## What happened
Structured outputs on gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 started returning the JSON wrapped in ```json fences with a stray "ny" text prefix before it, breaking strict JSON parsing. The same code worked fine on gemini-2.0-flash, and the corruption was reproducible in AI Studio too, which showed it was a model-side issue rather than an SDK bug. Maintainer pamorgan confirmed the root cause and rolled the fix out to the Gemini API. As defensive practice, several users kept stripping markdown fences from response text before parsing.
## The fix that worked
If your structured output from gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 comes back with a stray "ny" prefix and ```json fences, that was a model-side bug in that preview, not your SDK code. Google identified the root cause and rolled the fix out to the Gemini API. Regenerate against the current model and the parsing should be clean. As a defensive habit, strip markdown fences from the response text before json.loads, since several users kept that workaround even after the fix.