●2.5ONLY — From the September 18 changelog: access to the 2.5 models is now limited to people who have actively used them. They are not deprecated and the API keeps serving them, while new projects are pointed at 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash●3.8LIVE — Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking went GA on September 15. Both are audio-to-audio models for the Live API, and the second keeps reasoning in the background during the call●09/30 — gemini-omni-flash-preview shuts down on September 30, seven days away. Its successor, gemini-omni-1.1-flash, went GA on August 27●ONCE — A report that "allow for this session" only lasts one call when the command contains a path has drawn 159 comments. The question underneath is how approvals should be scoped at all●NEW — When a function call comes back as plain text, suspect the property names in your tool declaration first●HISTORY — Writing just three things outside the tool — what you settled on, the instructions you used, and why you redid something — keeps past work from disappearing with a model●2.5ONLY — From the September 18 changelog: access to the 2.5 models is now limited to people who have actively used them. They are not deprecated and the API keeps serving them, while new projects are pointed at 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash●3.8LIVE — Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking went GA on September 15. Both are audio-to-audio models for the Live API, and the second keeps reasoning in the background during the call●09/30 — gemini-omni-flash-preview shuts down on September 30, seven days away. Its successor, gemini-omni-1.1-flash, went GA on August 27●ONCE — A report that "allow for this session" only lasts one call when the command contains a path has drawn 159 comments. The question underneath is how approvals should be scoped at all●NEW — When a function call comes back as plain text, suspect the property names in your tool declaration first●HISTORY — Writing just three things outside the tool — what you settled on, the instructions you used, and why you redid something — keeps past work from disappearing with a model