From 8f9e316e24d5cec3c640a4ac8e88d833d44ad6e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:38:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release 2.17.0

---
 .release-please-manifest.json | 2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                  | 9 +++++++++
 package-lock.json             | 4 ++--
 package.json                  | 2 +-
 src/_api_client.ts            | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 7731f20ec8..9a61761c4c 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "2.16.0"
+  ".": "2.17.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cf76173402..b2d7b6e843 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 
 
 
+## [2.17.0](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/compare/v2.16.0...v2.17.0) (2026-08-12)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add interaction_status to LiveServerContent ([4489991](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/commit/4489991a7c40b22dff75348748048b0b14ac687e))
+* **api:** make the deferred service tier publicly available on Vertex ([9dafee9](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/commit/9dafee9cd0f6089221bce5269dbd53fe7fa69806))
+* Make speech_config a structured object. ([9c90665](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/commit/9c9066594a57bda7ee417d79f8ef15c8ed0b333d))
+
 ## [2.16.0](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/compare/v2.15.0...v2.16.0) (2026-08-06)
 
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index d7de6bfcfe..fdf615df6f 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@google/genai",
-  "version": "2.16.0",
+  "version": "2.17.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@google/genai",
-      "version": "2.16.0",
+      "version": "2.17.0",
       "hasInstallScript": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index afbd342efd..55b7ba3d76 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@google/genai",
-  "version": "2.16.0",
+  "version": "2.17.0",
   "description": "",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "dist/node/index.mjs",
diff --git a/src/_api_client.ts b/src/_api_client.ts
index aca3515df3..54fb52bb8d 100644
--- a/src/_api_client.ts
+++ b/src/_api_client.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const CONTENT_TYPE_HEADER = 'Content-Type';
 const SERVER_TIMEOUT_HEADER = 'X-Server-Timeout';
 const USER_AGENT_HEADER = 'User-Agent';
 export const GOOGLE_API_CLIENT_HEADER = 'x-goog-api-client';
-export const SDK_VERSION = '2.16.0'; // x-release-please-version
+export const SDK_VERSION = '2.17.0'; // x-release-please-version
 const LIBRARY_LABEL = `google-genai-sdk/${SDK_VERSION}`;
 const VERTEX_AI_API_DEFAULT_VERSION = 'v1beta1';
 const GOOGLE_AI_API_DEFAULT_VERSION = 'v1beta';