Announcements

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Bazel

• Warn on --strict_public_imports violations by default in Bazel rules (ea46150)
• Fix prebuilt protoc toolchain resolution and add local prebuilt testing. (bf71216)

Compiler

• Warn on --strict_public_imports violations by default in Bazel rules (ea46150)
• Fix prebuilt protoc toolchain resolution and add local prebuilt testing. (bf71216)

Python

• Warn in Python when parsing JSON booleans into float/double and enum fields. (a39902e)
• Fix Ubuntu 26.04 GitHub Actions failures of IANA identifiers in Python well-known types. (2185127)

PHP

• Log warning in PHP when parsing JSON non-array into repeated fields. (1d0b592)
• Log warning in PHP when parsing JSON non-numeric values into float/double fields. (61852d8)

Ruby

• 37.x branch uses version.rb (003a5f7)

Other

• Configure BCR Cloudflare module mirror in .bazelrc to prevent www.lua.org download timeouts. (a538557)
• Ci(objectivec): Warm up CoreSimulatorService before running iOS Xcode tests (f36398e)
• Pin the Linux CMake 32-bit job to ubuntu-24.04 to avoid Docker seccomp blocking socketcall on Ubuntu 26.04. (808af0c)