chore(deps): bump the gradle group with 7 updates

[dependabot]

Bumps the gradle group with 7 updates:

Package	From	To
io.grpc:grpc-protobuf	1.78.0	1.79.0
io.grpc:grpc-stub	1.78.0	1.79.0
io.grpc:grpc-netty-shaded	1.78.0	1.79.0
build.buf.protoc-gen-validate:pgv-java-stub	1.3.0	1.3.3
com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java	4.33.5	4.34.0
com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java-util	4.33.5	4.34.0
com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-common-protos	2.65.0	2.66.0

Updates io.grpc:grpc-protobuf from 1.78.0 to 1.79.0

Release notes

Sourced from io.grpc:grpc-protobuf's releases.

v1.79.0

API Changes

• core: Delete the never-used io.grpc.internal.ReadableBuffer.readBytes(ByteBuffer) (#12580) (738782fb0). This is deeply internal and not accessible, so shouldn’t impact anything. However, Apache Arrow Java uses reflection to access private fields; GH-939: Remove reflection for gRPC buffers is swapping to gRPC’s public zero-copy APIs

• opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587). Introduce an optional Predicate targetAttributeFilter to control how grpc.target is recorded in OpenTelemetry client metrics. When a filter is provided, targets rejected by the predicate are normalized to "other" to reduce grpc.target metric cardinality, while accepted targets are recorded as-is. If no filter is set, existing behavior is preserved. This change adds a new Builder API on GrpcOpenTelemetry to allow applications to configure the filter. 

Behavior Changes

• core: Convert AutoConfiguredLB to an actual LB (4bbf8eee5). This is an internal refactoring, but it does improve how errors are handled for broken binaries. Previously, not being able to load pick_first would result in a channel panic. Now it is handled as a regular load balancing error

• okhttp: Assert no pending streams before transport READY (#12566) (ed6d175fc). No pending streams should exist when the transport transitions to READY. This PR adds an assertion to help verify this invariant.

Bug Fixes

• core: PickFirstLB should not return a subchannel during CONNECTING (228fc8ecd). Pick-first in grpc-java has behaved this way since it was created, and it was of no consequence. However, now there are some load balancing policies (mainly RLS) that will do a pick() and hope the result to be reasonably accurate for metrics.

Improvements

• core: Improve DEADLINE_EXCEEDED message for CallCreds delays (ead532b39). Previously the error message contained “buffered_nanos” and “waiting_for_connection” for connection delays. However, we discovered the same strings were also used if waiting on CallCredentials. Now you’ll see details like “connecting_and_lb_delay”, “call_credentials_delay”, and “was_still_waiting”.

• opentelemetry: Add Android API checking (a9f73f4c0). Previously we assumed OpenTelemetry support would not be used on Android. It did happen to be compatible with Android, but since OpenTelemetry does have some Android support, we now have a check that it remains compatible

• core: Catch Errors when calling complex config parsing code (a535ed799). Error (and any other Throwable) is now caught and handled when parsing configuration (e.g., service config, xds). This will cause such failures to be handled gracefully instead of panicking the channel

• core: Implement LoadBalancer.Helper.createOobChannel() with the internals of createResolvingOobChannel() (3915d029c). This API is only expected to be relevant to the gRPC-LB lookaside load balancer, and is not believed to have behavior changes. Out-of-band channel had been implemented with its own stripped-down Channel without load balancing. Reimplementing using the resolving oob channel makes it a full-fledged channel and reduces the burden when integrating new features and allows us to have a ManagedChannelBuilder to use with efforts like gRFC A110: Child Channel Options.

• xds: Implement the proactive connection logic in RingHashLoadBalancer as outlined in gRFC A61 (#12596). Previously, the Java implementation only initialized child balancers when a ring-chosen endpoint was in TRANSIENT_FAILURE during a picker's pickSubchannel call. This PR adds the missing logic: when a child balancer reports TRANSIENT_FAILURE, the LoadBalancer now proactively initializes the first available IDLE child if no other children are currently connecting or ready.

This ensures a backup subchannel starts warming up immediately outside the RPC flow, reducing failover latency and improving overall resilience. This behavior was previously present but was inadvertently lost after #10610.

