Release 0.5.3

Last updated on October 20, 2026

Overview

AGS CLI 0.5.3 is a patch release on top of 0.5.2. Each item below is tagged with the area it affects. Both items in this release affect [Extend].

Scripts that call ags extend tunnel keep working in this release, unless they pass --pod-name. To upgrade from 0.5.1 or 0.5.2, run ags update --install.

Highlights

[Extend] The database tunnel command has a new name

ags extend tunnel is renamed to ags extend database-tunnel. The new name says what the command connects to: an Extend database, which can be NoSQL, SQL, or Key Value Store.

ags extend database-tunnel -r my-database -p 27017 --namespace my-game

The command opens a port on localhost and forwards it to the database. It keeps running until you press Ctrl+C. It has two required flags:

• --resource-name (-r): the Resource Name shown on the database's page in the Admin Portal.
• --local-port (-p): the port on localhost that your database client connects to.

These short flags are the same as in extend-helper-cli.

The old name still works in 0.5.3. ags extend tunnel runs the same command, but it no longer appears in ags extend --help. It will be removed in a later release, so use ags extend database-tunnel in your scripts.

--pod-name is no longer a flag on this command. A database tunnel does not use a pod name, so the flag never changed what the command did. If a script passes --pod-name, remove the flag. Otherwise the command stops with the error Unexpected argument '--pod-name' found.

If you are moving from extend-helper-cli, see Migrate from extend-helper-cli.

Improvements

• [Extend] ags extend --help describes its commands with the terms that the Extend documentation uses: environment variables and secrets, Extend App UI, Extend app container registry, Remote Debug, and container logs. Each shortcut row still shows the ags csm command that the shortcut forwards to.

Full release notes

See the 0.5.3 release on GitHub for the complete list of changes.