gRPC 1.0.0-pre1 release packages are now available for testing

[kail...@google.com]

Hi Everyone,

The gRPC team is pleased to announce that we have our first 1.0-pre packages ready for testing. Instructions and release notes below.

Please give these a try and report any issues via our issue trackers on Github, it will help ensure that our 1.0 release is robust and works really well.

Do note that this is a pre-release. We are currently working to update our documentation to reflect these changes and make any last minute changes before we release 1.0.

Issue trackers:

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues

https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/issues

Notes on installation:

Python:

pip install --pre grpcio

pip install --pre  grpcio-tools

Ruby:

gem install grpc --pre

gem install grpc-tools --pre

Node,js:

npm install grpc

npm install grpc-tools

PHP:

[sudo] pecl install grpc

gem install ronn rake

git clone https://github.com/stanley-cheung/Protobuf-PHP

cd Protobuf-PHP

rake pear:package version=1.0

[sudo] pear install Protobuf-1.0.tgz

C#:

• Open Visual Studio / MonoDevelop / Xamarin Studio and start a new project/solution.

• Add the Grpc NuGet package as a dependency (Project options -> Manage NuGet Packages).

• To be able to generate code from Protocol Buffer (.proto) file definitions, add the Grpc.Tools NuGet package that contains Protocol Buffers compiler (protoc) and the gRPC protoc plugin.

• Make sure to “show prerelease packages”.

Java:

Released on Maven central, might take a few hours to appear.

Objective-C:

Cocoapod spec and instructions.

Notes for Development Release 1.0.0-pre1

Release 1.0.0-pre1 for Java

Release 1.0.0-pre1

Please see the notes for the previous releases here: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases

Development release of github.com/grpc/grpc.

C-core:

• Performance boost using delayed writes.

• Added support for SO_REUSEPORT.

• New error propagation system.

• Default log verbosity is now ERROR.

• Various optimizations and fixes.

Python:

• Made handlers optional in grpc.server.

• Beta support for Python 3 on Mac OS X x64, Windows x86, and Linux x86 and x64.

• Added a reference implementation of server health-checking as the package grpcio-health-checking.

• Added distutils custom command for gRPC proto generation to grpcio-tools.

• Many behind-the-scenes fixes.

Ruby:

• Removed Core::CompletionQueue from the public API. Removed all function parameters that required CompletionQueues.

• Split trailing metadata out into a separate instance variable on calls.

PHP:

• Fixed shutdown hang #4017.

• PHP7 support #7464.

C#:

• Support for use of the Grpc nuget package with dotnet CLI tooling #7230.

Objective-c:

• https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/7264 BoringSSL's podspec (as v5.0) now builds correctly for devices (not only simulator).

• https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/7288 Well-known protos ([the `.proto` files distributed with `protoc`](https://github.com/google/protobuf/tree/master/src/google/protobuf)) can now be used when compiling pods as dynamic frameworks.

• https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/7359 `protoc` and the gRPC plugin for Objective-C are now distributed as pods, so versions mismatches among them and the Protobuf and gRPC runtimes are an issue of the past.

• https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/6855 Support for multiple services defined in the same `.proto` file.

• (Various pull requests) Compressed data and connectivity changes are now handled more robustly.

• https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/6849 gRPC can now be integrated as dynamic frameworks (`use_frameworks!` in your `Podfile`), which means it can be used alongside pods written in Swift.

Node.js:

• Split node health check code into a separate package: grpc-health-check.

[Paul Grosu]

Hi Kailash,

This is fantastic news!  Big Congratulations to the whole team!

Just wondering how thoroughly should we test these releases?  Basically should we put:

• A naive user hat (i.e. let me find the documentation and follow it), or
  
• An expert user hat (i.e. let me tweak the Makefile and core code, and make it work for my instance)?
  

Thanks,
Paul

[Kailash Sethuraman]

At the moment, the website (grpc.io) documentation not fully reflect the pre-release. They reference the last full release, 0.15. 

I would recommend something in-between both the paths you mention. Try these packages in your test environments as you normally would, see if it works and report any unexpected behaviour. 

Branches for the code:

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/v1.0.x

and 

https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/tree/v1.0.x

Hope that helps! 

[Nicolas Noble]

Remember there's no such thing as bad feedback. We want to know how it works for you based on your typical usage case.

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[Paul Grosu]

Well with a major release such as 1.0, that usually comes with some stringency expectations on completeness, but I will be kind and helpful about it knowing the history :)

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[jdov...@gmail.com]

Awesome news !!

[Nicolas Noble]

Hi everyone,

  We just released gRPC-1.0.0-pre2, fixing reported issues from our earlier pre1 release, and also using the now-released protobuf-3.0.0. See https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/tag/v3.0.0 for the release notes about protobuf 3.0.0. Packages for all languages should have been pushed.

  Two important changes to note:

-) In Ruby, due to a protobuf change, the generated filenames changed to have a "_rb" suffix added to them. This has an impact on the import statements in user's Ruby code.

-) In C#, the 1.0.0-pre2 package updates its async library dependency from Ix-Async.1.2.5 to System.Interactive.3.0.0.

  As before, please let us know if you have any feedback on that pre-release.

  Thanks!

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[Paul Grosu]

Many thanks Nico and Team for the great work!

Have a great weekend!
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