Google published Gemini CLI 0.68.0 as GitHub Release v0.68.0. The GitHub Release published_at is 2026-11-10T21:17:07Z, which is 2026-11-11 05:17:07 Asia/Shanghai. On npm, the @google/gemini-cli dist-tag latest became 0.68.0 at time["0.68.0"] 2026-11-10T21:22:49.277Z, which is 2026-11-11 05:22:49.277 Asia/Shanghai. This is a CLI stable upgrade, not a new model release. The previous stable short brief on this site is Gemini CLI 0.67.0 Adds Models Command and IDE Sandbox Bridge.

What landed in 0.68.0

The official What's Changed record is the item list on the GitHub Release for v0.68.0. That Release also links a Full Changelog compare from v0.67.0 to v0.68.0. The official item list is the Release What's Changed, not the compare commit list.

The visible changes include:

  • An extension validation command, plus evaluation tests (#29980).
  • A 429 rate-limit cool-down and countdown in the loading indicator (#30012). Earlier notes on this error message are in Gemini CLI Says "429 Resource Exhausted"? Here's What Google's Docs Say and What to Try.
  • The selected model is kept after a transient fallback, cancel, or rewind (#30059).
  • Windows and PowerShell fixes: isWithinRoot is case-insensitive on Windows (#29999), and a PowerShell CIM fallback is used for Windows IDE process lookup (#30006).

The same Release also lists documentation updates, changelog-robot entries, and other internal fixes. One fix title mentions recognizing dotted Gemini 3 models in supportsMultimodalFunctionResponse (#29982). That line is a bug-fix title only, not a Gemini 3 model launch. The remaining items are left as Release entries.

Preview is a separate channel

In the same window, npm preview points at 0.69.0-preview.0. The GitHub Release for v0.69.0-preview.0 has published_at 2026-11-10T21:05:08Z, which is 2026-11-11 05:05:08 Asia/Shanghai. On npm, time["0.69.0-preview.0"] is 2026-11-10T21:11:43.097Z, which is 2026-11-11 05:11:43.097 Asia/Shanghai. That preview cut is a separate channel. It is not latest, and it is not this stable 0.68.0 release.