v1.68.0

1.68.0 (2026-03-17)

Breaking changes

• [Interactions] Breaking change to Interactions API to refactor TextContent annotations to use specific citation types (6c3379f)
• [Interactions] Breaking change for Interactions, rename ContentDelta unions. (1b03909)
• [Interactions] Breaking change to Interactions API to rename rendered_content to search_suggestions (0e21c4e)

Features

• [Interactions] Add and update 'signature' fields for tool call/result content types. (d896373)
• [Interactions] Support Google Maps in Interactions (68f247c)
• Support include_server_side_tool_invocations for genai. (546440c)

Bug Fixes

• deps: Correct typing-extensions constraint (1.67 Issue)[https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/releases/tag/v1.67.0] (9a4fd39)
• Python 3.10-3.11 breakage caused by #2131 (9a4fd39)
• Treat attempts=0 as attempts=1 in retry options to ensure no retries (2856c0a)

Documentation

• Regenerate docs for 1.67.0 (ff7469a)

v1.67.0

1.67.0 (2026-03-12)

Caution

Known Issue:
This release contains a bug where the typing-extensions lower bound is set too low, which causes the SDK to break in some environments.

Recommended Actions:

• Fall back to 1.66.0: If you do not immediately need the new features in 1.67.0, we recommend sticking with the previous stable version:
  pip install google-genai==1.66.0
• Manual Fix: If you must use 1.67.0, you can resolve the issue by manually upgrading typing-extensions:
  pip install "typing-extensions>=4.14.0"

Features

• Add inference_generation_config to EvaluationConfig for Tuning (1fdb4b8)
• Add live history_config with initial_history_in_client_content (a80babd)
• Add support for referencing registered metrics by resource name in evaluation run API (41b348e)
• Enable language code for audio transcription config in Live API for Vertex AI (c04be0d)

Bug Fixes

• Forward http_options in async_request_streamed to enable retry support (8b3be87)
• Forward http_options in async_request_streamed to enable retry support (#2097) (8b10efb)

v1.66.0

1.66.0 (2026-03-03)

Features

• Add gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview model (dd52cc2)
• Support signature for all Interaction tool types (abb388e)
• Update data types from discovery doc. (15666c0)

v1.65.0

1.65.0 (2026-02-26)

Features

• Add gemini-3.1-pro-preview to list of models in Interactions (fe86870)
• Add Image Grounding support to GoogleSearch tool (0035182)
• Enable server side MCP and disable all other AFC when server side MCP is configured. (4dd7b16)
• Support more image sizes and resolutions (8b2a4e0)

Bug Fixes

• Change interactions media mime type to enum (breaking change for experimental feature) (e0f3378)
• Handle non-list response_stream in HttpResponse.json property (006042d)
• Handle non-list response_stream in HttpResponse.json property (#1903) (61aec34)
• Make aiohttp an optional dependency, bump aiohttp version upperbound, and ensure HttpOptions.async_client_args propagates to custom aiohttp.ClientSession request args for proxy etc. (b28d144), closes #2090 #2051 #1950

Documentation

• Regenerate docs for 1.64.0 (a023141)
• Update README and codegen_instructions for structured outputs (4d5a978)

v1.64.0

1.64.0 (2026-02-18)

Features

• Add UnifiedMetric support to Vertex Tuning evaluation config (9a9908a)
• Support multimodal embedding for Gemini Embedding 2.0 and support MaaS models in Models.embed_content() (Vertex AI API) (af40cc6)

v1.63.0

1.63.0 (2026-02-11)

Features

• Add INCOMPLETE status to Interaction. (1a84605)
• Support encryption_spec in tuning job creation configuration for GenAI SDK (057d6f0)

Bug Fixes

• Base_url and global location parsing (2c40555)
• Remove build warning due to extra comma: assertion on a tuple is always true (1cc2c2d)
• Remove debug print statement. (60c0a2f)
• Remove unused import of websockets (3b82b5f)

Documentation

• Add docstrings to C# and Python SDK Operations methods. (f2e85a3)
• Regenerate docs for 1.62.0 (455ec26)

v1.62.0

1.62.0 (2026-02-04)

Features

Bug Fixes

• Add error handling for live and live music APIs (1148276), closes #668

v1.61.0

1.61.0 (2026-01-30)

Features

• Add include_input query parameter to Get Interaction endpoint. (a0240d9)
• Add registerFiles for you can use gcs files with mldev. (965395b)
• Support distillation tuning (9e49d71)
• Support OSS Tuning in GenAI SDK (51748a7)

Bug Fixes

• Add metadata in batch inlined response (08c47aa)

v1.60.0

1.60.0 (2026-01-21)

Features

• Add ModelArmorConfig support for prompt and response sanitization via the Model Armor service (8d1091a)

Documentation

• Regenerate docs for 1.59.0 (351e490)
• Update docs to include interactions and file_search_stores module (a21841c)

v1.59.0

1.59.0 (2026-01-15)

Features

• Set the environment variable GOOGLE_API_PREVENT_AGENT_TOKEN_SHARING_FOR_GCP_SERVICES to 'false' within BaseApiClient to disable bound token sharing. (79ac880)
• Support 4:5 and 5:4 aspect ratio in Interactions (1ddd9f1)

Documentation

• Regenerate docs for 1.58.0 (39a8b06)