Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite: Deprecation of temperature, top_p, and top_k and how to migrate
Summary
The Gemini API page announces GA of Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, highlighting performance, cost, and feature improvements. It also discloses API changes: sampling parameters like temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and will be ignored or rejected in future generations, and prefilled model turns are no longer supported. The article provides migration guidance, code samples, and a checklist to help developers move to the new Flash models and align their integrations accordingly.