Announcements

• Protobuf News may include additional announcements or pre-announcements for upcoming changes.

Bazel

• Fix proto_info_bzl (#18918) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/083de5faeb2d7a1940d1028c317a4a8bad60fe07)
• Use rules_cc everywhere in protobuf (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/ddadd0b3d674d775baa9ff4ab2f83ce369cca21d)
• Upgrade rules_cc to 0.0.13 (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/3dd483541ed66ceca3f4b876d938081c753ca5b7)
• Convert proto toolchain string to Label (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/aa181e28db6e5cc36580519b49a08d0ff7042dba)
• Prepare supporting targets for testing (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/a748b10c32365ead2641fd3a3ccfadfe04f3746b)

Java

• Give Kotlin jars an OSGi Manifest (#18812) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/0c51ebac875657ecf6f8cca3d5463c23eb7d8b00)
• Re-export includingDefaultValueFields in deprecated state for important Cloud customer. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/7321b2fd9a787dd08cd3cf8b25e8ccd9e479c60c)
• Restore compatibility with 3.22 gencode by re-adding mutableCopy helpers (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/1b1e90b83101314250f1fec3b6989b20606d0ecb)

Kotlin

• Give Kotlin jars an OSGi Manifest (#18812) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/0c51ebac875657ecf6f8cca3d5463c23eb7d8b00)

Python

• Load Python rules everywhere in protobuf (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/a18f0de47c2c650f5c57e6cca80ee3bded76b19a)

UPB (Python/PHP/Ruby C-Extension)

• Load Python rules everywhere in protobuf (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/a18f0de47c2c650f5c57e6cca80ee3bded76b19a)

Other

• Upgrade rules_java and remove experimental_google_legacy_api flag (#18889) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/f25389b5db127e23d49fb1140d42ce67a6b9f415)
• Replace use of C++17 with disabling a warning (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/111584f24bdec9c784c6cd3b9cb3828365f6da4c)
• Load Shell rules everywhere in protobuf (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/1822c8a6a22230d5124e43d7bb73d5831fdb93f3)
• Fix Bazel dependency cycle issue affecting Kythe (#18768) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/6df33a4b8a105d4382c212f46128e1539a3fae6a)
• Remove rules_rust dependency (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/4329b89321f2dbfde6dc9ffc62405daf5b33d67d)
• Remove release branch staleness tests. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/3551ee31b8ed544bfb2ae676f58da0851ffd8a54)
• Remove javaopts requiring java8 in non-release builds. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/98beac0b3c0335f3f638d076f7584ff9785d4644)