2018-07-27 version 3.6.1 (C++/Java/Python/PHP/Objective-C/C#/Ruby/JavaScript)
C++
* Introduced workaround for Windows issue with std::atomic and std::once_flag
initialization (#4777, #4773).
PHP
* Added compatibility with PHP 7.3 (#4898).
Ruby
* Fixed Ruby crash involving Any encoding (#4718).
2018-06-01 version 3.6.0 (C++/Java/Python/PHP/Objective-C/C#/Ruby/JavaScript)
C++
* Starting from this release, we now require C++11. For those we cannot yet
upgrade to C++11, we will try to keep the 3.5.x branch updated with
critical bug fixes only. If you have any concerns about this, please
comment on issue #2780.
* Moved to C++11 types like std::atomic and std::unique_ptr and away from our
old custom-built equivalents.
* Added support for repeated message fields in lite protos using implicit
weak fields. This is an experimental feature that allows the linker to
strip out more unused messages than previously was possible.
* Fixed SourceCodeInfo for interpreted options and extension range options.
* Fixed always_print_enums_as_ints option for JSON serialization.
* Added support for ignoring unknown enum values when parsing JSON.
* Create std::string in Arena memory.
* Fixed ValidateDateTime to correctly check the day.
* Fixed bug in ZeroCopyStreamByteSink.
* Various other cleanups and fixes.
Java
* Dropped support for Java 6.
* Added a UTF-8 decoder that uses Unsafe to directly decode a byte buffer.
* Added deprecation annotations to generated code for deprecated oneof
fields.
* Fixed map field serialization in DynamicMessage.
* Cleanup and documentation for Java Lite runtime.
* Various other fixes and cleanups
* Fixed unboxed arraylists to handle an edge case
* Improved performance for copying between unboxed arraylists
* Fixed lite protobuf to avoid Java compiler warnings
* Improved test coverage for lite runtime
* Performance improvements for lite runtime
Python
* Fixed bytes/string map key incompatibility between C++ and pure-Python
implementations (issue #4029)
* Added __init__.py files to compiler and util subpackages
* Use /MT for all Windows versions
* Fixed an issue affecting the Python-C++ implementation when used with
Cython (issue #2896)
* Various text format fixes
* Various fixes to resolve behavior differences between the pure-Python and
Python-C++ implementations
PHP
* Added php_metadata_namespace to control the file path of generated metadata
file.
* Changed generated classes of nested message/enum. E.g., Foo.Bar, which
previously generates Foo_Bar, now generates Foo/Bar
* Added array constructor. When creating a message, users can pass a php
array whose content is field name to value pairs into constructor. The
created message will be initialized according to the array. Note that
message field should use a message value instead of a sub-array.
* Various bug fixes.
Objective-C
* We removed some helper class methods from GPBDictionary to shrink the size
of the library, the functionary is still there, but you may need to do some
specific +alloc / -init… methods instead.
* Minor improvements in the performance of object field getters/setters by
avoiding some memory management overhead.
* Fix a memory leak during the raising of some errors.
* Make header importing completely order independent.
* Small code improvements for things the undefined behaviors compiler option
was flagging.
Ruby
* Added ruby_package file option to control the module of generated class.
* Various bug fixes.
Javascript
* Allow setting string to int64 field.
Csharp
* Unknown fields are now parsed and then sent back on the wire. They can be
discarded at parse time via a CodedInputStream option.
* Movement towards working with .NET 3.5 and Unity
* Expression trees are no longer used
* AOT generics issues in Unity/il2cpp have a workaround (see this commit for
details)
* Floating point values are now compared bitwise (affects NaN value
comparisons)
* The default size limit when parsing is now 2GB rather than 64MB
* MessageParser now supports parsing from a slice of a byte array
* JSON list parsing now accepts null values where the underlying proto
representation does
2017-12-20 version 3.5.1 (C++/Java/Python/PHP/Objective-C/C#/Ruby/JavaScript)
Planned Future Changes
* Make C++ implementation C++11 only: we plan to require C++11 to build
protobuf code starting from 3.6.0 release. Please join this github issue:
https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/2780 to provide your feedback.
protoc
* Fixed a bug introduced in 3.5.0 and protoc in Windows now accepts non-ascii
characters in paths again.
C++
* Removed several usages of C++11 features in the code base.
* Fixed some compiler warnings.
PHP
* Fixed memory leak in C-extension implementation.
* Added discardUnknokwnFields API.
* Removed duplicatd typedef in C-extension headers.
* Avoided calling private php methods (timelib_update_ts).
* Fixed Any.php to use fully-qualified name for DescriptorPool.
Ruby
* Added Google_Protobuf_discard_unknown for discarding unknown fields in
messages.
C#
* Unknown fields are now preserved by default.
* Floating point values are now bitwise compared, affecting message equality
check and Contains() API in map and repeated fields.
2017-11-13 version 3.5.0 (C++/Java/Python/PHP/Objective-C/C#/Ruby/JavaScript)
Planned Future Changes
* Make C++ implementation C++11 only: we plan to require C++11 to build
protobuf code starting from 3.6.0 release. Please join this github issue:
https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/2780 to provide your feedback.
General
* Unknown fields are now preserved in proto3 for most of the language
implementations for proto3 by default. See the per-language section for
details.
* reserve keyword are now supported in enums
C++
* Proto3 messages are now preserving unknown fields by default. If you rely on
unknowns fields being dropped. Please use DiscardUnknownFields() explicitly.
* Deprecated the unsafe_arena_release_* and unsafe_arena_add_allocated_*
methods for string fields.
* Added move constructor and move assignment to RepeatedField,
RepeatedPtrField and google::protobuf::Any.
* Added perfect forwarding in Arena::CreateMessage
* In-progress experimental support for implicit weak fields with lite protos.
This feature allows the linker to strip out more unused messages and reduce
binary size.
* Various performance optimizations.
Java
* Proto3 messages are now preserving unknown fields by default. If you’d like
to drop unknown fields, please use the DiscardUnknownFieldsParser API. For
example:
Parser<Foo> parser = DiscardUnknownFieldsParser.wrap(Foo.parser());
Foo foo = parser.parseFrom(input);
* Added a new CodedInputStream decoder for Iterable<ByteBuffer> with direct
ByteBuffers.
* TextFormat now prints unknown length-delimited fields as messages if
possible.
* FieldMaskUtil.merge() no longer creates unnecessary empty messages when a
message field is unset in both source message and destination message.
* Various performance optimizations.
Python
* Proto3 messages are now preserving unknown fields by default. Use
message.DiscardUnknownFields() to drop unknown fields.
* Add FieldDescriptor.file in generated code.
* Add descriptor pool FindOneofByName in pure python.
* Change unknown enum values into unknown field set .
* Add more Python dict/list compatibility for Struct/ListValue.
* Add utf-8 support for text_format.Merge()/Parse().
* Support numeric unknown enum values for proto3