chore(main): release 1.55.0 (#1830)

* chore(main): release 1.55.0

* Update CHANGELOG.md

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Co-authored-by: release-please[bot] <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mark Daoust <markdaoust@google.com>

Author: release-please[bot]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,25 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.55.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/compare/v1.54.0...v1.55.0) (2025-12-11)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add the Interactions API ([836a3](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/836a33c93f26f56349758ca22e59b8e46962dad4))
+* Add enableEnhancedCivicAnswers feature in GenerateContentConfig ([15d1ea9](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/15d1ea9fbb8eff3d2a252acb60b33f8f80da55c3))
+* Add IMAGE_RECITATION and IMAGE_OTHER enum values to FinishReason ([8bb4b9a](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/8bb4b9a8b77b69904035337aa79d5147e52443b4))
+* Add voice activity detection signal. ([feae46d](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/feae46dd766f6f7dbd30a43235a7a7a87e6c8ca0))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* Replicated voice config bytes handling ([c9f8668](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/c9f8668cea83dc285372a00e58cebd082d65e19a))
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Regenerate docs for 1.54.0 ([8bac8d2](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/8bac8d2d92124067eee5eee10b04485e413ba9a3))
+
 ## [1.54.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/compare/v1.53.0...v1.54.0) (2025-12-08)
 
 

google/genai/version.py

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 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-__version__ = '1.54.0' # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = '1.55.0' # x-release-please-version

pyproject.toml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "twine>=6.1.0", "packaging>=24.2", "pkginfo>=
 
 [project]
 name = "google-genai"
-version = "1.54.0"
+version = "1.55.0"
 description = "GenAI Python SDK"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "Apache-2.0"