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<details><summary>2.61.1-SNAPSHOT</summary>

### Updating meta-information for bleeding-edge SNAPSHOT release.
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Attempt to generate a `GEMINI.md` file from the different README files
located throughout the repo.

This is intended to be a first draft and new information and entries can
be added and iterated upon.

Following https://github.com/google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli

Code is generated with `/setup-github`

Error:
```
Error: Can't find 'action.yml', 'action.yaml' or 'Dockerfile' under '/home/runner/work/sdk-platform-java/sdk-platform-java'. Did you forget to run actions/checkout before running your local action?
```

From
https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/actions/runs/16917097354/job/47933669808

See b/436286826 for more information

Example workflow run:
https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/actions/runs/16759125283/job/47449497271?pr=3877

## Sample run with upper-bounds file
Running locally: `./.github/scripts/test_dependency_compatibility.sh`

```
mvn verify -Penable-integration-tests -Dclirr.skip -Dcheckstyle.skip -Dfmt.skip -Denforcer.skip -Djavax.annotation-api.version=1.3.2 -Dgrpc.version=1.74.0 -Dgoogle.auth.version=1.37.1 -Dgoogle.http-client.version=1.47.1 -Dgson.version=2.13.1 -Dguava.version=33.4.8-jre -Dprotobuf.version=4.31.1 -Dopentelemetry.version=1.52.0 -Derrorprone.version=4.15.1 -Dj2objc-annotations.version=3.0.0 -Dthreetenbp.version=1.7.1 -Dslf4j.version=2.0.17 -Dgrpc-gcp.version=1.6.1 -Dgoogle.oauth-client.version=1.39.0 -Dgoogle.api-client.version=2.8.0 -Dthreeten-extra.version=1.8.0 -Dopencensus.version=0.31.0 -Dfindbugs.version=3.0.2 -Derrorprone.version=2.41.0 -Dcodec.version=1.19.0 -Dhttpcomponents.httpcore.version=4.4.16 -Dhttpcomponents.httpclient.version=4.5.14 -Dapache-httpclient-5.version=5.5 -Dapache-httpcore-5.version=5.3.4 -Dperfmark-api.version=0.27.0 -Dj2objc-annotations.version=3.0.0 -Dgoogle.cloud.opentelemetry.version=0.36.0 -Dopentelemetry-semconv.version=1.34.0 -Dflogger.version=0.9 -Darrow.version=18.3.0 -Ddev.cel.version=0.10.1 -Dcom.google.crypto.tink.version=1.18.0 -Dio.opentelemetry.contrib.opentelemetry-gcp-resources.version=1.48.0-alpha
```

## Expected error when using an incompatible Deps version
Running locally with Protobuf 4.26.0:
`./.github/scripts/test_dependency_compatibility.sh -l protobuf=4.26.0`

Results:
```
[ERROR] /Users/lawrenceqiu/IdeaProjects/sdk-platform-java/java-common-protos/proto-google-common-protos/src/main/java/com/google/api/OAuthRequirements.java:[65,42] cannot find symbol
[ERROR]   symbol:   class UnusedPrivateParameter
[ERROR]   location: class com.google.api.OAuthRequirements
[ERROR] /Users/lawrenceqiu/IdeaProjects/sdk-platform-java/java-common-protos/proto-google-common-protos/src/main/java/com/google/api/OAuthRequirements.java:[74,51] package com.google.protobuf.GeneratedMessageV3 does not exist
```

## Future
This does not cover binary or behavior compatibility issues. We plan on
using downstream unit and integration tests to test those
incompatibilities in a future date.

```
Error: Unable to process file command 'env' successfully.
Error:  format '[ERROR] Non-resolvable import POM: The following artifacts could not be resolved: com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies:pom:3.51.1-SNAPSHOT (absent): Could not find artifact com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies:pom:3.51.1-SNAPSHOT @ com.google.cloud:gapic-showcase-parent:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT, /home/runner/work/sdk-platform-java/sdk-platform-java/java-showcase/pom.xml, line 32, column 19'
```

Complaining about not being able to retrieve shared-deps

…iptors (#3874)

See b/416626151 for more information.

Problem: When the sampledToLocalTracing is set to false or not set, the
gRPC specific metrics have the `grpc.method` attribute defined as
`other` instead of the methodDescriptor's full name. This may be
confusing to customers who may expect to see the full gRPC method name.

High Level: This flag enables captures for specific method names to help
provide more detailed metrics. We do not expect any noticeable
performance impact from this change.

This does not impact the method name that is already properly captured
for Gax Metrics (e.g. Attempt Count, Operation Latency, etc).
Specifically, the use must be using grpc-java telemetry module and be
using
[GrpcOpenTelemetry](https://grpc.github.io/grpc-java/javadoc/io/grpc/opentelemetry/GrpcOpenTelemetry.html)
instead of
[OpenTelemetry](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/blob/main/api/all/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/api/OpenTelemetry.java).

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Updates to the following upper bound dependency versions:
```
j2objc-annotations=3.1
threetenbp=1.7.2
google.api-client=2.8.1
opentelemetry-semconv=1.34.0
```

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<details><summary>2.62.0</summary>

##
[2.62.0](v2.61.0...v2.62.0)
(2025-08-19)


### Features

* Set sampledToLocalTracing flag to true for all gRPC MethodDescriptors
([#3874](#3874))
([592e899](592e899))
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