google-genai 2.18.0

v2.18.0

on Python PyPI

2.18.0 (2026-08-12)

Features

• Add interaction_status to LiveServerContent (66e224c)
• api: Make the deferred service tier publicly available on Vertex (e1f7c40)
• Enable json schema in FunctionDeclaration parser (62d50d6)
• Make speech_config a structured object. (cc0d42e)
• Support injecting httpx2 client. (012804d), refs #2680

Bug Fixes

• Improve AFC(automatic function calling) in chat including fixing bugs in AFC for generate_content_stream. also log warnings in generate_content, generate_content_stream and their async variants that AFC is meant to be used in chat experience, not directly in models module. (fe6118e)

Performance Improvements

• Build model validators on first use instead of at import (66bfe95), refs #2784
• Lazily import the interactions API to speed up import google.genai (89dcfe5)
• Stop importing the requests HTTP stack at module scope (3a44936)