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1.144.0 (2026-03-31)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Breaking change in experimental methods: create_from_bigquery and update_multimodal_dataset no longer automatically prepend a missing bq:// prefix for BigQuery URIs. When using the new function MultimodalDataset.set_bigquery_uri the prefix will still be added if needed.

Features

• Add metadata_filter usage to all retrieval and generator methods in rag_retrieval.py (841c597)
• Add container_spec to Reasoning Engine public protos (9a0eefb)
• Add container_spec to Reasoning Engine public protos (9a0eefb)
• Add support for container_spec in AgentEngines (da663c0)
• GenAI SDK client(multimodal) - Add metadata helpers to MultimodalDataset. (e164b19)
• Publish client batch config schema (9a0eefb)
• Refactor evaluation instance building and update LLM metric handler (7a3b436)
• Update the interface for custom code execution metric while maintaining remote_custom_function support for backward compatibility (f7733ec)

Bug Fixes

• Auto-created GCS staging bucket names are less predictable (1a33ad9)
• GenAI SDK client(multimodal) - Replace blocking calls in create_from_pandas with async versions. (2767273)
• Introduce timeout for outgoing A2A requests from AgentEngine (78525d2)
• Relax the requirement to specify class_methods if image_spec/container_spec is provided (6f7b12c)
• Standardize on the app_name in AdkApp (ee9fbe1)

Documentation

• Update API common type documentation (9a0eefb)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Release 1.144.0 (2ad586d)

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