Protocol Buffers v25.9

Announcements

• Protobuf News may include additional announcements or pre-announcements for upcoming changes.

Java

• Avoid toBigIntegerExact in JsonFormat to avoid degenerate parse behavior in the face of large exponents. (#26435) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/f125aa53d9fee9137411b4fe5e25270d36139fab)
• Switch the pre22 warning to use CopyOnWriteArraySet. (#23976) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/9822fb584f57dad3d8781d8cfb6013954bc4b2ac)

Python

• [numpy] Fix breakage in users of Python protobufs under NumPy 2.3rc1. (#22172) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/a4508d4da5d82ac45692ea5a74bd7e2f922391f8)

Other

• Remove python from UPB / Windows tests (#26497) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/73be936bc527069312519d9d56f5ba95857c92ed)
• Fix failing tests in 25.x (#25198) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/2418c40990fd578444f1794e856daedefd298db6)
• Change setup-ruby and add new xcode version to build (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/9717aac2633e37135f57767061e1b29b4d4bb6b7)
• Protobuf: update php from macos-13 to macos-15-intel (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/1d18bbd02da912a7e52171dafe783cafbccb4415)
• Update GitHub Actions to use macOS-14 (again). (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/3c282a4ecac1f060c58e85afa9600413e3a9db24)
• Update GitHub Actions to use macOS-14. (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/2e1a0ccf07c09d6160d5b3c96787409a2162a942)
• Disable php tests (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/56f2fd2dd0f406072d168419f6e0afcc548a6050)
• Fix merge conflict annotations (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/b7abd06d7ba6afd5e5c3e4c1d678584af1dc1f52)
• Don't ignore platform requirements (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/a53de52c69bbc8c5552d89a23330eba3b566d4b4)
• Upgrade setup-php to speed up PHP tests (#24408) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/0f2128fe3efcad71dd631f4c63cab19e52243fb1)
• Extend gencode compatibility support back to 3.20.0 (#22424) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/6fbcb8724c63b92456d124344d4b16bcbaa8534b)
• Update github major version tags to be formatted v..<MI… (#22359) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/974b235a71635d5a6c9a89614c5c781aea1307c7)
• Drop windows-2019 runners from CI (#22185) (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/9910104d6bb80d3cecc695b3b4ffaa299cb28337)