2.8.0 (2026-11-10)
Features
- Add service_account parameter to Model Garden deploy methods. (8779d73)
- GenAI SDK client(evals) - Add StepBasedLLMMetric for multi-step LLM-judge metrics over agent traces. (954c90d)
- GenAI SDK client(evals) - Support StepBasedLLMMetric in create_evaluation_metric. (84df3a7)
- Support
git_sourceinclient.runtimesfor deploying from public Git repositories (affc088) - Update discovery doc (720b112)
Bug Fixes
- Cap sentencepiece below 0.2.3 in the tokenization extras (bb5ff02)
- Fail open on any error resolving the project ID in the ADK framework. (2ec72e8)
- GenAI Client(evals) - Handle agent traces that end without a text event in run_inference (d62419a)
- Warn when the pipeline output bucket is not owned by the project, and add
aiplatform.init(enforce_bucket_ownership=True)to raise an error instead (27ee0dc)