Announcements

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Bazel

• Moved protocopt flag out of the cc dir, since it is not a c++-specific flag. (3db9fd1)
• Add support for bazel 9.x (#26201) (763c5da)

C++

• Updated CMake dependencies. (5583485)
• Add cc_proto_library for MessageSet in //src/google/protobuf/bridge (523a6a4)
• Add support for bazel 9.x (#26201) (763c5da)

Java

• Avoid toBigIntegerExact in JsonFormat to avoid degenerate parse behavior in the face of large exponents. (ab3d7f0)

Python

• Add support for bazel 9.x (#26201) (763c5da)

Other

• Fixed release_prep.sh script mkdir command to follow INTEGRITY_FILE location. (e700d7d)
• Second try at fixing the release_prep.sh file path! (#26097) (f5ccaf3)