• api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602) (f65127cf7) Experimental RFC 3986 target URI parsing mode (disabled by default)

New Features

• opentelemetry: Actual reason for the disconnects in subchannel metrics(6b2f7580c), completing the remaining work in gRFC A96: OTel metrics for Subchannels

Dependencies 

• protobuf: Upgrade Bazel protobuf to 33.1 (#12553) (b61a8f49c) and load java_proto_library from the protobuf repo (c7f3cdbc3)

• protobuf: Fix build with Bazel 9 by upgrading bazel_jar_jar and grpc-proto versions (#12569)

• Upgrade dependencies (#12588) (6422092e3) Netty to 4.1.130, error-prone annotations to 2.45.0, google-auth-library to 1.41.0, tomcat-embed-core9 to 9.0.113, tomcat-embed-core to 10.1.50, opentelemetry to 1.57.0, jetty-ee10-servlet to 12.1.5, jetty-http2-server to 12.1.5, google-cloud-logging to 3.23.9, google-auth to 1.41.0, proto-google-common-protos to 2.63.2.

... (truncated)

Commits

• 381593f Bump version to 1.79.0
• f93ecb0 Update README etc to reference 1.79.0
• f6d140f xds: Normalize weights before combining endpoint and locality weights
• c589bef core: clarify dns javadoc/test about trailing path segments
• 65596ae core: Move 4 test cases from DnsNameResolverTest to DnsNameResolverProviderTe...
• 59a64f0 core: Use FlagResetRule to set/restore system properties in DnsNameResolverTe...
• c5f5ee0 opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587)
• f65127c api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602)
• a535ed7 Catch Errors when calling complex parsing code
• ebb9420 xds: Merge ClusterResolverLB into CdsLB2
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

Updates io.grpc:grpc-stub from 1.78.0 to 1.79.0

Release notes

Sourced from io.grpc:grpc-stub's releases.

v1.79.0

API Changes

• core: Delete the never-used io.grpc.internal.ReadableBuffer.readBytes(ByteBuffer) (#12580) (738782fb0). This is deeply internal and not accessible, so shouldn’t impact anything. However, Apache Arrow Java uses reflection to access private fields; GH-939: Remove reflection for gRPC buffers is swapping to gRPC’s public zero-copy APIs

• opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587). Introduce an optional Predicate targetAttributeFilter to control how grpc.target is recorded in OpenTelemetry client metrics. When a filter is provided, targets rejected by the predicate are normalized to "other" to reduce grpc.target metric cardinality, while accepted targets are recorded as-is. If no filter is set, existing behavior is preserved. This change adds a new Builder API on GrpcOpenTelemetry to allow applications to configure the filter. 

Behavior Changes

• core: Convert AutoConfiguredLB to an actual LB (4bbf8eee5). This is an internal refactoring, but it does improve how errors are handled for broken binaries. Previously, not being able to load pick_first would result in a channel panic. Now it is handled as a regular load balancing error

• okhttp: Assert no pending streams before transport READY (#12566) (ed6d175fc). No pending streams should exist when the transport transitions to READY. This PR adds an assertion to help verify this invariant.

Bug Fixes

• core: PickFirstLB should not return a subchannel during CONNECTING (228fc8ecd). Pick-first in grpc-java has behaved this way since it was created, and it was of no consequence. However, now there are some load balancing policies (mainly RLS) that will do a pick() and hope the result to be reasonably accurate for metrics.

Improvements

• core: Improve DEADLINE_EXCEEDED message for CallCreds delays (ead532b39). Previously the error message contained “buffered_nanos” and “waiting_for_connection” for connection delays. However, we discovered the same strings were also used if waiting on CallCredentials. Now you’ll see details like “connecting_and_lb_delay”, “call_credentials_delay”, and “was_still_waiting”.

• opentelemetry: Add Android API checking (a9f73f4c0). Previously we assumed OpenTelemetry support would not be used on Android. It did happen to be compatible with Android, but since OpenTelemetry does have some Android support, we now have a check that it remains compatible

• core: Catch Errors when calling complex config parsing code (a535ed799). Error (and any other Throwable) is now caught and handled when parsing configuration (e.g., service config, xds). This will cause such failures to be handled gracefully instead of panicking the channel

• core: Implement LoadBalancer.Helper.createOobChannel() with the internals of createResolvingOobChannel() (3915d029c). This API is only expected to be relevant to the gRPC-LB lookaside load balancer, and is not believed to have behavior changes. Out-of-band channel had been implemented with its own stripped-down Channel without load balancing. Reimplementing using the resolving oob channel makes it a full-fledged channel and reduces the burden when integrating new features and allows us to have a ManagedChannelBuilder to use with efforts like gRFC A110: Child Channel Options.

