diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 9fa2aaa5e..d82abb2aa 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "1.35.0"
+  ".": "1.36.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8405717d3..2f043a33b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog
 
 
+## [1.36.0](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/compare/v1.35.0...v1.36.0) (2026-01-14)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add FileSearchCallContent to Interactions ([ccf11a4](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/commit/ccf11a463f3364683b7c39ffec9670f77bcc16dc))
+* Add ImageConfig to GenerationConfig for image generation in Interactions ([f34b6fb](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/commit/f34b6fbcb2ad846c73b9c47bfd3ba94e00eb73a9))
+* Support JS local tokenizer ([bb429ad](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/commit/bb429ad3ed8d170f2a5abda01a00a918012ab80c))
+* voice activity support ([3ad1011](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/commit/3ad101159a8257897940d6a1f94aa6b68b810f37))
+
 ## [1.35.0](https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/compare/v1.34.0...v1.35.0) (2026-01-07)
 
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index bb94bc848..45233dce0 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@google/genai",
-  "version": "1.34.0",
+  "version": "1.36.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@google/genai",
-      "version": "1.34.0",
+      "version": "1.36.0",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "google-auth-library": "^10.3.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f8fcc5e0c..87928543d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@google/genai",
-  "version": "1.34.0",
+  "version": "1.36.0",
   "description": "",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "dist/node/index.mjs",
diff --git a/src/_api_client.ts b/src/_api_client.ts
index 83b4d0a85..77cae1994 100644
--- a/src/_api_client.ts
+++ b/src/_api_client.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const CONTENT_TYPE_HEADER = 'Content-Type';
 const SERVER_TIMEOUT_HEADER = 'X-Server-Timeout';
 const USER_AGENT_HEADER = 'User-Agent';
 export const GOOGLE_API_CLIENT_HEADER = 'x-goog-api-client';
-export const SDK_VERSION = '1.35.0'; // x-release-please-version
+export const SDK_VERSION = '1.36.0'; // x-release-please-version
 const LIBRARY_LABEL = `google-genai-sdk/${SDK_VERSION}`;
 const VERTEX_AI_API_DEFAULT_VERSION = 'v1beta1';
 const GOOGLE_AI_API_DEFAULT_VERSION = 'v1beta';