Announcements

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

Java

• Remove unused pom.xml files. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/aaf5f798c0c40787e82dacc80df47dd96519dbd5)

Kotlin

• Remove unused pom.xml files. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/aaf5f798c0c40787e82dacc80df47dd96519dbd5)

Objective-C

• [ObjC] Support errors when merging unknown fields to a message. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/c46340eb36e7b8a2477b99062f0dc6816c9a0bcc)
• [ObjC] Add apis for removing things from GPBUnknownFields. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/c5c9c89441e6d04bc1246aa78f44a33f2a407251)
• [ObjC] Collect unknown fields as data (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/a6b353582c7e8a5855f8075b131f2f81c191230a)
• [ObjC] Internal helper for getting the unknown field data from a message (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/bf2d4e707c139fa4d58bae68efbf232ed445c6f3)
• [ObjC] Update tests to use both unknown fields apis. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/0832b52355c4ae4cde993cf8a09387d8c757525f)
• [ObjC] Deprecate GPBTextFormatForUnknownFieldSet(). (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/d1b6f8c8eb1e4a354fe7463828e53315936454c8)
• [ObjC] Parsing helper and tests around unknown fields. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/9b16ee477ba88dc8d495c3a7b455cd6078977b1f)
• [ObjC] Add test around enum unknown values. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/fad7b78e1a09e90f5387ff414fa8cf3d6844772e)
• [ObjC] Expose a helper for stream error. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/cf7abf6c6bbb2a578901e312e3ec08d69049b274)
• [ObjC] Support MessageSet with GPBUnknownFields. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/ddf9b767041f3843e6348c12c715def215f5e9af)
• [ObjC] Update MessageSet Parsing. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/5fa8cd95746f9ff10d0914fb1efbde2154df5660)
• [ObjC] Validate MessageSet expectations. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/3aa491cf8f689e17d8320c489b6c15266e5e301d)
• [ObjC] Improve parsing validations (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/ef4898fc5e8be4fe43ca9a51709a4097ff028c8d)

Python

• Remove service.py usages in builder (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/902a68a1591d7e46312cbb2b9ca4b6f9249e4d7e)
• Raise warnings for deprecated google/protobuf/reflection.py APIs. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/38140ac5443f74a6248d259c30a6a885a358b301)

Ruby

• [Ruby] Warn if assigning a "UTF-8" string with invalid UTF-8. (#17253) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/fe9a53cb5184772f4160103233b65bd17e817d53)

Ruby C-Extension

• [Ruby] Warn if assigning a "UTF-8" string with invalid UTF-8. (#17253) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/fe9a53cb5184772f4160103233b65bd17e817d53)

Other

• Set -ex in test_java.yml (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/6a7e2154a25b49074880c1b25bf886ad654d2286)
• Refactor java maven GHA test to use our generated jars. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/671ef8b8526fd8ba2d910c517a7d77b3d9d7c5c4)
• Remove /utf-8 flag added in #14197 (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/440dc8306decf9ec898b1cbac8b67b16bf204888)
• Downgrade CMake to 3.29 to workaround Abseil issue. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/cd75dd59824c5c60afb8ba894dc1db3a92bbc582)