• xds: Implement the proactive connection logic in RingHashLoadBalancer as outlined in gRFC A61 (#12596). Previously, the Java implementation only initialized child balancers when a ring-chosen endpoint was in TRANSIENT_FAILURE during a picker's pickSubchannel call. This PR adds the missing logic: when a child balancer reports TRANSIENT_FAILURE, the LoadBalancer now proactively initializes the first available IDLE child if no other children are currently connecting or ready.

This ensures a backup subchannel starts warming up immediately outside the RPC flow, reducing failover latency and improving overall resilience. This behavior was previously present but was inadvertently lost after #10610.

• api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602) (f65127cf7) Experimental RFC 3986 target URI parsing mode (disabled by default)

New Features

• opentelemetry: Actual reason for the disconnects in subchannel metrics(6b2f7580c), completing the remaining work in gRFC A96: OTel metrics for Subchannels

Dependencies 

• protobuf: Upgrade Bazel protobuf to 33.1 (#12553) (b61a8f49c) and load java_proto_library from the protobuf repo (c7f3cdbc3)

• protobuf: Fix build with Bazel 9 by upgrading bazel_jar_jar and grpc-proto versions (#12569)

• Upgrade dependencies (#12588) (6422092e3) Netty to 4.1.130, error-prone annotations to 2.45.0, google-auth-library to 1.41.0, tomcat-embed-core9 to 9.0.113, tomcat-embed-core to 10.1.50, opentelemetry to 1.57.0, jetty-ee10-servlet to 12.1.5, jetty-http2-server to 12.1.5, google-cloud-logging to 3.23.9, google-auth to 1.41.0, proto-google-common-protos to 2.63.2.

... (truncated)

Commits

• 381593f Bump version to 1.79.0
• f93ecb0 Update README etc to reference 1.79.0
• f6d140f xds: Normalize weights before combining endpoint and locality weights
• c589bef core: clarify dns javadoc/test about trailing path segments
• 65596ae core: Move 4 test cases from DnsNameResolverTest to DnsNameResolverProviderTe...
• 59a64f0 core: Use FlagResetRule to set/restore system properties in DnsNameResolverTe...
• c5f5ee0 opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587)
• f65127c api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602)
• a535ed7 Catch Errors when calling complex parsing code
• ebb9420 xds: Merge ClusterResolverLB into CdsLB2
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

Updates io.grpc:grpc-netty-shaded from 1.78.0 to 1.79.0

Release notes

Sourced from io.grpc:grpc-netty-shaded's releases.

v1.79.0

API Changes

• core: Delete the never-used io.grpc.internal.ReadableBuffer.readBytes(ByteBuffer) (#12580) (738782fb0). This is deeply internal and not accessible, so shouldn’t impact anything. However, Apache Arrow Java uses reflection to access private fields; GH-939: Remove reflection for gRPC buffers is swapping to gRPC’s public zero-copy APIs

• opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587). Introduce an optional Predicate targetAttributeFilter to control how grpc.target is recorded in OpenTelemetry client metrics. When a filter is provided, targets rejected by the predicate are normalized to "other" to reduce grpc.target metric cardinality, while accepted targets are recorded as-is. If no filter is set, existing behavior is preserved. This change adds a new Builder API on GrpcOpenTelemetry to allow applications to configure the filter. 

Behavior Changes

• core: Convert AutoConfiguredLB to an actual LB (4bbf8eee5). This is an internal refactoring, but it does improve how errors are handled for broken binaries. Previously, not being able to load pick_first would result in a channel panic. Now it is handled as a regular load balancing error

• okhttp: Assert no pending streams before transport READY (#12566) (ed6d175fc). No pending streams should exist when the transport transitions to READY. This PR adds an assertion to help verify this invariant.

