Announcements

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Compiler

Ship all option dependencies to plugins along with regular ones. (34d6c85)
Unify plugin and built-in generators to use request/response interface (b98f6ee)
Disable symbol visibility enforcement by default in C++ runtime (aad0daa)

Fix handling of optional dependencies in java generator. (892e0d5)
Restore Protobuf Java extension modifiers in gencode that were previously removed in 7bff169 (4a18be6)
Restore ABI compatibility for extension methods which was previously (knowingly) broken with 4.x: 94a2a44 (501f4a5)
Cherrypick test improvements (d365736)
Fix handling of optional dependencies in java generator. (9325480)
Ship all option dependencies to plugins along with regular ones. (34d6c85)
Unify plugin and built-in generators to use request/response interface (b98f6ee)