Announcements

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

Compiler

• Revert workaround for std::mutex issues on github windows runners. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/ba3e7d7a8aea8a9eafebe3407d94b877cf16e362)

C++

• Update staleness (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/b7ef2ca3c068f088752d03e5f6550ead365f497d)
• Omit the _raw_default_instance_ declaration when using DLL linkage. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/22d9a030569292e5abd3e256ae512a135047c6de)
• Refactor the way we turn on the optimization in StrongPointer. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/a15c9c5dee34db5b0535206d938a9f2cf045d8ba)

Java

• Omit the _raw_default_instance_ declaration when using DLL linkage. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/22d9a030569292e5abd3e256ae512a135047c6de)

PHP

PHP C-Extension

• Fix segmentation faults with enabled keep_descriptor_pool_after_request (#16993) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/ca3b7320f3e846fdd5786abcde3e1e23f507c170)

Ruby

Ruby C-Extension

• [Ruby] Fix mismatched pointer type (#17240) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/a1d47773a2deede19536660805c494b77ec46f89)

Other

• Remove /utf-8 flag added in #14197 (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/e20cb7aaf7e6fde6b09fbb3452fffa9fa2c656d1)
• Downgrade CMake to 3.29 to workaround Abseil issue. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/8a579c1af579c55bdf4fe6da81084ece3597f712)
• Upgrade macos-11 tests to macos-12 (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/aec8a7604d74a0e8aa14b45b1295984c0acd51f2)
• Use explicit names of our large runners (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/4e3b4f0819a7187f0c369ba1a7cd1cbca012e28a)
• Upgrade our C++ release tests to large runners. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/fa2b2d61ea86ec5904105fcab97f50bdb4b93ac6)