Qwen Code releases v0.25.0: hosted agent approvals, failover/recovery, workspace-agent A2A collaboration (stable)

Why it matters

Key points

Qwen Code, the open-source coding agent from Alibaba's Qwen team, shipped stable release v0.25.0 on October 5, 2026 (09:44 UTC). It is a minor-version bump after the 0.24 series with roughly 160 changes, centered on the managed-agent runtime and workspace features: local workspace-agent collaboration plus A2A access and sharing; hosted tool approvals, durable permission actions, file history and undo, turn takeover and failover, workspace cold restore and offline recovery bundles; a private hosted MCP runtime and durable hooks; freeform input and concurrent Bash in Code Mode; Mem0 memory bundled with the CLI and model limits resolved from the models.dev catalog; and an IMAP/SMTP email channel.

Verifiable

GitHub Release: https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/releases/tag/v0.25.0 (full changelog v0.24.7...v0.25.0).

Our take

No new model or benchmark; this is agent-toolchain hardening. The direction matters: approvals, permissions, undo, failover and recovery landing together show Qwen Code moving from a local coding CLI toward a hosted, auditable, long-running agent runtime, the same enterprise ground Claude Code and Codex compete on. Limited impact on the capability curve, so it goes to Latest.