What’s new in the VideoGen API. Each entry below covers a single release window with breaking changes, new endpoints, fixes, and SDK updates.
.md to its URL (for example, /changelog/2026/5/5.md).POST /v1/tools/generate-image (text and/or reference images) and POST /v1/tools/generate-video-clip (text prompt, reference images, and/or a source video). Replaces the separate prompt-to-image, image-to-image, prompt-to-video-clip, image-to-video-clip, and video-to-video-clip routes. Other route renames: prompt-to-sound-effect → generate-sound-effect, audio-to-avatar-clip → generate-avatar, generate-tts → text-to-speech, remove-image-bg → remove-image-background, remove-video-bg → remove-video-background.watermarkMode on generation requests (AUTO, VIDEO_GEN, NONE). NONE requires the Production API add-on; otherwise the API returns a documented error.POST /v1/files/{fileId}/archive archives a file (sets archived_at); archived files are omitted from list results.generate-image and generate-video-clip executions now apply reference imageFileIds / videoFileId inputs end-to-end (previously ignored in some paths).llms.txt and <llms-only> parity so markdown exports include the same examples as tabbed guide pages (REST overview, webhook payloads, changelog, and key guides).llms.txt to use doc paths (/rest-api-reference/..., /webhook-events/webhook-events/...), list every sitemap page (including Examples and archive-file), remove non-doc same-origin links that broke agent checks, and set dynamic-snippets / ai-examples to false so HTML and markdown exports stay aligned for API reference pages.POST /v1/tools/image-to-image now accepts imageStorageFileIds (an array) instead of imageStorageFileId (a single string). Pass one or more source image IDs to combine or transform multiple inputs in a single call.vg_file_*, vg_exec_*, vg_voic_*, vg_pres_*) now use a compact URL-safe formatpollExecutedTool, uploadFile, downloadFile, getHydratedFile, verifyWebhookSignature) are now correctly bundled in both the TypeScript and Python SDK packagescandidates to results in tool execution responses for clarityPOST /v1/webhooks/endpoints and DELETE /v1/webhooks/endpoints/{id} for managing webhook subscriptionsfile.* event types (file.upload.completed, file.playback_ready, file.download_ready, file.analysis_completed, file.analysis_failed)POST /v1/files/upload for uploading your own media via the APIPOST /v1/files/search for semantic search across generated and uploaded filesenable-public-preview and disable-public-preview endpoints for filesvideogen) published to PyPIimage-to-image and video-to-video-clip tool endpointsnumCandidates parameter to generate multiple results per requestvectorize-image, remove-image-background, and remove-video-background tool endpointsGENERATE_* tool types to PROMPT_TO_* and GENERATE_VOICEOVER to TEXT_TO_SPEECHupscale-image and upscale-video tool endpointsFirst public release of the VideoGen API and TypeScript SDK (@videogen/sdk).
prompt-to-image, prompt-to-video-clip, text-to-speech, prompt-to-sound-effect, audio-to-avatar-clip