chore(main): release 2.1.0 (#2410)

* chore(main): release 2.1.0

* Update CHANGELOG.md

* 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 +1,20 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [2.1.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/compare/v2.0.1...v2.1.0) (2026-05-12)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add gemini-3.1-flash-lite to model options ([2d5e0fa](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/2d5e0fad56e323cfbd16728655eb1ede8e6625f5))
+* Add parameters to video response_format. ([4e9d68d](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/4e9d68d027588d1ff984f61554086f8c7f186c7d))
+* Introduce Server Side tools deltas ([97d6fe5](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/97d6fe57959535107f74db06b7a316f1b5bb5d8a))
+* Support Blocking FunctionCall in Live API in AgentPlatform (Vertex) ([955bca6](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/955bca67cee1a74c91fb5963533beeba8125018d))
+* Add support for vertex-lyria models lyria-3-pro-preview & lyria-3-clip-preview ([1bc0536](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/1bc05364fc9848a6771bcb02a9f0969745707262))
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* Steps is not optional ([9ea9633](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/9ea9633906499883064f029d448546f2d3bf95be))
+
 ## [2.0.1](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/compare/v2.0.0...v2.0.1) (2026-05-09)
 
 

google/genai/version.py

@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-__version__ = '2.0.1' # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = '2.1.0' # 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 = "2.0.1"
+version = "2.1.0"
 description = "GenAI Python SDK"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "Apache-2.0"