Bug Fixes

• core: PickFirstLB should not return a subchannel during CONNECTING (228fc8ecd). Pick-first in grpc-java has behaved this way since it was created, and it was of no consequence. However, now there are some load balancing policies (mainly RLS) that will do a pick() and hope the result to be reasonably accurate for metrics.

Improvements

• core: Improve DEADLINE_EXCEEDED message for CallCreds delays (ead532b39). Previously the error message contained “buffered_nanos” and “waiting_for_connection” for connection delays. However, we discovered the same strings were also used if waiting on CallCredentials. Now you’ll see details like “connecting_and_lb_delay”, “call_credentials_delay”, and “was_still_waiting”.

• opentelemetry: Add Android API checking (a9f73f4c0). Previously we assumed OpenTelemetry support would not be used on Android. It did happen to be compatible with Android, but since OpenTelemetry does have some Android support, we now have a check that it remains compatible

• core: Catch Errors when calling complex config parsing code (a535ed799). Error (and any other Throwable) is now caught and handled when parsing configuration (e.g., service config, xds). This will cause such failures to be handled gracefully instead of panicking the channel

• core: Implement LoadBalancer.Helper.createOobChannel() with the internals of createResolvingOobChannel() (3915d029c). This API is only expected to be relevant to the gRPC-LB lookaside load balancer, and is not believed to have behavior changes. Out-of-band channel had been implemented with its own stripped-down Channel without load balancing. Reimplementing using the resolving oob channel makes it a full-fledged channel and reduces the burden when integrating new features and allows us to have a ManagedChannelBuilder to use with efforts like gRFC A110: Child Channel Options.

• xds: Implement the proactive connection logic in RingHashLoadBalancer as outlined in gRFC A61 (#12596). Previously, the Java implementation only initialized child balancers when a ring-chosen endpoint was in TRANSIENT_FAILURE during a picker's pickSubchannel call. This PR adds the missing logic: when a child balancer reports TRANSIENT_FAILURE, the LoadBalancer now proactively initializes the first available IDLE child if no other children are currently connecting or ready.

This ensures a backup subchannel starts warming up immediately outside the RPC flow, reducing failover latency and improving overall resilience. This behavior was previously present but was inadvertently lost after #10610.

• api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602) (f65127cf7) Experimental RFC 3986 target URI parsing mode (disabled by default)

New Features

• opentelemetry: Actual reason for the disconnects in subchannel metrics(6b2f7580c), completing the remaining work in gRFC A96: OTel metrics for Subchannels

Dependencies 

• protobuf: Upgrade Bazel protobuf to 33.1 (#12553) (b61a8f49c) and load java_proto_library from the protobuf repo (c7f3cdbc3)

• protobuf: Fix build with Bazel 9 by upgrading bazel_jar_jar and grpc-proto versions (#12569)

• Upgrade dependencies (#12588) (6422092e3) Netty to 4.1.130, error-prone annotations to 2.45.0, google-auth-library to 1.41.0, tomcat-embed-core9 to 9.0.113, tomcat-embed-core to 10.1.50, opentelemetry to 1.57.0, jetty-ee10-servlet to 12.1.5, jetty-http2-server to 12.1.5, google-cloud-logging to 3.23.9, google-auth to 1.41.0, proto-google-common-protos to 2.63.2.

... (truncated)

Commits

• 381593f Bump version to 1.79.0
• f93ecb0 Update README etc to reference 1.79.0
• f6d140f xds: Normalize weights before combining endpoint and locality weights
• c589bef core: clarify dns javadoc/test about trailing path segments
• 65596ae core: Move 4 test cases from DnsNameResolverTest to DnsNameResolverProviderTe...
• 59a64f0 core: Use FlagResetRule to set/restore system properties in DnsNameResolverTe...
• c5f5ee0 opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587)
• f65127c api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602)
• a535ed7 Catch Errors when calling complex parsing code
• ebb9420 xds: Merge ClusterResolverLB into CdsLB2
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

Updates io.grpc:grpc-stub from 1.78.0 to 1.79.0

Release notes

Sourced from io.grpc:grpc-stub's releases.

v1.79.0

API Changes

• core: Delete the never-used io.grpc.internal.ReadableBuffer.readBytes(ByteBuffer) (#12580) (738782fb0). This is deeply internal and not accessible, so shouldn’t impact anything. However, Apache Arrow Java uses reflection to access private fields; GH-939: Remove reflection for gRPC buffers is swapping to gRPC’s public zero-copy APIs

• opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587). Introduce an optional Predicate targetAttributeFilter to control how grpc.target is recorded in OpenTelemetry client metrics. When a filter is provided, targets rejected by the predicate are normalized to "other" to reduce grpc.target metric cardinality, while accepted targets are recorded as-is. If no filter is set, existing behavior is preserved. This change adds a new Builder API on GrpcOpenTelemetry to allow applications to configure the filter. 

