Key highlights for week of 11/17/2025 - v0.17.0

[NTaylorMullen]

• 🎉 New Extensions:
  • Google Workspace: Integrate Gemini CLI with your Workspace data. Write docs, build slides, chat with others or even get your calc on in sheets.
    gemini extensions install https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/workspace
    • Blog: https://allen.hutchison.org/2025/11/19/bringing-the-office-to-the-terminal/
  • Redis: Manage and search data in Redis with natural language
    gemini extensions install https://github.com/redis/mcp-redis
  • Anomalo: Query your data warehouse table metadata and quality status through commands and natural language.gemini extensions install https://github.com/datagravity-ai/anomalo-gemini-extension
• Experimental Permission Improvements: We are now experimenting with a new policy engine in Gemini CLI. This allows users and administrators to create fine-grained policy for tool calls. Currently behind a flag. See https://geminicli.com/docs/core/policy-engine/ for more information.
  • Blog: Blog: https://allen.hutchison.org/2025/11/26/the-guardrails-of-autonomy/
• Gemini 3 Support for Paid: Gemini 3 support has been rolled out to all API key, Google AI Pro or Google AI Ultra (for individuals, not businesses) and Gemini Code Assist Enterprise users. Enable it via /settings and toggling on Preview Features.
• Updated UI Rollback: We’ve temporarily rolled back our updated UI to give it more time to bake. This means for a time you won’t have embedded scrolling or mouse support. You can re-enable with /settings -> "Use Alternate Screen Buffer" true.
• Model in History: Users can now toggle in /settings to display model in their chat history. (gif, pr by @scidomino)
• Multi-Uninstall: Users can now uninstall multiple extensions with a single command. (pic, pr by @JayadityaGit)
• 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!