Bug Fixes

• Upgrade protobuf dependency to v1.36.11 to fix missing go_package errors for Editions feature protos (e.g. cpp_features.proto). (#8853)

Behavior Changes

• client: Align URL validation with Go 1.26+ to now reject target URLs with unbracketed colons in the hostname. (#8716)
  • Special Thanks: @neild
• transport/client : Return status code Unknown on malformed grpc-status. (#8735)
• • xds/resolver:
  • Drop previous route resources and report an error when no matching virtual host is found.
  • Only log LDS/RDS con...

New Features

• Add support for protobuf edition 2024. (#8685)

API Changes

• mem: Replace the Reader interface with a struct for better performance and maintainability. (#8669)

Behavior Changes

• balancer/pickfirst: Remove support for the old pick_first LB policy via the environment variable GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_NEW_PICK_FIRST=false. The new pick_first has been the default since v1.71.0. (#8672)

Bug Fixes

• xdsclient: Fix...

Dependencies

• Minimum supported Go version is now 1.24 (#8509)
  • Special Thanks: @kevinGC

Bug Fixes

• client: Return status INTERNAL when a server sends zero response messages for a unary or client-streaming RPC. (#8523)
• client: Fail RPCs with status INTERNAL instead of UNKNOWN upon receiving http headers with status 1xx and END_STREAM flag set. (#8518)
  • Speci...