v1.40.0

✨ Features

• Language selection in desktop app #9405
• French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese desktop locales #10072
• Korean localization for desktop app #9856
• Japanese locale support #9768
• Spanish (es) locale support #9833
• Hindi desktop locale #9733
• /status slash command in CLI #9845
• /model slash command for session model switching #8747
• /goal command for agent self-evaluation before finishing #9069
• goose review local code review command #9114
• Peek mode for async background tasks in summon #9519
• Context parameter and working_dir override for delegate tasks #9518 #9520
• GLM-5.2 support #9967
• Together AI declarative provider #9545
• EmpirioLabs as declarative OpenAI-compatible provider #9771
• OrcaRouter as declarative OpenAI-compatible provider #9515
• NEAR AI Cloud provider #9352
• Perplexity as declarative OpenAI-compatible provider #9324
• Alibaba (Qwen via DashScope) declarative provider #9443
• Databricks AI Gateway provider #9274
• Scaleway provider #9254
• Vercel AI Gateway #9144
• xAI SuperGrok OAuth subscription provider #9420
• OpenAI GPT models via AWS Bedrock mantle endpoint #9707
• Azure Entra ID bearer token auth via AZURE_OPENAI_AD_TOKEN #9716
• MLX models support for local inference provider #9154
• Streamable HTTP support for deeplink generator #9954
• Global hints loading from ~/.agents/AGENTS.md #9736
• Unified thinking effort control across all providers #9242
• Canonical thinking modes #9743
• Hooks system for extensibility #9093
• PreToolUse denial in hooks #9304
• Honor blocking Stop hook decisions #9468
• Option to disable automatic update downloads #9872
• Track cache tokens for accurate cost reporting #9752
• Configurable tool output size limit via GOOSE_MAX_TOOL_RESPONSE_SIZE #9256
• Configurable MAX_CODE_BLOCK_LINES via env vars #9301
• GOOSE_FAST_MODEL env var support #9296
• Hugging Face OAuth support with auth tab in settings #9552
• Chat history search in navigation panel #8448
• Import sessions #9474
• View model interactions #9806
• View JSON content #9678
• Image read tool #9607
• goose://new-session deep link #9196
• goose://resume session deep link #9343
• Initial prompt with goose://new-session #9427
• MCP extensions support in open plugins #9471
• Nushell terminal and completion support #8628
• TUI command on goose-cli #9385
• TUI diff viewer #9260
• Unified OTLP logging schema for cross-tool detection #9713
• Prompt injection mitigation enabled by default for internal users #9612
• Encrypted Nostr session sharing #8922
• Quarterly option for scheduler #9076
• Optional --parameters for scheduled recipes #8741
• Worktree-aware directory switcher #8450
• Harbor eval runner #9138
• Linux musl CLI builds #9240

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Mac auto-update config seeding #10132
• Use async reqwest client so OTLP export works in goose serve mode #10100
• Reject non-object tool-call arguments instead of panicking #9832
• Save /edit prompts to history #10011
• Use session.message_count for schedule sessions listing #10026
• Sync session store after provider and model update #10060
• Buffer thinking across stream chunks for DeepSeek/Kimi tool calls #9704
• Surface actionable errors for truncated tool-call arguments #9946
• Show optimistic toggle state when disabling an extension #9882
• Do not pass temperature to ChatGPT Codex provider #9931
• Resolve databricks_v2 pricing and surface cost in standard usage update #9925
• Activate hermit on macOS so STDIO extensions resolve node #9482
• Autovisualiser: accept JSON-encoded string for the data parameter #9838
• Developer/read_image: send a User-Agent on URL image fetches #9927
• Start a turn when /goal or /grind is set #9801
• Pass thinking config to Bedrock Anthropic models #9794
• Preserve Windows backslash paths in custom extension command #9741
• Custom OpenAI provider dropping port when URL scheme is omitted #9730
• ACP cancel race condition #9804
• Removed window goosed when closing window #9818
• Context exceeded checker more precise #9831
• Inherit login-shell PATH in spawned subagents #9737
• Accept string values for GOOSE_CONTEXT_LIMIT #9738
• Clear rejected OAuth credentials after refresh #9694
• Keep extended thinking within the Anthropic output cap #9814
• RPM build-id links disabled #9671
• Preserve custom API path in base_url derivation for OpenAI #9649
• Handle resume deep links #9298
• Repair PATH for plugin hook commands #9615
• Restore Cmd/Ctrl+T new chat shortcut #9614
• Lead with extension description, shorten HTTP/SSE transport label #9653
• Mention menu icon to open the sidebar #9643
• Dedupe React to prevent multiple instances in renderer #9631
• Hermit cleanup in uvx and jbang scripts #9616
• Use blocking OTLP HTTP exporter #9599
• Fall back to default provider when resuming session with unavailable provider #9547
• Provide Tokio runtime for OTLP HTTP exporter batch thread #9541
• Read meta.n_ctx from /v1/models to fix context limit for local servers #9530
• Align session history scrollbar with window edge #9601
• Refresh session name in sidebar after rename #9543
• Show resolved skill supporting file paths #9584
• Implement real streaming via Bedrock ConverseStream API #9579
• Record OpenAI-native cached_tokens in usage metering #9829
• Override API URL option for Moonshot provider #9819
• Detect image paths with spaces #9387
• Restore new chat shortcut navigation #9528
• Evict stale completed tasks to prevent unbounded memory growth #9514
• OAuth callback timeout instead of hanging in WSL #9536
• Warn on unmatched extension names in delegate #9513
• Deleting recently created session and creating new shows deleted session's content #9351
• Close modal when canceling recipe parameter form #9195
• Ensure tool request timestamp precedes tool response timestamp #9462
• Correctly map ollama_cloud to canonical provider #9639
• Incorrect max tokens values for groq provider #9790
• Mark stream decode errors retryable #9723
• Classify Bedrock ValidationException as ExecutionError #9735
• Page through all Databricks AI Gateway v2 endpoints when listing models #9753
• Preserve unparseable extension entries during config refresh #9439
• Surface Anthropic stream refusals as visible errors #9724
• Skip non-recipe project config files in summon #9808
• Dedup duplicate tool-call ids within a turn #9792
• Resolve bundled extensions from discovery #9759
• Include agentInfo in ACP initialize response #9765
• Keep extensions icon visible after switching sessions #9787
• Use media marker parts for vision prompts in local-inference #9452
• Make azure api-version query param optional #9221
• Preserve pending env vars in Add Extension form #9285
• Tolerate missing responses output #9449
• Stop main window growing taller on every launch #9409
• Serialize per-session agent creation to stop duplicate MCP init #9357
• Respect GOOSE_MAX_TURNS in gateway sessions #9354
• Send empty object instead of null for Anthropic tool_use input #9355
• Use context limit from /model/info for LiteLLM custom models #9303
• Skip OTLP signals when protocol=grpc to avoid background-thread panic #9512
• Forward ACP server context window size to clients #9455
• Refresh provider list in Switch Models picker #9408
• Start new chat in current window from recipe param modal #9422
• Use refreshed gcloud token after reauth (retry Vertex AI on 401/403) #9849
• Set TCP_USER_TIMEOUT on streamable HTTP clients #9207
• Activate custom provider after adding via configure #9213
• Reduce excessive MISSING_TRANSLATION warnings for fallback locales #9294
• Eliminate cross-window deep link contamination #9273
• Improve Telegram gateway error reporting and connection reliability #9223
• Enable VT processing on Windows Console Host #9248
• Zero out cost for local providers (ollama, local) #9219
• Autovisualiser: use appInfo instead of clientInfo in MCP Apps init handshake #9249
• Use mkdir -p for self-test workspace initialization #9247
• Show tool name in approval prompt #9216
• Resolve Azure CLI on Windows by using az.cmd #9215
• Handle non-interactive terminal in goose configure on Windows #9214
• Persist accumulated cost in session DB to survive reload #9191
• Prevent tool-use marker leakage in toolshim output #8310
• Re-apply canonical limits when delegate overrides model #9183
• Remove hard-coded React alias that points to wrong location #9842

