Key highlights for week of 7/7/2025

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• Nightly Feed: Install the Gemini CLI nightly with npm install -g @google/gemini-cli@nightly (pic)
• Images:
  • You can now paste images to Gemini CLI with ctrl + v (pr by @jasondasher)
  • SVG Support (pr by @PugazhendhiDev)
• Better Markdown: Better markdown rendering for tables (pr by @zfflxx)
• MCP:
  • Servers that utilize SSE now also support headers (details, pr by @jackwotherspoon)
  • includeTools / excludeTools can now be specified on MCP server configurations (vid, pr by @jdemeulenaere)
• Theme Dialog: Theme dialog can now scroll (pr by @miguelsolorio)
• Headless authentication: Gemini CLI can now authenticate with Google Login flow in browserless environments (pr by @sethtroisi).
• Tool Context Management: Long tool outputs now get intelligently summarized to not blow out client context (pr by @anj-s).
• System wide settings: Allow a system wide Gemini CLI settings.json option (details, pr by @chrstnb)
• Max Session turns: Users can specify a maxSessionTurns to control how long an individual session can run for (details, pr by @anj-s)
• --prompt-interactive: Start and immediately run a prompt through Gemini CLI (vid, pr by @taeold)
• --allowed-mcp-server-names: Restrict what MCP servers are used for a given session (vid, pr by @teeler)
• Small features, Polish, Reliability & Bug Fixes: A large amount changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!