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Google's python-genai 2.21.0 adds a destination parameter so file downloads stream to disk instead of into memory
Released 2026-08-31, v2.21.0 adds a `destination` parameter to `client.files.download` supporting streaming downloads to disk or file-like objects, which matters for anyone pulling large media out of the Files API without holding it all in memory. It also adds Video Understanding support to the Interactions API, audio/webm MIME type support, and translation_config for GEAP. A bug fix exposes ProcessingCallStep and ProcessingResultStep in the Interactions SDK, which were previously unreachable types.
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