Announcements

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Compiler

• Ship all option dependencies to plugins along with regular ones. (34d6c85)
• Unify plugin and built-in generators to use request/response interface (b98f6ee)
• Disable symbol visibility enforcement by default in C++ runtime (aad0daa)

C++

• Disable symbol visibility enforcement by default in C++ runtime (aad0daa)

Java

• Fix handling of optional dependencies in java generator. (892e0d5)
• Restore Protobuf Java extension modifiers in gencode that were previously removed in 7bff169 (4a18be6)
• Restore ABI compatibility for extension methods which was previously (knowingly) broken with 4.x: 94a2a44 (501f4a5)
• Cherrypick test improvements (d365736)
• Fix handling of optional dependencies in java generator. (9325480)
• Ship all option dependencies to plugins along with regular ones. (34d6c85)
• Unify plugin and built-in generators to use request/response interface (b98f6ee)

Csharp

• Regenerate stale files (299774c)

PHP

• Fix: remove provide from composer.json (bc5f303)