Protocol Buffers Version 21.3 is Released!

[Adam Cozzette]

This version includes the following non-breaking changes:

C++

• Add header search paths to Protobuf-C++.podspec (#10024)
• Fixed Visual Studio constinit errors (#10232)
• Fix #9947: make the ABI compatible between debug and non-debug builds (#10271)

UPB

• Allow empty package names (fixes behavior regression in 4.21.0)
• Fix a SEGV bug when comparing a non-materialized sub-message (#10208)
• Fix several bugs in descriptor mapping containers (eg. descriptor.services_by_name)
• for x in mapping now yields keys rather than values, to match Python conventions and the behavior of the old library.
• Lookup operations now correctly reject unhashable types as map keys.
• We implement repr() to use the same format as dict.
• Fix maps to use the ScalarMapContainer class when appropriate
• Fix bug when parsing an unknown value in a proto2 enum extension (protocolbuffers/upb#717)

PHP

• Add "readonly" as a keyword for PHP and add previous classnames to descriptor pool (#10041)

Python

• Make //:protobuf_python and //:well_known_types_py_pb2 public (#10118)

Bazel

• Add back a filegroup for :well_known_protos (#10061)

You can view the release on GitHub.

If you experience any issues with the release, please file a bug or post on the Protocol Buffers forum.