Dependencies

• Minimum supported Go version is now 1.24 (#8509)
  • Special Thanks: @kevinGC

Bug Fixes

• client: Return status INTERNAL when a server sends zero response messages for a unary or client-streaming RPC. (#8523)
• client: Fail RPCs with status INTERNAL instead of UNKNOWN upon receiving http headers with status 1xx and END_STREAM flag set. (#8518)
  • Special Thanks: @vinothkumarr227
• pick_first: Fix race condition that could cause pick_first to get stuck in IDLE state on backend address change. (#8615)

New Features

• credentials: Add credentials/jwt package providing file-based JWT PerRPCCredentials (A97). (#8431)
  • Special Thanks: @dimpavloff

Performance Improvements

• client: Improve HTTP/2 header size estimate to reduce re-allocations. (#8547)
• encoding/proto: Avoid redundant message size calculation when marshaling. (#8569)
  • Special Thanks: @rs-unity