v0.4.0 - Function calling, Semantic retriever, AQA, and more

What's new

Features

• Update notebook magics to work with Gemini by @markmcd in #109
• Semantic retriever by @shilpakancharla in #168
• Attributed question answering (genai.generate_answer) by @shilpakancharla in #169
• Automatic function calling. by @MarkDaoust in #201

   model = genai.GenerativeModel(..., tools=[my_function])
   chat = model.start_chat(enable_automatic_function_calling=True)
  

• Request options (timeouts, retry, ...) by @aidoskanapyanov in #204

  Model.generate_content(..., 
      request_options={'timeout': 100, 'retry': google.api_core.retry.Retry()})
  

• Permissions module by @mayureshagashe2105 in #205

More updates

• Lock google-auth version to fix #114 by @yihong0618 in #115
• Update code in README.md and generate_content documentation by @Hamza-nabil in #149
• Make error message more readable by @ftnext in #163
• Python 3.12 support. by @MarkDaoust in #165
• Rename model defaults to use gemini-pro by @markmcd in #175
• Add a more explicit error when no parts are returned by @markmcd in #180
• Add embed_content_async implementation by @mayureshagashe2105 in #189
• Link embed_content reference page to model details page by @kaycebasques in #194
• Implement __repr__ for GenerateContentResponse and ChatSession by @aidoskanapyanov in #202
• Fixed #166. Thanks @piresramon. by @MarkDaoust in #208

New Contributors

• @yihong0618 made their first contribution in #115
• @ftnext made their first contribution in #163
• @mayureshagashe2105 made their first contribution in #189
• @kaycebasques made their first contribution in #194
• @aidoskanapyanov made their first contribution in #202

Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.4.0