chore(main): release 1.8.0

Author: release-please[bot]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.8.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/compare/v1.7.0...v1.8.0) (2025-03-21)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add IMAGE_SAFTY enum value to FinishReason ([3a65fb0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/3a65fb0e841b183d42023aef37e22207cdc9829f))
+* **chats:** Allow user to create chat session with list of ContentDict ([43c5379](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/43c5379aa0a6da1f742ab0eada72cbff0b2bed40)), closes [#467](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/issues/467)
+* Save prompt safety attributes in dedicated field for generate_images ([e5bbb0e](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/e5bbb0e6b77f12e7e6877ae0e976fda3f8beb604))
+* Support new UsageMetadata fields ([122cdc8](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/122cdc86f1c7381f04f6c8ab3ea86409fcb85661))
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Log warning to users that Part.from_video_metadata will be deprecated. ([2d12f54](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/2d12f544bc3f8d1e2720855f0fe3519881baaeb0))
+
 ## [1.7.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0) (2025-03-18)
 
 

google/genai/version.py

@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-__version__ = '1.7.0' # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = '1.8.0' # x-release-please-version

pyproject.toml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]
 
 [project]
 name = "google-genai"
-version = "1.7.0"
+version = "1.8.0"
 description = "GenAI Python SDK"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = {text = "Apache-2.0"}