1.164.0 (2026-08-12)
Features
- Add build configuration support to Vertex AI Reasoning Engine (e20c003)
- Add encryption_spec (CMEK) support to EvaluationMetric SDK. (6dd3179)
- Add encryption_spec (CMEK) support to EvaluationRun SDK (50a43af)
- Add encryption_spec (CMEK) support to EvaluationSet resource (c2244f9)
- Add endpoint field to BatchPredictionJob for bring-your-own-endpoint batch prediction (19144a4)
- Add sandbox templates and snapshots submodules to the Vertex AI GenAI SDK for Java. (f7e3a70)
- Add Tool.ExaAiSearch to Vertex AI v1 (19144a4)
- Add Tool.ExaAiSearch to Vertex AI v1beta1 (19144a4)
- Allow users to configure max wait time for prompt management queries for Python and JS (ad63bfe)
- Allow users to search for spaces without requiring admin privileges (19144a4)
- Forward per-request labels to RunConfig in streaming_agent_run_with_events (f8eb68c)
- GenAI Client(evals) - async auto-create EvaluationExperiment parity (e689f0e)
- GenAI Client(evals) - auto-create EvaluationExperiment in create_evaluation_run (eb75e14)
- GenAI Client(evals) - Pin SDK predefined metrics to latest Gemini 3.5 Flash versions by default (f5d94b4)
- GenAI Client(evals) - Support show() for EvaluationDataset built from eval_cases (5b1a0aa)
- Support Endpoints module for OpenModel prediction, and .get/undeploy/delete (8848353)
- Update Compute v1 to revision 20260722 (19144a4)
Bug Fixes
- Add aiohttp to ADK extra requirements. (390f2d1)
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to v2.75.0 (19144a4)
- Enable automatic session creation in ADK template. (f343270)
- GenAI Client(evals) - skip agent config fetch when agent and client locations differ (8b43add)
- Import
iam_credentials_v1lazily in the sandboxes module. (2a18bff) - Persist the AgentCard on Agent Engine update() (5d5a1ca), refs #7064
- Remove the
google-cloud-iamdependency from theagent_enginesextra. (25deb44) - Update generator configuration and SDK bindings for Agent Engine Session update calls to return Session directly. (2702857)
Documentation
- A comment for field
order_byin message.google.chat.v1.SearchSpacesRequestis changed (19144a4) - A comment for field
queryin message.google.chat.v1.SearchSpacesRequestis changed (19144a4) - A comment for field
spacesin message.google.chat.v1.SearchSpacesResponseis changed (19144a4) - A comment for field
use_admin_accessin message.google.chat.v1.SearchSpacesRequestis changed (19144a4) - A comment for method
SearchSpacesin serviceChatServiceis changed (19144a4) - Communicate on upcoming updates in the next major version (c64b25f)
- Communicate on upcoming updates in the next major version (76b9616)
- Update copyright year (19144a4)
- Update various comments (19144a4)