Changes Announced on October 21, 2026

Dropping Support for Objective-C

We are dropping support for Objective-C in Protocol Buffers in the v38 release. This follows CocoaPods becoming read-only on December 2, 2026 (as announced in 2024 here). There are no plans to publish Objective-C to SwiftPM due to lack of demand and support for non-ARC code.

Objective-C will remain in our long term support release (37.x) until Q1 2028.

If you have any questions or concerns, please comment on the GitHub issue.