gRPC Java v1.45.0 Released

[Terry Wilson]

The release v1.45.0 is now available.

Bug Fixes

• rls: fix child lb leak when client channel is shutdown (#8750)
• rls: fix RLS lb policy name (#8867)
• testing: fix GrpcCleanupRule issue when retrying tests (#8918)
• xds: Fix XdsNameResolver blindly propagates control plane errors (#8953). This change forces the use of UNAVAILABLE for any xDS communication failures, which otherwise could greatly confuse an application
• xds: fix validation code to accept new-style CertificateProviderPluginInstance (#8892)
• xds: fix a concurrency issue in CSDS ClientStatus responses (#8795)
• xds: Squelch "Failed to resolve name" ADS reconnection error logs. Workaround for #8886 (#8942)
• xds: Improve priority failover handling for IDLE subpolicies (#8926). This mainly improves behavior with ring_hash
• bom: Include grpc-binder
• binder: Fix a ServiceConnection leak (#8861)
• binder: Increase fairness across streams when limited by flow control. This can dramatically reduce latency when channel is being used for high throughput (#8835)
• android: fix for app coming to foreground (#8855)

Behavior Changes

• Local-only transparent retry is (practically) unlimited now. Previously it was at most once per RPC.
• xds: implement least_request load balancing policy (#8739)

Dependencies

• Bump Error Prone Annotations to 2.10.0
• Bump Guava to 31.0.1-android
• Bump Google Auth Library to 1.4.0
• Bump Auto Value to 1.9
• netty: Include both x86 and Arm64 epoll as dependency for grpc-netty-shaded
• testing: remove opencensus dependency from grpc-testing (#8833)