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Gemini upgrades break working setups

Outages and change3 posts from 3 people3d active+00 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (fading)

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Posts per day3 posts, Aug 31 to Sep 25

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Rootless podman sandbox hit EACCES because --userns=keep-id is not set...the host user can't modify. In my case, that eventually shows up as `node-gyp` being unable to remove the `build` directory. ### What did you expect to happen? If the sandbox is using rootless podman and UID/GID mapping is enabled, I would expect the CLI to handle the user...google-gemini/gemini-cli21vedanshSep 1510 days ago
ACP marks edits to existing empty files as additions### What happened? In ACP mode, Gemini CLI labels an edit to an existing empty file as a file addition in the diff metadata. Both the permission-preview path and the completed tool-result path choose the diff kind by checking whether `originalContent` is falsy. For an existing...google-gemini/gemini-cliXuxyyySep 72 weeks ago
isEmpty misclassifies BOM-encoded whitespace-only plan files as non-empty### What happened? `validatePlanContent()` accepts a whitespace-only plan file when the file is encoded as UTF-16 with a BOM. On current `main`, `isEmpty()` detects and removes the BOM but then always decodes the sampled bytes with UTF-8. UTF-16 whitespace bytes therefore leave...google-gemini/gemini-cliHughhhhcoderAug 313 weeks ago

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3 posts from 3 people in 1 place, about 1 a week over 16 days. Mostly on google-gemini/gemini-cli. Tools named alongside: GitHub, Docker, npm.

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Posts that state a pain and match the "breaking-changes" rule about Gemini. First post Aug 31, 2026, latest Sep 15, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

History

  • 2026-09-25 Added: Gemini upgrades break working setups (3 posts)

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