chore(main): release 1.68.0 (#2157)

* chore(main): release 1.68.0

* Update CHANGELOG.md

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Co-authored-by: release-please[bot] <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mark Daoust <markdaoust@google.com>

Author: release-please[bot]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,31 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.68.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/compare/v1.67.0...v1.68.0) (2026-03-17)
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+* [Interactions] Breaking change to Interactions API to refactor TextContent annotations to use specific citation types ([6c3379f](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/6c3379faa5e533d4146eee1b3c88ed80bbff46ce))
+* [Interactions] Breaking change for Interactions, rename ContentDelta unions. ([1b03909](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/1b03909ac8367205a2f0dd46847a0f6d36fb62fd))
+* [Interactions] Breaking change to Interactions API to rename rendered_content to search_suggestions ([0e21c4e](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/0e21c4ef3234fe195793711b8eb90354e154339f))
+
+
+### Features
+
+* [Interactions] Add and update 'signature' fields for tool call/result content types. ([d896373](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/d89637383f2c2ca28bef22f65dfbe56cd1f878cc))
+* [Interactions] Support Google Maps in Interactions ([68f247c](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/68f247c04af99915b946f04806f3b0a0543180fa))
+* Support include_server_side_tool_invocations for genai. ([546440c](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/546440c9f56118c8d27005f2d5b935603e50454e))
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **deps:** Correct typing-extensions constraint (1.67 Issue)[https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/releases/tag/v1.67.0] ([9a4fd39](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/9a4fd3983ac093fd9e197099ab970bd89a5a6a56))
+* Python 3.10-3.11 breakage caused by https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/pull/2131 ([9a4fd39](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/9a4fd3983ac093fd9e197099ab970bd89a5a6a56))
+* Treat `attempts=0` as `attempts=1` in retry options to ensure no retries ([2856c0a](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/2856c0ac76eb51b9171a6bd1626b5f6e63bf4a31))
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Regenerate docs for 1.67.0 ([ff7469a](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/ff7469a99a931b8415f214c8f711fc4e93422f09))
+
 ## [1.67.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/compare/v1.66.0...v1.67.0) (2026-03-12)
 
 

google/genai/version.py

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 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-__version__ = '1.67.0' # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = '1.68.0' # x-release-please-version

pyproject.toml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "twine>=6.1.0", "packaging>=24.2", "pkginfo>=
 
 [project]
 name = "google-genai"
-version = "1.67.0"
+version = "1.68.0"
 description = "GenAI Python SDK"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "Apache-2.0"