Change8

v0.42.0-nightly.20260429.g6d9911393

Gemini CLI
2 features9 fixes2 improvementscliextensionsmcp

Summary

This release introduces a new bot for time-series metric analysis and suggests repository improvements. Key fixes include ensuring correct handling of non-string model flags and preventing ACP stdout pollution. Additionally, environment variable settings now support boolean and number casting.

New Features

  • Introduced a bot that performs time-series metric analysis and suggests repository management improvements.
  • Enabled support for boolean and number casting for environment variables defined in settings.json.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed resolution issues when handling non-string model flags in the core.
  • Added an error message for ENOTDIR (Not a directory) issues in the user experience.
  • Prevented Application Control Plane (ACP) standard output pollution from SessionEnd hooks.
  • Fixed preservation of Request headers in the DevTools activity logger.
  • Prevented automatic updates from switching to less stable release channels.
  • Fixed passing of node arguments via NODE_OPTIONS during relaunch to correctly support SEA.
  • Fixed handling of DECKPAM keypad Enter sequences within the terminal.
  • Added support for missing OAuth fields during subagent parsing in the core.
  • Fixed disconnection of extension-backed MCP clients during stopExtension calls.

Improvements

  • Updated policy so that transient errors are no longer incorrectly marked as terminal.
  • Updated documentation links for plan-mode session retention to point to the actual /settings labels.

Related Documentation

Gemini CLI Documentation

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