Key highlights for week of 10/6/2025 - v0.9.0

[NTaylorMullen]

Here is Gemini CLI’s October 6th weekly update for v0.9.0

Key Highlights:

• 🎉 Interactive Shell: Run interactive commands like vim, rebase -i, or even gemini 😎 directly in Gemini CLI's shell mode
  • Blog: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/say-hello-to-a-new-level-of-interactivity-in-gemini-cli/
• Install Pre-release Extensions: Install the latest --pre-release versions of extensions. Used for when an extension’s release hasn’t been marked as "latest". (pr by @jakemac53)
• Simplified Extension Creation: Create a new, empty extension. Templates are no longer required. (pr by @chrstnb)
• OpenTelemetry GenAI Metrics: Aligns telemetry with industry-standard semantic conventions for improved interoperability. (spec, pr by @jerop)
• List Memory Files: Quickly find the location of your long-term memory files with /memory list. (pr by @sgnagnarella)
• Small features, Polish, Reliability & Bug Fixes: A large amount of changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!