gRPC Swift 1.8.0

Notable Changes

This release adds support for async/await. Generated code now includes two flavours of clients and services:

1. a "NIO" variant which existing users will already be familiar with, and
2. a new "async" variant using Swift's concurrency features.

The "async" variants require Swift 5.6 or newer.

As part of this change, and to support Sendable, the previously generated "NIO" variant clients (which are class based) have been deprecated. They have been replaced with struct based equivalents.

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SemVer Minor

• Add Swift Concurrency flavoured clients and services (#1378, #1379, #1383, #1384, #1386, #1394, #1396, #1403, #1404, #1407, #1410, #1411, #1413, #1414, #1415, #1419, #1422, #1423, #1424, #1426, #1427, #1428, #1429, #1430, #1433, #1434, #1435)
• Allow client/server to be initialised with a connected socket (#1385, patch credit to @jvimal-eg)
• Raise minimum supported Swift version to 5.4 (#1397, #1406)

SemVer Patch

• Increase the minimum swift-protobuf version to 1.19.0 (#1376)
• ConnectionPool Waiter should store its timeout task (#1380)
• Update formatter (#1381)
• Update version to 1.8.0 (#1437)

Other Changes

• Add very basic documentation on how to enable compression (#1388, patch credit to @Lutzifer)
• Update Github Actions version to v3 (#1395, patch credit to @Gumichocopengin8)
• Migrate speech to text example app to swift package manager & fix compile errors (#1402, patch credit to @Jake-Prickett)
• Various to CI updates (#1377, #1432, #1390)
• Make all tests discoverable on Linux (#1399, #1431)

gRPC Swift 1.7.3

SemVer Patch

• Ignore state machine inputs in unexpected states (#1374)

Other Changes

• Update allocation limits (#1375)

gRPC Swift 1.7.2

SemVer Patch

• protoc-gen-grpc-swift: FileHandle for stdin, stdout (#1361, patch credit to @lrewega)
• Better handle client sent GOAWAY frames
• Release stream callback, once the stream has finished (#1363)
• Bump version number to 1.7.2 (#1372)

Other Changes

• Enable CI for Swift 5.6 (#1370)

gRPC Swift 1.7.1-async-await.2

This release brings the 1.6.0-async-await branch up-to-date with the 1.7.1 release, and fixes an issue with the gRPC Swift 1.7.1-async-await.1 tag, which points to the wrong branch.

Breaking Changes

• Use requests/requestStream and responses/responseStream consistently. (#1320)
• Use correct casing when making async calls (#1365)

Other Changes

• Generate static service metadata (#1322)
• Allow end stream to be dropped in the async server handler (#1323)
• Relax availability range and compiler requirements (#1364)

gRPC Swift 1.7.1-async-await.1

This release brings the 1.6.0-async-await branch up-to-date with the 1.7.1 release.

Breaking Changes

• Use requests/requestStream and responses/responseStream consistently. (#1320)
• Use correct casing when making async calls (#1365)

Other Changes

• Generate static service metadata (#1322)
• Allow end stream to be dropped in the async server handler (#1323)
• Relax availability range and compiler requirements (#1364)

gRPC Swift 1.7.1

SemVer Patch

• Update minimum HTTP/2 version (#1359)
• Bump version number to 1.7.1 (#1360)

gRPC Swift 1.7.0

SemVer Minor

• Add cause to GRPCStatus.processingError for uncaught errors (#1356)

SemVer Patch

• Tolerate channel error when connecting (#1349)
• Use trace log level for buffering logs (#1352)
• Add cause to GRPCStatus.description if it is non-nil (#1357)
• Bump version number to 1.7.0 (#1358)

Other Changes

• Update allocation counter limits (#1347)
• Add more flexibility to perf tests (#1354)
• Remove perf tests for 5.2 (#1355)

gRPC Swift 1.6.1

SemVer Patch

• Delay closing until the next loop tick (#1326)
• Propagate request ID for channel pool (#1328)
• Bump version number to 1.6.1 (#1332)

Other Changes

• Add note to README about installing plugins via Homebrew (#1318, patch credit to @El-Moatasem)
• Update Cocoapods for 1.6.0 (#1315)
• Deflake zero length write tests (#1317)

gRPC Swift 1.6.0-async-await.1

This release brings the 1.4.1-async-await.3 release up-to-date with the 1.6.0 release.

Other Changes

• Extend interoperability tests to use async provider (#1312)

gRPC Swift 1.6.0

SemVer Minor

• Allow clients to shutdown gracefully (#1308)

SemVer Patch

• Add 'cause' to more transformed statuses (#1306)
• Add tests to verify mTLS behaviour (#1307)
• Use more accurate imports (#1309)
• Remove client didSet state transition check (#1310)
• Allow gRPC to be built without NIOSSL (#1311)
• Bump version number to 1.6.0 (#1314)

Other Changes

• Upload linux release artifacts (#1295, patch credit to @FranzBusch)
• Update Cocoapods for 1.5.0 (#1296)
• Use atomics for counting outstanding RPCs in the QPS benchmark (#1298)
• Update CI for 5.5 (#1313)