Protocol Buffers v29.6

Announcements

• Protobuf News may include additional announcements or pre-announcements for upcoming changes.

C++

• Fix warning about implicit capture of 'this' with '=' (#22083) (afede60)

Python

• Fix Any recursion depth bypass in Python json_format.ParseDict (#25239) (#25587) (5ebddcb)
• Extend gencode compatibility support back to 3.20.0 (#22423) (a532f52)
• [numpy] Fix breakage in users of Python protobufs under NumPy 2.3rc1. (#22171) (c6c8a17)

PHP

• Bump version dependencies on phpunit/phpunit to ">=10.5.62 <11.0.0" (#25589) (f340323)
• Protobuf: update php from macos-13 to macos-15-intel (#24776) (1ca37de)
• Upgrade setup-php to speed up PHP tests (#24405) (bc64ed9)

Python

• Don't run python tests on windows, which aren't supported anyway (#25598) (cbfc703)

Other

• Don't ignore platform requirements (87743f6)
• Update github major version tags to be formatted v..<MI… (#22358) (09082d4)
• Drop windows-2019 runners from CI (#22186) (39cd25b)