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Release 1.72.2

Bug Fixes

• client: restore support for NO_PROXY environment variable when connecting to locally-resolved addresses (case 2 from gRFC A1). (#8329)
• balancer/least_request: fix panic on resolver errors. (#8333)

Release 1.72.1

Bug Fixes

• client: HTTP Proxy connections are no longer attempted for addresses with non-TCP network types. (#8215)
• client: Fix bug that causes RPCs to fail with status INTERNAL instead of CANCELLED or DEADLINE_EXCEEDED when receiving a RST_STREAM frame in the middle of the gRPC message. (#8289)

Release 1.72.0

Dependencies

• Minimum supported Go version is now 1.23 (#8108)

API Changes

• resolver: add experimental AddressMapV2 with generics to ultimately replace AddressMap. Deprecate AddressMap for deletion (#8187)
• resolver: convert EndpointMap in place to use generics (#8189)

New Features

• xds: add grpc.xds_client.server_failure counter metric on xDS client to record connectivity errors (#8203)
• balancer/rls: allow maxAge to exceed 5 minutes if staleAge is set in the LB policy configuration (#8137)
• ringhash: implement gRFC A76 improvements. (#8159)
• pickfirst: The new pick first LB policy is made the default. The new LB policy implements the Happy Eyeballs algorithm. To disable the new policy set the environment variable GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_NEW_PICK_FIRST to false (case insensitive).

Bug Fixes

• xds: fix support for circuit breakers and load reporting in LOGICAL_DNS clusters (#8169, #8170)
• xds/cds: improve RPC error messages when resources are not found (#8122)
• balancer/priority: fix race that could leak balancers and goroutines during shutdown (#8095)
• stats/opentelemetry: fix trace attributes message sequence numbers to start from 0 (#8237)
• balancer/pickfirstleaf: fix panic if deprecated Address.Metadata field is set to a non-comparable value by ignoring the field (#8227)

Behavior Changes

• transport: make servers send an HTTP/2 RST_STREAM frame to cancel a stream when the deadline expires (#8071)

Documentation

• stats: clarify the expected sequence of events on a stats handler (#7885)
  • Special Thanks: @​RyanBlaney

Release 1.71.3

Bug Fixes

• client: restore support for NO_PROXY environment variable when connecting to locally-resolved addresses (case 2 from gRFC A1). (#8329)
• balancer/least_request: fix panic on resolver errors. (#8333)

Release 1.71.2

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• 6135a73 Change version to v1.72.2 (#8357)
• eef8c9c delegatingresolver: avoid proxy for resolved addresses in NO_PROXY env (#8329...
• 3b5fa74 balancer/least_request : Fix panic while handling resolver errors (#8333) (#8...
• edf643f Change version to v1.72.2-dev (#8326)
• 4cf3cf7 Change version to 1.72.1 (#8319)
• 537fe8d transport: Propagate status code on receiving RST_STREAM during message read ...
• f32eab3 cherry-pick #8302 and #8304 to v1.72.x branch (#8303)
• 7fcfc87 internal/delegatingresolver: avoid proxy if networktype of target address is ...
• ad1e120 Change version to 1.72.1-dev (#8219)
• a43eba6 Change version to 1.72.0 (#8218)
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