Announcements

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Bazel

• Fix: cc_toolchain should prefer protoc when prebuilt flag is flipped. (#25168) (7b30360)
• Locked down visibility of the new flags and config settings. (04ca1b7)
• Feat(bazel): wire up prebuilt protoc toolchain (#24115) (aeaede0)

Compiler

• Create editions test_utils to fix existing brittle tests in command_line_interface_unittest and code_generator_unittest. (cb0a8c5)
• Add edition unstable for development work. (44e090c)
• Add conformance test for edition unstable (d167dd0)

C++

• Add edition unstable for development work. (44e090c)
• Add conformance test for edition unstable (d167dd0)

Java

• Add conformance test for edition unstable (d167dd0)
• Correctly apply JSON recursion limit when parsing an Any-of-Any. (94c7f73)

Csharp

• Add conformance test for edition unstable (d167dd0)

Python

• Add conformance test for edition unstable (d167dd0)
• Automated rollback of commit 38ca2d3. (184b5e8)

UPB (Python/PHP/Ruby C-Extension)

• Add conformance test for edition unstable (d167dd0)
• Fix unused parameter warnings. (cd0cb21)

Other

• Don't ignore platform requirements (aeedbc6)
• Update GitHub Actions to use macOS-14 (again). (f7b18f8)
• Delete redundant ARM tests (d4e7a81)
• Protobuf: update php from macos-13 to macos-15-intel (9027d6b)
• Update GitHub Actions to use macOS-14. (f0907f3)