v1.8.0

1.8.0 (2025-03-26)

Features

• Add engine to VertexAISearch (21f0394)
• Add IMAGE_SAFTY enum value to FinishReason (3a65fb0)
• Add MediaModalities for ModalityTokenCount (fb2509c)
• Add Veo 2 generate_videos support in Go SDK (55b2923)
• Allow title property to be sent to Gemini API. Gemini API now supports the title property, so it's ok to pass this onto both Vertex and Gemini API. (f2f92a7)
• chats: Allow user to create chat session with list of ContentDict (43c5379), closes #467
• Move set event loop into try except logic when setting auth lock (d04b6a6)
• Save prompt safety attributes in dedicated field for generate_images (e5bbb0e)
• Support new UsageMetadata fields (122cdc8)

Bug Fixes

• Improve logging for response.parsed (fixes #455) (64012dd)
• Schema transformer logic fix. (f64bcba)
• Set event loop before asyncio.Lock() to ensure threading safety (be2d9c6)
• Surface complete error details from backend (38f5beb)
• chats: Raise error when types.Content is passed to send_message() to correctly adhere to type annotation. To migrate code previously passing content = types.Content(...) to send_message(), pass content.parts instead.(7fb2c7e)

Documentation

• Log warning to users that Part.from_video_metadata will be deprecated. (2d12f54)