The one discontinued on November 19 is gemini-3.6-flash, while 3.7 isn’t until January 28
Author’s note: Google Cloud’s model lifecycle page shows gemini-3.6-flash retiring on 2026-11-19 and gemini-3.7-flash retiring on 2027-01-28. Both list gemini-3.8-flash as the replacement. This post helps you work out which one you actually need to change. Lately a lot of developers have been hearing “Flash is being shut down.” The first instinct is to grep … Read more