This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.
✓ No known CVEs patched in this version
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ReleasePort's take
Moderate signalGoose v1.34.0 delivers agent lifecycle management with CRUD operations, configurable hooks, and automatic plugin updates. The release includes critical bug fixes for message handling, recipe scheduling, and configuration state synchronization.
Why it matters: Agents CRUD operations enable production-ready lifecycle management with configurable hooks. Plugin auto-updating reduces overhead. Bug fixes resolve message loss and state sync issues. Test new capabilities in dev first.
Summary
AI summaryAgents now support CRUD operations, enhancing customizable agent behavior.
Changes in this release
| Type | Severity | Summary | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | Medium |
Hooks support for customizable agent behavior Hooks support for customizable agent behavior Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Agents CRUD operations Agents CRUD operations Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Projects as backend sources with system prompt injection Projects as backend sources with system prompt injection Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Auto-updating for plugins Auto-updating for plugins Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Linux Vulkan support for local inference Linux Vulkan support for local inference Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Provider-first onboarding flow Provider-first onboarding flow Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Skills in the chat composer Skills in the chat composer Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Mergeable configs Mergeable configs Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Windows CUDA release artifacts Windows CUDA release artifacts Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
goose-tui binary goose-tui binary Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Install plugins to ~/.agents/plugins Install plugins to ~/.agents/plugins Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Render MCP apps inline in goose2 Render MCP apps inline in goose2 Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
MCP Apps translate ACP capabilities into MCP initialization MCP Apps translate ACP capabilities into MCP initialization Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
goose2 support for custom providers goose2 support for custom providers Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Move goose2 provider catalog behind ACP layer Move goose2 provider catalog behind ACP layer Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Group consecutive tool calls into chain summary card Group consecutive tool calls into chain summary card Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
ACP streamable HTTP spec compliance ACP streamable HTTP spec compliance Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Performance | Medium |
Parallelize provider resolution and eagerly init SQLite pool Parallelize provider resolution and eagerly init SQLite pool Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: low |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
SQLite foreign key enforcement in session pool SQLite foreign key enforcement in session pool Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Queued message lost when clicking send now Queued message lost when clicking send now Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Unscheduling recipe no longer deletes them Unscheduling recipe no longer deletes them Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Synchronously reap ACP child to avoid SIGCHLD race Synchronously reap ACP child to avoid SIGCHLD race Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Handle ACP requests concurrently Handle ACP requests concurrently Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Prevent login-shell PATH probe from suspending startup Prevent login-shell PATH probe from suspending startup Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Gemini OAuth onboarding failure fixed Gemini OAuth onboarding failure fixed Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Deleted chat session no longer appears in sidebar Deleted chat session no longer appears in sidebar Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Model picker and session config stay in sync Model picker and session config stay in sync Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Preserve replay message timestamps Preserve replay message timestamps Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: high |
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| Refactor | Medium |
Remove threads layer use sessions directly for ACP Remove threads layer use sessions directly for ACP Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: low |
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| Refactor | Medium |
