This is release 1.78.0 (gutsy) of gRPC Core.

For gRPC documentation, see grpc.io. For previous releases, see Releases.

This release contains refinements, improvements, and bug fixes, with highlights listed below.

C++

• adding address_sorting dep in naming test build. (#41045)

Objective-C

• [Backport][v1.78.x][Fix][Compiler] Plugins fall back to the edition 2023 for older protobuf. (#41358)

Python

• [python] aio: fix race condition causing asyncio.run() to hang forever during the shutdown process. (#40989)
• [Python] Migrate to pyproject.toml build system from setup.py builds. (#40833)
• [Python] Log error details when ExecuteBatchError occurs (at DEBUG level). (#40921)