of plan mode.
- Added a flash lite utility fallback chain.
- Added initial evaluation for the generalist agent.
- Unified agent enabled and disabled flags.
- Ensured all properties in the `hooks` object are event names.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed UI issue where rationale was not rendering before tool calls.
- Fixed maintainer check in workflows to use author_association.
- Fixed return type of fireSessionStartEvent to defaultHookOutput.
- Fixed deduplication of ModelInfo emission in GeminiClient.
- Fixed update of currentSequenceModel when the model changes.
- Provided compact, actionable errors for agent delegation failures.
- Migrated BeforeModel and AfterModel hooks to the HookSystem.
- Fixed telemetry token count update after session resume.
- Fixed Windows crash related to resizing a pty that has already exited.
- Resolved auto model selection in the default strategy.
- Resolved Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+J newline issues in the CLI.
- Fixed sending the gemini-cli version as the mcp client version.
Improvements
- Disabled checkpointing if git is not installed (A2A context).
- Updated documentation for project context and the pr-creator workflow.
- Fixed instructions related to mcp.