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@xfxyjwf xfxyjwf released this 27 Aug 07:09
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Version 3.0.0-beta-1

Supported languages

  • C++/Java/Python/Ruby/Nano/Objective-C/C#

About Beta

  • This is the first beta release of protobuf v3.0.0. Not all languages
    have reached beta stage. Languages not marked as beta are still in
    alpha (i.e., be prepared for API breaking changes).

General

  • Proto3 JSON is supported in several languages (fully supported in C++
    and Java, partially supported in Ruby/C#). The JSON spec is defined in
    the proto3 language guide:

    https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json

    We will publish a more detailed spec to define the exact behavior of
    proto3-conformant JSON serializers and parsers. Until then, do not rely
    on specific behaviors of the implementation if it’s not documented in
    the above spec. More specifically, the behavior is not yet finalized for
    the following:

    • Parsing invalid JSON input (e.g., input with trailing commas).
    • Non-camelCase names in JSON input.
    • The same field appears multiple times in JSON input.
    • JSON arrays contain “null” values.
    • The message has unknown fields.

  • Proto3 now enforces strict UTF-8 checking. Parsing will fail if a string
    field contains non UTF-8 data.

C++ (Beta)

  • Introduced new utility functions/classes in the google/protobuf/util
    directory:
    • MessageDifferencer: compare two proto messages and report their
      differences.
    • JsonUtil: support converting protobuf binary format to/from JSON.
    • TimeUtil: utility functions to work with well-known types Timestamp
      and Duration.
    • FieldMaskUtil: utility functions to work with FieldMask.
  • Performance optimization of arena construction and destruction.
  • Bug fixes for arena and maps support.
  • Changed to use cmake for Windows Visual Studio builds.
  • Added Bazel support.

Java (Beta)

  • Introduced a new util package that will be distributed as a separate
    artifact in maven. It contains:
    • JsonFormat: convert proto messages to/from JSON.
    • TimeUtil: utility functions to work with Timestamp and Duration.
    • FieldMaskUtil: utility functions to work with FieldMask.
  • The static PARSER in each generated message is deprecated, and it will
    be removed in a future release. A static parser() getter is generated
    for each message type instead.
  • Performance optimizations for String fields serialization.
  • Performance optimizations for Lite runtime on Android:
    • Reduced allocations
    • Reduced method overhead after ProGuarding
    • Reduced code size after ProGuarding

Python (Alpha)

  • Removed legacy Python 2.5 support.
  • Moved to a single Python 2.x/3.x-compatible codebase, instead of using 2to3.
  • Fixed build/tests on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4.
    • Pure-Python works on all four.
    • Python/C++ implementation works on all but 3.4, due to changes in the
      Python/C++ API in 3.4.
  • Some preliminary work has been done to allow for multiple DescriptorPools
    with Python/C++.

Ruby (Alpha)

  • Many bugfixes:
    • fixed parsing/serialization of bytes, sint, sfixed types
    • other parser bugfixes
    • fixed memory leak affecting Ruby 2.2

JavaNano (Alpha)

  • JavaNano generated code now will be put in a nano package by default to
    avoid conflicts with Java generated code.

Objective-C (Alpha)

  • Added non-null markup to ObjC library. Requires SDK 8.4+ to build.
  • Many bugfixes:
    • Removed the class/enum filter.
    • Renamed some internal types to avoid conflicts with the well-known types
      protos.
    • Added missing support for parsing repeated primitive fields in packed or
      unpacked forms.
    • Added *Count for repeated and map<> fields to avoid auto-create when
      checking for them being set.

C# (Alpha)

  • Namespace changed to Google.Protobuf (and NuGet package will be named
    correspondingly).
  • Target platforms now .NET 4.5 and selected portable subsets only.
  • Removed lite runtime.
  • Reimplementation to use mutable message types.
  • Null references used to represent "no value" for message type fields.
  • Proto3 semantics supported; proto2 files are prohibited for C# codegen.
    Most proto3 features supported:
    • JSON formatting (a.k.a. serialization to JSON), including well-known
      types (except for Any).
    • Wrapper types mapped to nullable value types (or string/ByteString
      allowing nullability). JSON parsing is not supported yet.
    • maps
    • oneof
    • enum unknown value preservation
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