Goose changelog: what's new each month
Every stable Goose release summarised by month: the highlights, new features, improvements, fixes and anything you need to act on. 3 months covered; the current month updates daily.
October 2026 · so far
1 release: 1.53.0
October brought expanded model support, new interaction features for MCP apps, and improvements to the development toolkit. The month focused on enhancing flexibility for both users and developers.
Highlights
- Resizable Picture-in-Picture window for MCP Apps gives you more control over your workspace layout.
- New Quoting action lets you append selected conversation text directly to the composer.
- Support added for Opus 5.5, GPT-6-sol, and GPT-6-luna models.
- Model discovery API available for GDK Provider to help developers find available models.
- Live model metadata fetching from models.dev with bundled fallback for reliability.
New
- Resizable Picture-in-Picture window for MCP Apps
- Quoting action to append selected conversation text to composer
- Model discovery API for GDK Provider
- Meta Muse Code provider
- Session rename command in CLI
- Lean ACP-only Goose binary option
Improved
- Model metadata now fetches live from models.dev with bundled fallback to ensure up-to-date information
September 2026
5 releases: 1.49.0 → 1.52.0
September brought significant expansions to Goose's capabilities, with new voice features, broader model support, and enhanced backend connectivity options. The month focused on improving the user experience across desktop and CLI while strengthening security and platform flexibility.
- Snowflake connections now require HTTPS
- Recipe parameters limited to maximum 32 params, 200 select options, and 128 KiB total size
Highlights
- Live voice conversations now available in the desktop application
- Support for GPT-6 Astra, Opus 5.5, and other latest models
- Web-search and browser-use integrated as built-in skills
- Auto-updater for the desktop application
- Linux ARM64 desktop packages released
New
- Live voice conversations in the desktop app
- Auto-updater for desktop application
- Linux ARM64 desktop release packages
- Web-search and browser-use built-in skills
- Model-native audio transcription provider
- Tool calling capability for goose-agent
- Opt-in terminal bell notification when a turn finishes or approval is needed
- Decisions provider with OpenRouter and Jev implementations
Improved
- Extensions now load in the background so the CLI prompt is immediately usable
- Sessions titled by subject instead of workflow step
- Interactive git branch indicator added to chat bottom bar
- Desktop routing now via state-machine loop with ACP prompt meta
- External backend connection failures report their real cause
- Custom provider configuration files are now protected
- Tool approval details display more authoritative information
- CLI session naming bound to trusted path
Fixed
- MCP default version selection updated and then rolled back in patch release
- Content capture opt-out is now honored in tracing
- Subagent platform guards are enforced
- Elicitation is cancelled on incomplete CLI input
- Snowflake connections now require HTTPS
August 2026
3 releases: 1.46.0 → 1.48.0
August brought significant performance and usability improvements to Goose, including a redesigned agent loop, real-time usage tracking, and expanded provider support. The month focused on making the agent more efficient, transparent about costs, and compatible with more AI services.
Highlights
- Unrolled agent loop and cache-safe request assembly for better performance and cost transparency
- Per-message usage stats showing tokens, cost, time-to-first-token, and tokens per second
- Streaming shell output displays command results in real time as they run
- Five new declarative provider integrations including TrustedRouter, OpenCode Zen, Gondola, SayGM, and Lynkr
- Interactive git branch indicator in chat and recently used models quick access in footer
New
- Streaming shell output while commands execute
- Per-message usage statistics UI with tokens, cost, TTFT, and generation speed
- Per-message usage and cost tracking with derived session totals
- Markdown format option for session exports
- Resizable sidebar with drag handle and persistent width
- Interactive git branch indicator in chat bottom bar
- TrustedRouter declarative provider support
- OpenCode Zen, Gondola, SayGM, Lynkr, and PleumRouter as declarative OpenAI-compatible providers
Improved
- Cache-safe request assembly with append-only turn context and declared cache semantics
- Cache token tracking for accurate cost reporting
- Model picker in chat footer now shows recently used models
- Recipe parameter validation before execution
- Re-enabled minijinja builtins so documented recipe filters function correctly
- Concurrent subagent notifications now isolated in summon mode
- Explicit thinking disabled for adaptive Claude models
- Custom provider cost fields now drive cost tracking calculations
Fixed
- Handling for error code when context length is exceeded
- Z.ai GLM model updated from version 5.2 to 5.3
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