chore(main): release 1.8.0

release-please[bot] · web-flow · commit e586679e800e · 2025-03-21T16:41:33.000Z
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # 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)
+* 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)
 
 
diff --git a/google/genai/version.py b/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
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/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"}

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