Gemini API Release Notes

• Launched support for the Computer Use tool in gemini-3-pro-preview and gemini-3-flash-preview.

Deprecation announcement

The following models will be shut down March 31, 2026:

• gemini-2.0-flash
• gemini-2.0-flash-001
• gemini-2.0-flash-lite
• gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001

Changed the latest aliases

• gemini-pro-latest switched to gemini-3-pro-preview
• gemini-flash-latest switched to gemini-3-flash-preview

Deprecation announcement

• The following models will be shut down February 17, 2026:

  • gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-25
  • imagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06
  • imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-preview-06-06

• The gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview has been shut down.

• The text-embedding-004 model has been shut down.

• Added 4k output resolutions for Veo and more support for portrait videos in all resolutions.

• Launched model lifecycle feature. Some models will now specify the lifecycle stage and deprecation timeline. See the following documentation for more information:

  • Model stages

• Launched support for Cloud Storage buckets and any public and private DB pre-signed URL as data input source for the Gemini API. The file size limit has also increased from 20MB to 100MB. For details, see File input methods guide.

Breaking Changes

• Introduced a breaking change to the Interactions API public preview in v1beta. The total_reasoning_tokens field has been renamed to total_thought_tokens to better align with the concept of "thoughts" in thinking models.

• Launched Gemini 3 Flash Preview, gemini-3-flash-preview, delivering fast frontier-class performance that rivals larger models at a fraction of the cost. With upgraded visual and spatial reasoning, and agentic coding capabilities. Read the documentation on some new features, including:
  • Multimodal function responses
  • Code execution with images