Goose v1.49.0 release notes

✨ 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

🐛 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

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