python-genai

1.74.0 (2026-04-29)

Features

• [Interactions] Add FileCitation.{custom_metadata,media_id,page_number} (aed41ec)
• Add output_info to BatchJob (7b77ab8)
• Add gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview model to options (8bdc1c3)
• Add ImageResizeMode for GenerateVideos (317d2af)
• Add new Gemini Deep Research agent models (16fffbd)
• Add one_of support to JSONSchema for Agent Platform (8c00c52)
• Add Vertex Dataset input and output options for batch jobs (d880f92)
• interaction-api: Add grounding tool usage breakdown to Interaction Usage. (b24fb5a)
• Introduce enterprise to Client constructor and GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_ENTERPRISE (693fd9a)
• Replace the more ambiguous rate field with sample_rate. (88d9b4a)

Bug Fixes

• Catch google-auth wrapped errors (48ac850)
• Removing Python 3.9 support due to EOL (8bc2b10)
• retry: Retry on httpx.TimeoutException with HttpRetryOptions (#2345) (0598bab)
• Streaming method doesn't handle multi-line SSE (f8a2e7e)
• Typing in AsyncClient.__aexit__, __exit__. (a74dc65)

Documentation

• Add instruction for custom endpoint (dd79904)
• Fix broken link for rate limits (d22ea99)
• Regenerate docs for 1.73.1 (2fb714b)
• Remove duplicate line in genai client docstring. (b1c6026)
• Replace Vertex AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (7c1ecd5)
• Update doc string to replace Vertex AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, update method error message to replace Vertex AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (previously known as Vertex AI), update converter error message to replace Vertex AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (413f0f9)
• Update Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform home page url (b02cb95)
• Update README.md with correct Pydantic link (fa97cc6)
• Update README.md with correct Pydantic link (fa97cc6)

1.73.1 (2026-04-14)

Bug Fixes

• Refactor Webhook types in GenAI SDKs for easier useage (3f36ca1)
• Rename webhooks.retrieve to webhooks.get. (649f4b0)

Documentation

• Update python docs for 1.73.0 (acd3767)

1.73.0 (2026-04-13)

[!CAUTION] CRITICAL WARNING: Do not use this version if you are implementing or relying on webhooks. This release contains known issues regarding webhook sdk. Please use v1.73.1 or later.

Features

• Add DeepResearchAgentConfig fields (ec8ca87)
• Add webhook and webhookConfig for js and python sdk (ccec350)
• Add webhook_config to batches.create() and models.generate_videos() (772d2fc)
• Wire the webhook into python and js client. (841bf22)

Bug Fixes

• Refine Pyink blank line insertion logic and fix range-based formatting regressions. (b91bda5)

Documentation

• Update python docs for 1.72.0 (68ed088)

1.72.0 (2026-04-09)

Features

• Add "eu" as a supported service location for Vertex AI platform. (888a731)
• Add Live Avatar new fields (ad1777e)
• Add support for new audio MIME types: opus, alaw, and mulaw (74eb373)
• Add the delete method for the Agent Engine Task Store Service (d821082)

Documentation

• Update python docs for 1.71.0 (e82f9fc)

1.71.0 (2026-04-08)

Features

• Introduce TYPE_L16 audio content and optional fields. (07e932f)

Documentation

• Remove deprecated product recontext model samples from docstrings (aca7dcf)

1.70.0 (2026-03-31)

Features

• Support dedicated TextAnnotationDelta for streaming tool responses (5c820f2)

Bug Fixes

• Fix service_tier enums. (855e431)

1.69.0 (2026-03-27)

Features

• Add consent_audio and voice_consent_signature and AsyncSession.setup_complete (69a02c4)
• Add custom_metadata to FileSearchResult. (aed1559)
• Add labels field to Veo configs (208a173)
• Add mime type for Audio content (674b837)
• Add model_status to GenerateContentResponse (Gemini API only) (ce86f2b)
• Add part_metadata in Part (Gemini API only) (ce86f2b)
• Add service tier for interactions. (b07002e)
• Add service tier to GenerateContent. (12b404b)
• Add support for more image and audio MIME types in Interactions content (8ec977c)
• Add supported models to the ModelOptions (1ccad7b)
• Autoenable mTLS in environment with bound token (Agent Engine with AgentAuthority) through google-auth migration (except custom client args, custom client or custom ClientSession) (a95d08a)
• genai: Add TURN_INCLUDES_AUDIO_ACTIVITY_AND_ALL_VIDEO to TurnCoverage (1ba8e2e)
• Support hyperparameters in distillation tuning (ad38e3a)
• Support rendered_parts in GroundingSupport (ce86f2b)

Bug Fixes

• Support us region routing (8e3e00c)

Documentation

• Update python docs for 1.68. (07ae1b1)

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 https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/pull/2131 (9a4fd39)
• Treat attempts=0 as attempts=1 in retry options to ensure no retries (2856c0a)

Documentation

• Regenerate docs for 1.67.0 (ff7469a)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

1.62.0 (2026-02-04)

Features

Bug Fixes

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

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)

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)

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)

1.58.0 (2026-01-14)

Features

• Add FileSearchCallContent to Interactions (a882dea)
• Add ImageConfig to GenerationConfig for image generation in Interactions (b61163f)
• Support passing the custom aiohttp.ClientSession through HttpOptions.aiohttp_client (750648f), closes #1662
• Voice activity support (b7b1c2e)

Bug Fixes

• Serialize Pillow images losslessly by default (8d7c74d)

Documentation

• Regenerate docs for 1.57.0 (65018b6)

1.57.0 (2026-01-07)

Features

• [Python] add RegisterFiles so gcs files can be used with genai. (68fa075)
• Add gemini-3-pro-preview support for local tokenizer (48f8256)
• Add PersonGeneration to ImageConfig for Vertex Gempix (c66e0ce)

Bug Fixes

• Remove validation for empty text parts on Chat, this will support keeping the history in chat when the API yields back such a part. (215c852)

Documentation

• Regenerate docs for 1.56.0 (b4c063e)
• Update codegen_instructions.md for Gemini 3 Flash (22500b5)
• Update Virtual Try-On model id in samples and docstrings (5bf4d62)

1.56.0 (2025-12-16)

Features

• Add minimal and medium thinking levels. (96d644c)
• Add support for Struct in ToolResult Content. (8fd4886)
• Add ultra high resolution to the media resolution in Parts. (356c320)
• Add ULTRA_HIGH MediaResolution and new ThinkingLevel enums (336b823)
• Define and use DocumentMimeType for DocumentContent (dc7f00f)
• Support multi speaker for Vertex AI (ecb00c2)

Bug Fixes

• Api version handling for interactions. (436ca2e)

Documentation

• Add documentation for the new Interactions API (Preview). (e28a69c)
• Update and restructure codegen_instructions (00422de)
• Update docs for 1.55 (1cc43e7)