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Goose v1.49.0

What's new in Goose v1.49.0, released Sep 3, 2026 (). Newer: v1.56.0 (Oct 23, 2026)

Release notes

Goose v1.49.0

✨ Features

  • Auto-updater for desktop application #10614
  • Linux ARM64 desktop release packages #11518
  • Load extensions in the background so the CLI prompt is immediately usable #10403
  • Title sessions by subject, not workflow step #11135
  • Interactive git branch indicator in chat bottom bar #11290
  • on_failure block for PreToolUse hooks #11449
  • Web-search and browser-use built-in skills #11233
  • Model-native audio transcription provider #10589
  • --with-extension can now name its extension #11127
  • Auto-focus chat input when user starts typing #11184
  • Collapse scheduled job sessions into accordion in chat history #11265
  • Select saved recipes when creating a schedule #10892
  • Show recent used models in chat footer model picker #11097
  • PreToolUseResult event and stable tool_call_id across tool lifecycle #11120
  • Sort configured providers to the top of the provider list #11409
  • OpenRouter session_id forwarding and app category header #10868
  • ACP thinking effort derivation and forwarding #10949
  • GPT-5.6 follow-up support for Codex and Responses API #10460
  • Pre-registered OAuth clients for streamable_http extensions #11182
  • OTEL request params, response metadata, tool call parity, and agent identification #11261
New Providers
  • Opper as a declarative OpenAI-compatible provider #11589
  • Databricks Unity Catalog model services discovery #11575
  • TrustedRouter declarative provider #11422
  • OpenCode Zen gateway as a declarative provider #10939
  • Gondola as declarative OpenAI-compatible provider #11421
  • SayGM as declarative OpenAI-compatible provider #11267
  • Lynkr as declarative OpenAI-compatible provider #11372
  • PleumRouter declarative provider #10479
  • Z.ai GLM-5.3 (replacing GLM-5.2) #11226
  • OpenAI GPT-5.6 (sol/terra/luna) via Bedrock #10502
  • Custom provider cost fields for cost tracking #11220

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Unify context limit resolution behind provider API #11213
  • Keep using valid MCP access tokens without a refresh token #11324
  • Provider save no longer overwrites stored config with defaults #11517
  • Deduplicate parallel tool-pair summaries #11195
  • Exclude Git metadata from project hints #11148
  • Honor remote working directory for new chats and allow typed paths #11322
  • Sanitize hidden Unicode in Bedrock tools #11121
  • Avoid sending images to non-vision capable models #11496
  • Reject cmd.exe commands containing newlines #11537
  • Honest compaction failure message and fast-fail when no tool responses exist #10500
  • Chat input freeze after opening model picker #11525
  • Bound non-streaming JSON responses #11109
  • Reject non-object response schemas in recipes #11478
  • Coalesce consecutive Thinking blocks in collect_stream #11317
  • Decouple source file and tool response limits #11391
  • Discover GGUF repos with non-standard filenames #11005
  • Flip select menus up when the window clips them #11495
  • Bedrock prefer HTTP bearer auth when configured #11562
  • MCP sampling for reasoning-first responses #11092
  • Keep recalled history agent-visible #11490
  • Fail closed on invalid default GCP credentials #11363
  • Bound handoff memo so long sessions stay resumable #11204
  • Goose unable to work with DeepSeek and Alibaba using OpenAI responses API #11298
  • Show tool inputs before approval #10932
  • Deduplicate enabled builtins #11340
  • Send explicit thinking disabled to adaptive Claude models #11177
  • Handle error code for context length exceeded #11283
  • Include required annotations field on replayed output_text items #11263
  • Isolate concurrent subagent notifications #10772
  • Validate recipe parameter values #11234
  • Re-enable minijinja builtins so documented recipe filters work #11310
Security Fixes
  • Enforce per-turn model tool allowlists #11426
  • Stop exposing provider secret suffixes #11476
  • Restrict code mode callback output #11471
  • Restrict app management tools #11470
  • Preserve local inference message text #11452
  • Preserve session extension identities #11420
  • Bound local image reads in developer extension #11419
  • Confine agent listing to source roots #11444

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