Key highlights for week of 9/1/2025 - v0.4.0

[NTaylorMullen]

Here is Gemini CLI’s September 1st weekly update for v0.4.0

Key Highlights:

• 🎉Gemini CLI CloudRun and Security Integrations 🎉: Automate app deployment and security analysis with CloudRun and Security extension integrations. Once installed deploy your app to the cloud with /deploy and find and fix security vulnerabilities with /security:analyze.
  • Announcement and how to get started: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/automate-app-deployment-and-security-analysis-with-new-gemini-cli-extensions
• Experimental
  • Edit Tool: Give our new edit tool a try by setting "useSmartEdit": true in settings.json! (feedback, pr by @silviojr)
  • Model Talking to Itself Fix: We’ve removed a model workaround that would encourage Gemini CLI to continue conversations on your behalf. This may be disruptive and can be disabled via "skipNextSpeakerCheck": false in your settings.json (feedback, pr by @SandyTao520)
  • Prompt Completion: Get real-time AI suggestions to complete your prompts as you type. Enable it with "general": { "enablePromptCompletion": true } and share your feedback! (gif, pr by @3ks)
• Footer Visibility Configuration: Customize the CLI's footer look and feel in settings.json (pr by @miguelsolorio)
  • hideCWD: hide current working directory.
  • hideSandboxStatus: hide sandbox status.
  • hideModelInfo: hide current model information.
  • hideContextSummary: hide request context summary.
• Citations: For enterprise Code Assist licenses users will now see citations in their responses by default. Enable this yourself with "showCitations": true (pic, pr by @scidomino)
• Pro Quota Dialog: Handle daily Pro model usage limits with an interactive dialog that lets you immediately switch auth or fallback. (pic, pr by @JayadityaGit)
• Custom Commands @: Embed local file or directory content directly into your custom command prompts using @{path} syntax (gif, pr by @abhipatel12)
• 2.5 Flash Lite Support: You can now use the gemini-2.5-flash-lite model for Gemini CLI via gemini -m …. (gif, pr by @psinha40898)
• CLI Streamlining: We have deprecated a number of command line arguments in favor of settings.json alternatives. We will remove these arguments in a future release. See the PR for the full list of deprecations. (pr by @allenhutchison)
• JSON Session Summary: Track and save detailed CLI session statistics to a JSON file for performance analysis with --session-summary <path> (pr by @leehagoodjames)
• Robust Keyboard Handling: More reliable and consistent behavior for arrow keys, special keys (Home, End, etc.), and modifier combinations across various terminals. (pr by @deepankarsharma)
• MCP Loading Indicator: Provides visual feedback during CLI initialization when connecting to multiple servers. (pr by @swissspidy)
• 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!