chore(main): release 1.81.0

Author: release-please[bot]

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "1.80.0"
+  ".": "1.81.0"
 }

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.81.0](https://github.com/googleapis/java-genai/compare/v1.80.0...v1.81.0) (2026-10-30)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **cli:** use gemini-3.5-transcribe as default model for transcribe command ([bc3779f](https://github.com/googleapis/java-genai/commit/bc3779fb69dc1946ee19b6a375253bde23c80db9))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* refresh the access token on every HTTP attempt so retries and queued async calls do not send an expired token ([673ef4c](https://github.com/googleapis/java-genai/commit/673ef4c5957cf465ae59ccc40b1e7ea101484d87))
+* refresh the access token on every HTTP attempt so retries and queued async calls do not send an expired token ([7d4a83a](https://github.com/googleapis/java-genai/commit/7d4a83a36ff1134d1bbb7badeeed6bece98bbbb9))
+
 ## [1.80.0](https://github.com/googleapis/java-genai/compare/v1.79.0...v1.80.0) (2026-10-29)
 
 

README.md

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ If you're using Maven, add the following to your dependencies:
   <dependency>
     <groupId>com.google.genai</groupId>
     <artifactId>google-genai</artifactId>
-    <version>1.80.0</version>
+    <version>1.81.0</version>
   </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 ```

examples/pom.xml

@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
 
   <groupId>com.google.genai.examples</groupId>
   <artifactId>google-genai-examples</artifactId>
-  <version>1.81.0-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-genai:current} -->
+  <version>1.81.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-genai:current} -->
   <name>google-genai-examples</name>
 
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
     <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
     <!-- {x-version-update-start:google-genai:current} -->
-    <google-genai.version>1.81.0-SNAPSHOT</google-genai.version>
+    <google-genai.version>1.81.0</google-genai.version>
     <!-- {x-version-update-end} -->
   </properties>
   <build>

pom.xml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   <groupId>com.google.genai</groupId>
   <artifactId>google-genai</artifactId>
   <name>google-genai</name>
-  <version>1.81.0-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-genai:current} -->
+  <version>1.81.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-genai:current} -->
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <description>
     Java idiomatic SDK for the Gemini Developer APIs and Vertex AI APIs.

src/main/java/com/google/genai/ApiClient.java

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 public abstract class ApiClient implements AutoCloseable {
 
   // {x-version-update-start:google-genai:released}
-  private static final String SDK_VERSION = "1.80.0";
+  private static final String SDK_VERSION = "1.81.0";
   // {x-version-update-end:google-genai:released}
   private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(ApiClient.class.getName());
 
@@ -680,9 +680,9 @@ private Optional<Map<String, String>> getTimeoutHeader(HttpOptions httpOptionsTo
    * Merges two user agent values, handling a special case for vertex-genai-modules.
    *
    * <p>Example:
-   * <li>val1 = google-genai-sdk/1.80.0 gl-java/22.0.2
-   * <li>val2 = vertex-genai-modules/1.80.0
-   * <li>Result: google-genai-sdk/1.80.0+vertex-genai-modules/1.2.3 gl-java/22.0.2
+   * <li>val1 = google-genai-sdk/1.81.0 gl-java/22.0.2
+   * <li>val2 = vertex-genai-modules/1.81.0
+   * <li>Result: google-genai-sdk/1.81.0+vertex-genai-modules/1.2.3 gl-java/22.0.2
    *
    * @param val1 The first value.
    * @param val2 The second value.

versions.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Format:
 # module:released-version:current-version
 
-google-genai:1.80.0:1.81.0-SNAPSHOT
+google-genai:1.81.0:1.81.0