Thursday roundup: 29 Oct 2026

This release includes 0.78.0. Shopping now shows product cards and carousels, Buy now starts an order you approve, and the Bot tracks shipments afterwards. Shop Pay connects in the Vault's Payments tab. New templates start and cancel free trials, find unused subscriptions and watch renewal prices.

For builders, Bots can start cloud agents in a named custom mode and keep replying to them in it, Team Bots can be limited to only you, and managers can add logins to a Team Bot's own Vault so it signs in for the team.

Android's shared on-device runtime for custom models now runs GPU inference about 1.4x faster than the old GPU delegate, through the new CompiledModel API.

Because the runtime ships with Play services instead of inside your APK, Google says apps that switch come out about 8 MB smaller and pick up fixes automatically. There's an Android Studio LiteRT skill to help migrate.

A stable release that's mostly fixes: steadier terminal rendering and scrollback, your own ~/.gitconfig kept in shell and git environments, Ctrl+C and other termination signals passed through properly, and opt-in private network endpoints for MCP OAuth.

It also adds a banner saying the CLI isn't yet optimised for Gemini 4.

Claude Enterprise organisations get /v1/organizations/claude_tag/ endpoints, behind the experimental-claude-tag-2026-10-21 beta header, to read and change Claude Tag settings on Slack channels and workspaces. They also show which settings apply in a channel and where each one comes from, and attach Access bundles.

It needs an Admin API key with the read:claude_tag or write:claude_tag scope, and it isn't available to Claude Console organisations.