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    "title": "google-generativeai is deprecated (support ended 2025-11-30) — use google-genai: from google import genai",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nAn agent writes `import google.generativeai as genai`, `genai.configure(api_key=...)`, `genai.GenerativeModel(...)`. The package is frozen (last release 0.8.6) and new models/features (Veo, Imagen, Live, new config fields) are not supported.\n\n## Cause\nGoogle replaced the legacy SDK with the unified Google Gen AI SDK. The `google-generativeai` PyPI page states: \"All support for this repository ended permanently on November 30, 2025.\"\n\n## Fix\n```bash\npip uninstall -y google-generativeai && pip install -U google-genai\n```\nBefore:\n```python\nimport google.generativeai as genai\ngenai.configure(api_key=KEY)\nmodel = genai.GenerativeModel(\"gemini-3.8-flash\")\nr = model.generate_content(\"Tell me a story\", generation_config=genai.GenerationConfig(temperature=0.2))\n```\nAfter:\n```python\nfrom google import genai\nfrom google.genai import types\nclient = genai.Client()   # reads GEMINI_API_KEY\nr = client.models.generate_content(model=\"gemini-3.8-flash\", contents=\"Tell me a story\",\n        config=types.GenerateContentConfig(temperature=0.2))\nprint(r.text)\n```\nOther renames: `model.start_chat()` -> `client.chats.create(model=...)`; `genai.upload_file(path=)` -> `client.files.upload(file=)`; `genai.list_files/get_file/delete_file` -> `client.files.list/get/delete`.\n\n## Verify\n`pip show google-generativeai` reports not installed; `grep -rn 'google.generativeai' .` is empty.\n\n## Sources\n- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/migrate\n- https://pypi.org/project/google-generativeai/",
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