Behavior Changes

• core: Convert AutoConfiguredLB to an actual LB (4bbf8eee5). This is an internal refactoring, but it does improve how errors are handled for broken binaries. Previously, not being able to load pick_first would result in a channel panic. Now it is handled as a regular load balancing error

• okhttp: Assert no pending streams before transport READY (#12566) (ed6d175fc). No pending streams should exist when the transport transitions to READY. This PR adds an assertion to help verify this invariant.

Bug Fixes

• core: PickFirstLB should not return a subchannel during CONNECTING (228fc8ecd). Pick-first in grpc-java has behaved this way since it was created, and it was of no consequence. However, now there are some load balancing policies (mainly RLS) that will do a pick() and hope the result to be reasonably accurate for metrics.

Improvements

• core: Improve DEADLINE_EXCEEDED message for CallCreds delays (ead532b39). Previously the error message contained “buffered_nanos” and “waiting_for_connection” for connection delays. However, we discovered the same strings were also used if waiting on CallCredentials. Now you’ll see details like “connecting_and_lb_delay”, “call_credentials_delay”, and “was_still_waiting”.

• opentelemetry: Add Android API checking (a9f73f4c0). Previously we assumed OpenTelemetry support would not be used on Android. It did happen to be compatible with Android, but since OpenTelemetry does have some Android support, we now have a check that it remains compatible

• core: Catch Errors when calling complex config parsing code (a535ed799). Error (and any other Throwable) is now caught and handled when parsing configuration (e.g., service config, xds). This will cause such failures to be handled gracefully instead of panicking the channel

• core: Implement LoadBalancer.Helper.createOobChannel() with the internals of createResolvingOobChannel() (3915d029c). This API is only expected to be relevant to the gRPC-LB lookaside load balancer, and is not believed to have behavior changes. Out-of-band channel had been implemented with its own stripped-down Channel without load balancing. Reimplementing using the resolving oob channel makes it a full-fledged channel and reduces the burden when integrating new features and allows us to have a ManagedChannelBuilder to use with efforts like gRFC A110: Child Channel Options.

• xds: Implement the proactive connection logic in RingHashLoadBalancer as outlined in gRFC A61 (#12596). Previously, the Java implementation only initialized child balancers when a ring-chosen endpoint was in TRANSIENT_FAILURE during a picker's pickSubchannel call. This PR adds the missing logic: when a child balancer reports TRANSIENT_FAILURE, the LoadBalancer now proactively initializes the first available IDLE child if no other children are currently connecting or ready.

This ensures a backup subchannel starts warming up immediately outside the RPC flow, reducing failover latency and improving overall resilience. This behavior was previously present but was inadvertently lost after #10610.

• api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602) (f65127cf7) Experimental RFC 3986 target URI parsing mode (disabled by default)

New Features

• opentelemetry: Actual reason for the disconnects in subchannel metrics(6b2f7580c), completing the remaining work in gRFC A96: OTel metrics for Subchannels

Dependencies 

• protobuf: Upgrade Bazel protobuf to 33.1 (#12553) (b61a8f49c) and load java_proto_library from the protobuf repo (c7f3cdbc3)

• protobuf: Fix build with Bazel 9 by upgrading bazel_jar_jar and grpc-proto versions (#12569)

• Upgrade dependencies (#12588) (6422092e3) Netty to 4.1.130, error-prone annotations to 2.45.0, google-auth-library to 1.41.0, tomcat-embed-core9 to 9.0.113, tomcat-embed-core to 10.1.50, opentelemetry to 1.57.0, jetty-ee10-servlet to 12.1.5, jetty-http2-server to 12.1.5, google-cloud-logging to 3.23.9, google-auth to 1.41.0, proto-google-common-protos to 2.63.2.

