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News topics provide information about past events and changes with Protocol Buffers, and plans for upcoming changes.

  • October 10, 2023 - Documentation for Protobuf Editions features is published
  • September 15, 2023 - μpb Moving to the Protobuf GitHub repository
  • August 15, 2023 - Breaking Python change with the replacement of message.UnknownFields()
  • August 9, 2023 - Support policy for .NET
  • July 17, 2023 - Dropping support for older versions of Bazel
  • July 6, 2023 - Dropping support for older versions of PHP, Ruby, and Python
  • June 29, 2023 - Protobuf Editions announcement
  • April 28, 2023 - Null no longer allowed in json_name field options
  • April 20, 2023 - Update to Ruby code generator
  • April 11, 2023 - Removing syntax reflection, releasing C++ CORD support for singular bytes fields to OSS, option retention, and dropping support for Bazel <5.3
  • August 3, 2022 - Platform Support Changes and Upcoming Changes in the C++ 22.x Line
  • July 6, 2022 - Library Breaking Change Policy
  • May 6, 2022 - Versioning, Python Updates, and JavaScript Support