🪿 Goose v1.30.0 Release Notes

Released: April 8, 2026

✨ New Features

🖥️ Terminal UI (TUI) Overhaul

• Tab-expandable tool calls — tool call output now collapses cleanly with tab to expand (#8136)
• Improved message rendering — better ordering, streaming/scrolling, and overall visual polish for messages, tool calls, and text entry (#8144, #8156, #8214)
• Independent --text mode — text mode is now decoupled from the normal TUI for a cleaner headless experience (#8210)
• goose serve — new subcommand to run Goose as a background service (#8209)

🔌 Providers & Models

• Gemini OAuth provider — first-class OAuth-based authentication for Google Gemini (#8129)
• Copilot ACP provider — new provider for GitHub Copilot via ACP (#8154)
• Zhipu declarative provider — adds Zhipu AI with configurable ZHIPU_BASE_URL override (#8204)
• Configurable fast_model for declarative providers — lets you specify a lightweight model for quick tasks (#8194)
• Gemma 4 local model support — enable Gemma 4 as a local model option (#8366)
• VMware Tanzu Platform provider improvements — bug fixes, streaming support, and UI enhancements (#8126)

🛡️ Security & Observability

• Egress logging inspector — new security feature to log and inspect outbound network calls (#8149)
• Restricted secrets file permissions — secrets files are now created with tighter OS-level permissions (#8118)

🧩 Extensions & Skills

• Show installed skills in UI — skills are now visible and browsable from the desktop app (#7910)
• Skills platform extension — skills are now managed as a dedicated platform extension (#8377)
• Recursively discover nested skills — skills under configured roots are now found at any depth (#8082)
• Configurable extension timeouts — set timeouts per-extension via ACP _meta or a global default (#8295)
• Reusable ACP provider controls — shared UI components for ACP provider configuration (#8314)
• Rust ACP client for extension methods (#8227)
• Developer MCP server enhancements (#7770)

🌐 Internationalization

• i18n infrastructure — added react-intl based internationalization framework to the desktop app (#8105)

🩺 Diagnostics

• goose doctor — new command to diagnose common configuration and environment issues (#8342)

⚙️ Configuration

• GOOSE_SHOW_FULL_OUTPUT — new config option to disable tool output truncation (#7919)
• GOOSE_CLI_SHOW_THINKING — can now be set in config.yaml (not just env vars) (#8097)
• GOOSE_CONTEXT_LIMIT — now readable from config.yaml (#7900)
• GOOSE_DISABLE_KEYRING — now honoured from config.yaml at startup (#8219)
• Per-delegate max_turns override (#8066)
• skip_canonical_filtering for declarative providers (#8052)

🏗️ Build & Packaging

• Optional native-tls support — alternative to rustls for environments that need system TLS (#8037)
• Feature-gated AWS provider dependencies — behind aws-providers feature flag for leaner builds (#8080)
• Feature-gated telemetry — telemetry is now behind Cargo feature flags (#8119)
• Inference Mesh settings tab (#8094)

🐛 Bug Fixes

Providers

• Fix user message text silently dropped when message contains both text and image (#8071)
• Send empty object instead of null for Bedrock tool input (#8121)
• Fall back to configured models when the models endpoint fetch fails (#7530)
• Prevent Ollama provider from hanging on tool-calling requests (#7723)
• Increase Ollama retry config + add transient-only retry mode (#7677)
• Use safely_parse_json for OpenAI streaming tool arguments (#8208)
• Use v1beta1 API version for Google/MaaS models on GCP Vertex AI (#8278)
• Use build_host_url for GCP Vertex AI location fallback (#8185)
• Parse nested usage payloads in LiteLLM (#8081)
• Prioritize predefined model context_limit over canonical registry (#7888)
• Always pass --model to cursor-agent CLI (#8106)
• Fix models not shown in "Choose Model" modal after OAuth configuration completes (#7891)
• Allow connecting to OAuth servers using protected-resource fallback instead of WWW-Authenticate header (#8148)

Desktop App

• Fix "View as Markdown" feature not working (#8160)
• Fix desktop slash commands (#8341)
• Fix GitHub Copilot auth fails to open browser in Desktop app (#8019)
• Hide hidden extensions in UI (#8346)
• Return raw text when chat parse error occurs (#8402)
• Fix Gemini ACP without an unexpected terminal window (#8101)
• Replace any with proper SVG types in icon components (#7873)
• Fix extension command with quotes in CLI (#8150)
• Fix overflow: clip to not disrupt sticky ToC (#8158)
• Fix i18n compile on Windows (#8202)
• Fix MultilineInput component (#8382)

CLI & Core

• Fix Goose update failing on Linux with ETXTBSY (#8107)
• Resolve user login PATH for MCP extension subprocesses (#7896)
• Replace panics with user-friendly errors in CLI session builder (#7901)
• Strip message wrapper in CLI session title generation (#7996)
• Display platform-correct secrets path in keyring config dialog (#8328)
• Deliver truncation notice as separate content block (#7899)
• Use platform-appropriate commands in developer extension instructions (#7898)
• Reconsolidate split tool-call messages to follow OpenAI format (#7921)
• Clean up MCP subprocesses after abrupt parent exit (#8242)
• Fix Flatpak sandbox preventing access to host system commands (#8109)
• Gate keyring platform features behind target-specific deps (#8039)
• Raise default stack reserve to 8 MB (#8234)

ACP

• Separate ACP sessions from user sessions (#7857)
• Avoid duplicate thought chunks around tool calls (#8215)

⚡ Performance

• Parallelize extension loading in ACP server for faster startup (#8098)
• Mesh binary management — download fresh binary on every start; kill mesh when Goose exits (#8228)

📚 Documentation

• Unified thinking documentation (#7817)
• available_tools field in extension config docs (#7725)
• Memory extension reference moved to docs, trimmed runtime prompt (#7727)
• Standardize on ~/.agents/skills/ as canonical skill path (#8239)
• Nested goosehints guide (#8254)
• MCP Roots guide (#8252)
• Streamable HTTP config for JetBrains 2026.1+ (#8258)
• Autovisualiser for MCP Apps (#8253)
• GOOSE_SHELL env var documentation (#8233)
• Updated reusable recipes docs (#8232)
• Social sharing setup for blog posts (#8102)
• Blog: Adversary Mode — A Second Pair of Eyes on Every Tool Call (#8220)
• Blog: AAIF migration post & homepage rework (#8356)

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