gRPC-Core Release 1.42.0

[Mark D. Roth]

This is the 1.42.0 (granola) release announcement for gRPC-Core and the wrapped languages C++, C#, Objective-C, Python, PHP and Ruby. Latest release notes are here.

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

Core

• Update RDS parsing for use on servers. (#27715)
• Upgrade Abseil to LTS 20210324, Patch 2. (#27811)
• Upgrade bazel to 4.2.1 (LTS), upgrade bazel toolchain to 4.1.0. (#27410)
• Remove old backwards compatibility cronet compression workaround code. (#27701)
• EventEngine Test Suite: Timers. (#27496)
• EventEngine::Closure. (#27395)
• OpenCensusCallTracer: Move context generation to StartTransportStreamOpBatch. (#27523)
• Fix client idle filter. (#27611)
• allow connectivity state watching to work on lame channels. (#27747)
• grpclb: implement subchannel caching. (#27657)
• xds: change CSDS to populate new generic_xds_configs field. (#27794)

C++

• Describe support-levels for undocumented supported platforms. (#27363)

C#

• Fix link error when building app with Xamarin.iOS. (#27345)
• C#: metadata.Get and GetAll should accept uppercase keys. (#27383)
• Fix use-after-free metadata corruption in C# when receiving response headers for streaming response calls. (#27382)

Objective-C

• [objc] GRPCErrorCode enum base type to int32_t. (#27908)
• [objc] Adding lightweight generic to GPRCCallOptions's initialMetadata prop . (#27905)
• [objc] GRPCMetadataDictionary convenient typedef. (#27845)
• [objc] Switch to proto forward declare for gRPC codegen plugin. (#27444)

Python

• Add Aspects to Bazel py_proto_library and py_grpc_library Rules. (#27275)
• [Aio] Add add_done_callback/done/cancelled methods to ServicerContext. (#27767)
• [Aio] Correct the typing of input metadata. (#27768)
• Address leak when using request stream interceptors (#25449). (#27571)
• Catch ExecuteBatchError in _consume_request_iterator. (#27240)
• [Aio] Resolve deprecated warnings from asyncio. (#27635)
• Create Bazel gevent test harness. (#27507)
• Add python_requires >=3.6 to grpcio-* packages. (#27495)
• fix: use == instead of is when comparing with a certain types of literals. (#26519)
• python: fix type annotation for the _metadata field. (#27251)

Ruby

• ruby: add arm64 darwin support. (#25992)
• ruby: build native Darwin gems using rake-compiler-dock. (#25794)

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Mark D. Roth <ro...@google.com>
Software Engineer
Google, Inc.

[Jan de Vries]

I'm still waiting for the Cocoapod to update (for Mac/iOS) to a stable version, which is currently stuck to the pre-release version of 1.42.0:

https://cocoapods.org/pods/!ProtoCompiler-gRPCPlugin

I'm not sure where to go with this question.

Op woensdag 1 december 2021 om 20:04:53 UTC+1 schreef Mark D. Roth:

[Jan de Vries]

It got updated this week to 1.43.0 so I'm good now :)

Op maandag 3 januari 2022 om 11:14:13 UTC+1 schreef Jan de Vries: