Goose v1.40.0 Changelog

This release is all about making Goose more global, flexible, and easier to control. Whether you prefer using a visual desktop app in your native language or love hacking away in the terminal, these updates give you more ways to connect to different AI models, manage your tasks, and keep track of your work.

What's new

• Language Selection: You can now change the language of the desktop app. Supported languages now include French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and Hindi.
• New Slash Commands: In the command-line interface (CLI), you can now use /status to check on things, /model to switch your AI model in the middle of a session, and /goal to make the AI double-check its work against your objectives before it stops.
• Local Code Reviews: A new goose review command lets you run code reviews locally on your machine.
• Image Reader Tool: Goose can now look at and read images to help you solve visual tasks.
• Deep Links: You can now use special web-like links (like goose://new-session) to instantly open Goose, start a new chat, or resume an old one from other apps.
• Searchable Chat History: A new search bar in the navigation panel lets you quickly find past conversations.
• New AI Providers: Goose now connects to a huge variety of new AI services, including Perplexity, xAI (SuperGrok), Hugging Face, Databricks, and Alibaba.

Improvements

• Thinking Effort Control: You can now adjust how much "thinking effort" the AI uses, helping you balance speed versus deep problem-solving.
• Cost Tracking: Goose now tracks "cache tokens" (previously processed data that the AI remembers) to give you a much more accurate report of how much your AI usage actually costs.
• Terminal Upgrades: Added support for Nushell (a modern, structured terminal) and a new TUI (Terminal User Interface) diff viewer, which visually highlights code changes right in your command line.
• Output Limits: You can now set limits on how much text a tool can output so your screen doesn't get flooded with massive walls of code.
• Manual Updates: If you don't want Goose updating itself in the background, you can now disable automatic update downloads.

Fixes

• Crashing on Bad Inputs: Fixed a bug where Goose would crash (or "panic") if a tool received unexpected data formats; now, it safely rejects them and keeps running.
• DeepSeek/Kimi "Thinking" Glitch: Fixed an issue where the AI's internal thinking process would get broken or cut off when streaming responses from DeepSeek or Kimi models.
• Missing History: Prompts used with the /edit command are now properly saved to your chat history so you don't lose them.
• Windows File Paths: Fixed a bug where Windows backslashes (\) in file paths were getting lost or broken in custom extensions.
• Image Fetching Blocks: The image reader tool now properly identifies itself when downloading images from the web, preventing websites from blocking the request.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.