... (truncated)

Commits

• 381593f Bump version to 1.79.0
• f93ecb0 Update README etc to reference 1.79.0
• f6d140f xds: Normalize weights before combining endpoint and locality weights
• c589bef core: clarify dns javadoc/test about trailing path segments
• 65596ae core: Move 4 test cases from DnsNameResolverTest to DnsNameResolverProviderTe...
• 59a64f0 core: Use FlagResetRule to set/restore system properties in DnsNameResolverTe...
• c5f5ee0 opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587)
• f65127c api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602)
• a535ed7 Catch Errors when calling complex parsing code
• ebb9420 xds: Merge ClusterResolverLB into CdsLB2
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

Updates io.grpc:grpc-netty-shaded from 1.78.0 to 1.79.0

Release notes

Sourced from io.grpc:grpc-netty-shaded's releases.

v1.79.0

API Changes

• core: Delete the never-used io.grpc.internal.ReadableBuffer.readBytes(ByteBuffer) (#12580) (738782fb0). This is deeply internal and not accessible, so shouldn’t impact anything. However, Apache Arrow Java uses reflection to access private fields; GH-939: Remove reflection for gRPC buffers is swapping to gRPC’s public zero-copy APIs

• opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587). Introduce an optional Predicate targetAttributeFilter to control how grpc.target is recorded in OpenTelemetry client metrics. When a filter is provided, targets rejected by the predicate are normalized to "other" to reduce grpc.target metric cardinality, while accepted targets are recorded as-is. If no filter is set, existing behavior is preserved. This change adds a new Builder API on GrpcOpenTelemetry to allow applications to configure the filter. 

Behavior Changes

• core: Convert AutoConfiguredLB to an actual LB (4bbf8eee5). This is an internal refactoring, but it does improve how errors are handled for broken binaries. Previously, not being able to load pick_first would result in a channel panic. Now it is handled as a regular load balancing error

• okhttp: Assert no pending streams before transport READY (#12566) (ed6d175fc). No pending streams should exist when the transport transitions to READY. This PR adds an assertion to help verify this invariant.

Bug Fixes

• core: PickFirstLB should not return a subchannel during CONNECTING (228fc8ecd). Pick-first in grpc-java has behaved this way since it was created, and it was of no consequence. However, now there are some load balancing policies (mainly RLS) that will do a pick() and hope the result to be reasonably accurate for metrics.

Improvements

• core: Improve DEADLINE_EXCEEDED message for CallCreds delays (ead532b39). Previously the error message contained “buffered_nanos” and “waiting_for_connection” for connection delays. However, we discovered the same strings were also used if waiting on CallCredentials. Now you’ll see details like “connecting_and_lb_delay”, “call_credentials_delay”, and “was_still_waiting”.

• opentelemetry: Add Android API checking (a9f73f4c0). Previously we assumed OpenTelemetry support would not be used on Android. It did happen to be compatible with Android, but since OpenTelemetry does have some Android support, we now have a check that it remains compatible

• core: Catch Errors when calling complex config parsing code (a535ed799). Error (and any other Throwable) is now caught and handled when parsing configuration (e.g., service config, xds). This will cause such failures to be handled gracefully instead of panicking the channel

• core: Implement LoadBalancer.Helper.createOobChannel() with the internals of createResolvingOobChannel() (3915d029c). This API is only expected to be relevant to the gRPC-LB lookaside load balancer, and is not believed to have behavior changes. Out-of-band channel had been implemented with its own stripped-down Channel without load balancing. Reimplementing using the resolving oob channel makes it a full-fledged channel and reduces the burden when integrating new features and allows us to have a ManagedChannelBuilder to use with efforts like gRFC A110: Child Channel Options.

• xds: Implement the proactive connection logic in RingHashLoadBalancer as outlined in gRFC A61 (#12596). Previously, the Java implementation only initialized child balancers when a ring-chosen endpoint was in TRANSIENT_FAILURE during a picker's pickSubchannel call. This PR adds the missing logic: when a child balancer reports TRANSIENT_FAILURE, the LoadBalancer now proactively initializes the first available IDLE child if no other children are currently connecting or ready.

This ensures a backup subchannel starts warming up immediately outside the RPC flow, reducing failover latency and improving overall resilience. This behavior was previously present but was inadvertently lost after #10610.