Replace artifact heuristics/regexes with protocol messages Replace artifact heuristics/regexes with protocol messages Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-21 Confidence: low |
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Full changelog
✨ Features
- Hooks support for customizable agent behavior #9093
- Agents CRUD operations #9084
- Projects as backend sources with system prompt injection #8739
- Auto-updating for plugins #9061
- Linux Vulkan support for local inference #9038
- ACP streamable HTTP spec compliance #9034
- Expose built-in skills through sources list ACP calls #9045
- Provider-first onboarding flow #9039
- Move goose2 provider catalog behind ACP layer #9030
- Group consecutive tool calls into one summarized chain card #8995
- Replace raw config and secret methods in ACP #9000
- goose2 support for custom providers in UI & ACP #8924
- Configurable Ollama host in goose2 #8912
- Update provider row after saving credentials #8914
- Google model inventory refresh support #8913
- Skills in the chat composer #8881
- Mergeable configs #8378
- MCP Apps: hydrate and replay app payloads in goose2 #8632
- MCP Apps: translate ACP host capabilities into MCP initialization #8623
- Windows CUDA release artifacts #8750
- goose2 compact settings modal headers #8950
- goose-tui binary #9089
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Insert tool pair summaries at chronological position in conversation #9087
- Enable SQLite foreign key enforcement in session pool #9121
- Deleted chat session still appears in sidebar list #8674
- Revert unexpected change from ui/goose2 work #9098
- Require extension_name on read_resource #8989
- Queued message lost when clicking send now #9074
- Keep model picker and session config in sync #9048
- Read prompted file parameters in recipes #8504
- Accept null tool_call arguments in OpenAI streaming chunks #9035
- Use python3 in developer extension instructions for macOS/Linux compatibility #8784
- Synchronously reap ACP child to avoid SIGCHLD race #9023
- goose2 small-window chat and settings layouts #9019
- Elicitation fixes #8999
- SACP notifies clients of generated session names #8983
- Unscheduling a recipe should not delete them #8978
- Seed provider handoff history in ACP #8941
- Respect goose2 interface density settings #8953
- Make goose2 respect accent color #8952
- Preserve replay message timestamps #8942
- goose2 window minimum sizing #8946
- Avoid transform-rasterized dialog text in goose2 #8937
- Keep renamed skills open in detail view #8935
- Gemini OAuth onboarding failure #8905
- Copy and content improvements in goose2 #8886
- Model picker stays usable during provider loading #8900
- Handle ACP requests concurrently #8781
- CRT linkage in Windows CUDA build #8987
- Exclude preprompt from session title generation #8793
- Prevent login-shell PATH probe from suspending goose on startup #8804
- Remove defaults yaml #8854
🔧 Improvements
- Keep thread tables + column #9156
- Refactor local inference around backends #9137
- Remove threads layer, use sessions directly for ACP #9078
- Install plugins to ~/.agents/plugins #9088
- Switch to official new rust-sdk for ACP #9062
- Remove attachment preamble in goose2 #9052
- goose2 UI state refactor (part 1) #9049
- Clean up types #9057
- Use native arm64 runners for Linux artifact builds #9075
- Redesign Extensions page, remove enable toggle, treat Extension Manager as core MCP enabler per session #8940
- Extensions page styling alignment #9003
- Replace artifact heuristics/regexes with protocol messages #8996
- Fold UI refactor review into code review skill #8982
- LM Studio declarative provider improvements #8973
- Remove artifacts dir handling #8945
- Install plugins #8949
- Render MCP apps inline in goose2 #8877
- Remove skill categories #9008
- goose2 distribution bundling #8911
- goose2 used ACP session id #8985
- Clean up goose2 settings headers #8951
- Break up acp/server.rs #8932
- goose2 skill refactor #8897
- Update patterns for pattern-based command injection #8546
- Polish sidebar navigation and project icons #8896
- Parallelize provider resolution and eagerly init SQLite pool #8899
- Update goose2 credential management behind provider-scoped ACP/core API #8887
- Deduplicate _goose/providers/list RPC call at startup #8873
- Agent provider to use explicit type states #8879
- Redesign skills library #8868
- Revert client-side autocompaction #9055
- Set LLAMA_STATIC_CRT for Windows CUDA #8901
- Disable spellcheck in model search #8889
📚 Documentation
- Blog: orchestrating with goose #9104
- Remove old goose bench documentation #9054
- Updated tunnel remote access documentation #9077
- Blog: findings with minimax and office QA benchmark #8984
- Align CODEOWNERS with pull request review rules in GOVERNANCE.md #9056
- Bring MAINTAINERS.md up to date #9053
- Improve AGENTS.md readability #8979
- Improve goose2 AGENTS.md #9028
- Add CLAUDE.mds to mirror AGENTS.mds #9029
- Blog: goose with peekaboo #8884
- Blog: Built-in Local Inference #8808
- Hide Windows CUDA download links until release #8874
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