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OCT 2 — gemini-2.5-flash-image is scheduled to shut down on October 2. It is the original model the world came to know as Nano BananaCAREFUL — The replacement named in the official table, gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview, was itself retired on June 25. The live path is the GA gemini-3.1-flash-imageSEP 30 — gemini-omni-flash-preview shuts down on September 30. Move to gemini-omni-1.1-flash, which went GA on August 27RESOLUTION — gemini-omni-1.1-flash adds a resolution field to video_config, with 360p, 720p, 1080p and 4k to choose fromEARLIEST — Google notes that a shutdown date is the earliest possible date, not a fixed one. No need to panic, but no excuse to wait eitherSAMPLING — temperature, top_p and top_k were deprecated back on July 21. Turning the temperature down is a habit that stops working across generationsOCT 2 — gemini-2.5-flash-image is scheduled to shut down on October 2. It is the original model the world came to know as Nano BananaCAREFUL — The replacement named in the official table, gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview, was itself retired on June 25. The live path is the GA gemini-3.1-flash-imageSEP 30 — gemini-omni-flash-preview shuts down on September 30. Move to gemini-omni-1.1-flash, which went GA on August 27RESOLUTION — gemini-omni-1.1-flash adds a resolution field to video_config, with 360p, 720p, 1080p and 4k to choose fromEARLIEST — Google notes that a shutdown date is the earliest possible date, not a fixed one. No need to panic, but no excuse to wait eitherSAMPLING — temperature, top_p and top_k were deprecated back on July 21. Turning the temperature down is a habit that stops working across generations
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gemini-2.5-flash-image stops on October 2, and the replacement the table names retired in June

gemini-2.5-flash-image shuts down on October 2, 2026, but the recommended replacement listed in the official table, gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview, was already retired on June 25. Here is the script I wrote to follow replacement chains to their end, and what it found across every row of the table.