Gemini CLI v0.50.0 Changelog

This update is all about making the Gemini CLI (a command-line tool that lets developers talk to the Gemini AI directly from their terminal) smarter at finding tools, while making the behind-the-scenes release process much safer. If you are a developer using this tool, you'll get a smoother experience, and the team making the tool has better safeguards to prevent broken updates from reaching you.

What's new

• Tool Registry Discovery: The CLI can now automatically search for and find available tools in its registry. This makes it much easier to connect Gemini to external tools and functions without you having to configure them manually.

Fixes

• Safer Software Releases: Several fixes were made to the automated system that packages and ships this software (called the CI/CD pipeline) to make sure only working code gets released:
• Stopping Bad Releases: If something goes wrong while publishing a new version to NPM (the public library where developers download this tool), the system will now immediately crash and stop rather than accidentally uploading a broken version.
• No More "Shadow" Files: Fixed a testing bug where the system got confused between the actual release version of the tool and temporary development versions (a problem known as "binary shadowing").
• Cleaner Installation Checks: The release verifier now ignores unnecessary background scripts during test installations, making the verification process cleaner and more reliable.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.