chore(main): release 0.4.0

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0.4.0 (2025-04-15)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Hide internal classes ApiResponse and Common
• Move generation config to the top level LiveConnectConfig
• Remove AsyncSession.sendContent method which was accidentally added
• No more checked exceptions
• Remove AsyncSession.sendContent method which was accidentally added
• No more checked exceptions

Features

• Add async editImage support for Java SDK (358c896)
• add Chat module (03442fc)
• Add domain to Web GroundingChunk (990586b)
• Add generationComplete notification to Live ServerContent (de5a762)
• add session resumption. (5c35c52)
• add support for model_selection_config to GenerateContentConfig (1958d4c)
• Add thinking_budget to ThinkingConfig for Gemini Thinking Models (a3ea4ed)
• Add traffic type to GenerateContentResponseUsageMetadata (fac241b)
• Add types for configurable speech detection (021d74b)
• Add types to support continuous sessions with a sliding window (d5e8a32)
• Add UsageMetadata to LiveServerMessage (8b57e99)
• Add Veo 2 generate_videos support in Java SDK (272649a)
• expose generation_complete, input/output_transcription & input/output_audio_transcription to SDK for Vertex Live API (e3b517a)
• merge GenerationConfig into LiveConnectConfig (e2fa59d)
• No more checked exceptions (e452491)
• No more checked exceptions (cad9eba)
• Remove experimental warnings for generate_videos and operations (be93305)
• Support audio transcription in Vertex Live API (1ddb6d4)
• support media resolution (ce9e7b0)
• Support RealtimeInputConfig, and language_code in SpeechConfig in python (f5bd874)
• Update VertexRagStore (4a75670)

Bug Fixes

• fix errors in live samples (5a9892f)
• Move generation config to the top level LiveConnectConfig (c71e78e)
• Remove AsyncSession.sendContent method which was accidentally added (e452491)
• Remove AsyncSession.sendContent method which was accidentally added (cad9eba)
• schema handling in transformer (8064028)
• Use orElseGet to defer loading of default credentials. (bc19d79)
• Use orElseGet to defer loading of default credentials. (#124) (6adac0e)

Documentation

• Add examples for embedContent (7583ddf)
• docstring improvements (9d0ca34)
• Update examples and README after removing checked exceptions (5cb6ee5)

Code Refactoring

• Hide internal classes ApiResponse and Common (6218143)

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