New Features

Add an optional implementation of streams using generics (Experimental) (#7057)
- The new use_generic_stream_experimental=true option will cause the gRPC codegen to use prebuilt generic types to implement client and server stream objects, rather than generating new types and implementations for every RPC method. We intend to transition this to the default behavior in the next release. Please test it and provide any feedback.
- Special Thanks: @aarongable
Copy service comments to interfaces in generated code (#7243)
- Special Thanks: @silves-xiang
Generated code includes static method gRPC call options for integration with the upcoming OpenTelemetry metrics support (#6960)

Dependencies

Update google.golang.org/protobuf dependency to v1.34.1 to address CVE-2024-24786 (#7274)