• api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602) (f65127cf7) Experimental RFC 3986 target URI parsing mode (disabled by default)

New Features

• opentelemetry: Actual reason for the disconnects in subchannel metrics(6b2f7580c), completing the remaining work in gRFC A96: OTel metrics for Subchannels

Dependencies 

• protobuf: Upgrade Bazel protobuf to 33.1 (#12553) (b61a8f49c) and load java_proto_library from the protobuf repo (c7f3cdbc3)

• protobuf: Fix build with Bazel 9 by upgrading bazel_jar_jar and grpc-proto versions (#12569)

• Upgrade dependencies (#12588) (6422092e3) Netty to 4.1.130, error-prone annotations to 2.45.0, google-auth-library to 1.41.0, tomcat-embed-core9 to 9.0.113, tomcat-embed-core to 10.1.50, opentelemetry to 1.57.0, jetty-ee10-servlet to 12.1.5, jetty-http2-server to 12.1.5, google-cloud-logging to 3.23.9, google-auth to 1.41.0, proto-google-common-protos to 2.63.2.

... (truncated)

Commits

• 381593f Bump version to 1.79.0
• f93ecb0 Update README etc to reference 1.79.0
• f6d140f xds: Normalize weights before combining endpoint and locality weights
• c589bef core: clarify dns javadoc/test about trailing path segments
• 65596ae core: Move 4 test cases from DnsNameResolverTest to DnsNameResolverProviderTe...
• 59a64f0 core: Use FlagResetRule to set/restore system properties in DnsNameResolverTe...
• c5f5ee0 opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587)
• f65127c api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602)
• a535ed7 Catch Errors when calling complex parsing code
• ebb9420 xds: Merge ClusterResolverLB into CdsLB2
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

Updates build.buf.protoc-gen-validate:pgv-java-stub from 1.3.0 to 1.3.3

Updates com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java from 4.33.5 to 4.34.0

Commits

• See full diff in compare view

Updates com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java-util from 4.33.5 to 4.34.0

Updates com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java-util from 4.33.5 to 4.34.0

Updates com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-common-protos from 2.65.0 to 2.66.0

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v2.66.0

2.66.0 (2026-01-23)

Features

• Upgrade protobuf runtime and gen code to 4.33.x (#4000) (#4074) (3e37376)

Dependencies

• Downgrade opentelemetry to 1.51.0 (#4075) (cf65482)
• update auth library to 1.42.0 (#4087) (ad9ee07)
• update googleapis/java-cloud-bom digest to ef3656d (#3630) (790bcf0)
• update http-client to 2.1.0 (#4086) (d8bc8f5)

v2.65.1

2.65.1 (2026-01-13)

Documentation

• Update docs for GoogleCredentialsProvider#setScopesToApply (#4057) (0a9962f)

Changelog

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2.66.0 (2026-01-23)

Features

• Upgrade protobuf runtime and gen code to 4.33.x (#4000) (#4074) (3e37376)

Dependencies

• Downgrade opentelemetry to 1.51.0 (#4075) (cf65482)
• update auth library to 1.42.0 (#4087) (ad9ee07)
• update googleapis/java-cloud-bom digest to ef3656d (#3630) (790bcf0)
• update http-client to 2.1.0 (#4086) (d8bc8f5)

2.65.1 (2026-01-13)

Documentation

• Update docs for GoogleCredentialsProvider#setScopesToApply (#4057) (0a9962f)

Commits

• 29cbd0a chore(main): release 2.66.0 (#4072)
• ad9ee07 deps: update auth library to 1.42.0 (#4087)
• 9cf0352 tests: Add java-showcase-3.25.8. (#4088)
• 3db61c2 tests: Add java-showcase-3.21.0 (#4081)
• d8bc8f5 deps: update http-client to 2.1.0 (#4086)
• 7934c24 chore(deps): update upper bound dependencies file (#4083)
• 28cc591 tests: Add protobuf 3.x compatibility tests with a third party library tensor...
• 22446d5 chore: update googleapis commit at Wed Jan 21 02:42:16 UTC 2026 (#4073)
• 3e37376 feat: Upgrade protobuf runtime and gen code to 4.33.x (#4000) (#4074)
• cf65482 deps: Downgrade opentelemetry to 1.51.0 (#4075)
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