🔧 Improvements

• Keep turn-context out of the Anthropic prefix cache #10030
• Disable extended thinking for fast-model operations #9815
• Support streamed tool calls without indexes #10023
• Diagnostics migrated to JSON report #9964
• Route MCP elicitations through tool streams #9943
• Propagate elicitation decline and cancel actions end-to-end #9437
• Allow unlisted models in search #9933
• Sanitize extension environment maps #9884
• Drop debug info for dependencies in dev profile #9843
• Databricks responses API support check #9347
• Open Model Gym output dir configurable #9789
• Per-agent timeout configurable (GYM_AGENT_TIMEOUT) #9791
• Session name as source of truth for displayed session titles #9841
• Stricter GGUF requirements with auto detection of tool calling support #9442
• Prefer goose aliases for Databricks v2 inventory #9430
• Build summon instructions per turn #9329
• ACP session list pagination #9199
• Structured per-provider config block, non-destructive provider switching #8977
• Emit trace_output as span attribute instead of event #9255
• Flush OTLP traces reliably on exit with configurable timeout #9228
• Proactive OAuth token refresh to avoid re-auth on every session #8386
• Better parsing of pasted HTML as markdown #9190
• Preserve thinking content for providers that require it #8857
• Dynamically refresh skill instructions each turn #9217
• GOOSE_OAUTH_CALLBACK_PORT support for stable OAuth redirect_uri #9209
• Honor Retry-After on 429 responses #9161
• Coalesce streaming Thinking deltas #9162
• Strip chain-of-thought markers from custom provider output #8635
• Use LRU cache for token counting #9586
• Replace review subprocess timeout with turn limits #9571
• Opt-in ACP last message snippets #9798
• Expose raw provider supported models over ACP #9475
• CLI to list skills with token counts #9326
• Include request URL in provider error messages #9232
• Surface resolved Databricks model metadata #9206
• Ensure parallel tool image responses don't interleave for Databricks #9241
• Slash commands (built-in, skill, recipe) in ACP server #9238
• Open-plugins generalization + skills #9112
• Use plain '> ' prompt instead of goose emoji #9305

📚 Documentation

• Name the message field in the hooks payload guide #9913
• Custom agents guide #9293
• Correct custom agents guide #9947
• Add guide for connecting goose Desktop to a remote goosed server #9275
• Hooks guide #9288
• Blog post for hooks feature #9227
• Document summon extension requirement for delegate and load tools #9231
• ACP clients documentation update #9772
• AAIF migration blog post #9866
• Self-improving agents blog post #9846
• Orchestrating with goose blog post #9104
• Goose with peekaboo blog post #8884
• Built-in Local Inference blog post #8808
• MiniMax and office QA benchmark findings blog post #8984
• Scaleway provider documentation #9423
• SaladCloud AI Gateway documentation #9253
• Scholar Sidekick tutorial page #9477
• Documentation reorganization #9310