Announcements

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

Bazel

• Add missing line to docstring after Args (#19213) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/6f310d5d88585e6badf12620fb18e11242c5b838)

Compiler

• Begin adding extension numbers to SourceCodeInfo and FileDescriptorSet for tooling purposes. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/07e489d98a4c445b0a9c56b07b195b258719ee82)
• Update protoc release to include editions language features proto for Go (#19013) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/63d966b0d270cbebb4681c0d4c905031284e0d2b)

Java

• Remove deprecation warnings for Timestamp and Duration add/subtract/between that we do not yet have alternatives to. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/f606c138a55b68bbc009281918023f7ede58720b)
• [29.x] Add missing java load (#19016) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/bb287be772454d63b411b73d60b1d92daa879f2e)

Csharp

• Begin adding extension numbers to SourceCodeInfo and FileDescriptorSet for tooling purposes. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/07e489d98a4c445b0a9c56b07b195b258719ee82)

Python

• Fix a python bug when assign an empty Struct at creation. (#18977) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/bb0d57512d7731164837f57274e23eb411f80ccf)
• Add a deprecation warning to py_proto_library (#19032) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/53cde641d941293cde7dd8fe5b7e429ee52658bd)

PHP

PHP C-Extension

• Fixed non-conformance in JSON parsing for empty strings in numeric fields. (#19259) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/b69ea96ef9c11e557a19d971b1ef10a8732c7013)
• See also UPB changes below, which may affect PHP C-Extension.

Ruby

• Fixed non-conformance in JSON parsing for empty strings in numeric fields. (#19259) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/b69ea96ef9c11e557a19d971b1ef10a8732c7013)

Ruby C-Extension

• Fixed non-conformance in JSON parsing for empty strings in numeric fields. (#19259) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/b69ea96ef9c11e557a19d971b1ef10a8732c7013)
• See also UPB changes below, which may affect Ruby C-Extension.

UPB (Python/PHP/Ruby C-Extension)

• Fixed non-conformance in JSON parsing for empty strings in numeric fields. (#19259) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/b69ea96ef9c11e557a19d971b1ef10a8732c7013)

Other

• Upgrade rules_cc 0.0.15 and rules_java 8.3.1 (#19215) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/fb8ee79637773d51e6e15679c1509aed2f9bf9d0)