Key highlights for week of 9/15/2025 - v0.6.0

[NTaylorMullen]

Here is Gemini CLI’s September 15th weekly update for v0.6.0

Key Highlights:

• 🎉 Higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers: we’re psyched to finally announce that Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers now get access to significantly higher 2.5 quota limits for Gemini CLI!
  • Announcement: https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-cli-code-assist-higher-limits/
• 🎉Gemini CLI Databases and BigQuery Extensions: Connect Gemini CLI to all of your cloud data with Gemini CLI.
  • Announcement and how to get started with each of the below extensions: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/gemini-cli-extensions-for-google-data-cloud
  • AlloyDB: Interact, manage and observe AlloyDB for PostgresSQL databases (manage, observe)
  • BigQuery: Connect and query your BigQuery datasets or utilize a sub-agent for contextual insights (query, sub-agent)
  • Cloud SQL: Interact, manage and observe Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL (manage, observe), Cloud SQL for MySQL (manage, observe) and Cloud SQL for SQL Server (manage, observe) databases.
  • Dataplex: Discover, manage, and govern data and AI artifacts (extension)
  • Firestore: Interact with Firestore databases, collections and documents (extension)
  • Looker: Query data, run Looks and create dashboards (extension)
  • MySQL: Interact with MySQL databases (extension)
  • Postgres: Interact with PostgreSQL databases (extension)
  • Spanner: Interact with Spanner databases (extension)
  • SQL Server: Interact with SQL Server databases (extension)
  • MCP Toolbox: Configure and load custom tools for more than 30+ data sources (extension)
• ‼️The Three-Day Drop: [██████████] 101% ..........
• JSON Output Mode: Have Gemini CLI output JSON with --output-format json when invoked headlessly for easy parsing and post-processing. Includes response, stats and errors. (pic, pr by @jerop)
• Keybinding Triggered Approvals: When you use shortcuts (shift+y or shift+tab) to activate YOLO/auto-edit modes any pending confirmation dialogs will now approve. (pr by @bulkypanda)
• Chat Sharing: Convert the current conversation to a Markdown or JSON file with /chat share <file.md|file.json> (demo, pr by @rramkumar1)
• Prompt Search: Search your prompt history using ctrl+r. (demo, pr by @Aisha630)
• Input Undo/Redo: Recover accidentally deleted text in the input prompt using ctrl+z (undo) and ctrl+shift+z (redo). (pr by @masiafrest)
• Loop Detection Confirmation: When loops are detected you are now presented with a dialog to disable detection for the current session. (pic, pr by @SandyTao520)
• Direct to Google Cloud Telemetry: Directly send telemetry to Google Cloud for a simpler and more streamlined setup. (pr by @jerop)
• Visual Mode Indicator Revamp: ‘shell’, 'accept edits' and 'yolo' modes now have colors to match their impact / usage. Input box now also updates. (shell, accept-edits, yolo, pr by @miguelsolorio)
• 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!