Gemini CLI — May 2026 Releases
7 releases in May 2026.
What's new in Gemini CLI, May 2026
Gemini CLI tightens workspace trust and shell safety, merges Auto modes, adds Gemma 4
Gemini CLI's May 2026 releases focused on security and permissions: headless mode now enforces workspace trust and loads .env files more securely, and shell command validation gained a core tools allowlist. Seven releases shipped, from v0.41.0 to v0.44.1.
Other changes include experimental support for Gemma 4 models, faster boot by fetching experiments and quota asynchronously, and a single merged Auto mode in v0.44.0. Shell redirections are now auto-approved in AUTOEDIT mode, and v0.43.0 allows redirection in YOLO and AUTOEDIT modes without sandboxing. Fixes covered a hard crash on loop detection, OAuth refresh token handling, keychain auth for --list-sessions and non-interactive mode, a chat corruption bug in the context manager, and automatic updates switching to less stable channels. The v0.41.1, v0.41.2 and v0.44.1 releases were patch cherry-picks, and the notes give no detail on their contents beyond that.
- Headless mode enforces workspace trust and loads .env files securely (v0.41.0)
- Shell command validation improved and a core tools allowlist added (v0.41.0)
- Experimental support for Gemma 4 models (v0.41.0)
- Faster boot: experiments and quota are fetched asynchronously (v0.41.0)
- Auto modes merged into a single Auto mode (v0.44.0)
- Shell redirections auto-approved in AUTOEDIT mode (v0.44.0)
Upgrading from v0.40.1? See every change through v0.44.1.
- v0.44.1 (May 28, 2026) — What's Changed fix(patch): cherry-pick bd53951 to release/v0.44.0-pr-27496 [CONFLICTS] by @gemini-cli-robot in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini
- v0.44.0 (May 27, 2026) — What's Changed chore(release): bump version to 0.44.0-nightly.20260512.g022e8baef by @gemini-cli-robot in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/
- v0.43.0 (May 22, 2026) — What's Changed feat(core): steer model to use edit tool for surgical edits, fix a typo by @aishaneeshah in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
- v0.42.0 (May 12, 2026) — What's Changed fix(cli): prevent automatic updates from switching to less stable channels by @Adib234 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/p
- v0.41.2 (May 6, 2026) — What's Changed fix(patch): cherry-pick 02995ba to release/v0.41.1-pr-26568 to patch version v0.41.1 and create version 0.41.2 by @gemini-cli-robot in
- v0.41.1 (May 5, 2026) — What's Changed fix(patch): cherry-pick 3627f47 to release/v0.41.0-pr-26542 to patch version v0.41.0 and create version 0.41.1 by @gemini-cli-robot in
- v0.41.0 (May 5, 2026) — What's Changed chore(release): bump version to 0.41.0-nightly.20260423.gaa05b4583 by @gemini-cli-robot in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/