v5.1.4

Release notes

• Deprecated protocDigest parameter for removal in the future. It is now replaced with <digest> within a PathProtocDistribution or UriProtocDistribution object, which makes this API consistent with the Protoc plugin API.

  • Users may continue to use the current mechanism until the next major version but are advised to update their usages where possible.
  • The next major version will not support digests on Maven-based protoc distributions, as this is redundant functionality.
  • Documentation examples have been updated to reflect the change.
  • For example:

  <configuration>
    <protoc kind="url">
      <url>https://...</url>
      <digest>sha1:a927271a34eab2353662e2ec6f0686553034821a</digest>
    </protoc>
  </configuration>

• Added missing digest verification functionality for path based protoc plugins.

• Optimised digest generation and decoding to utilise SIMD functionality within the JDK. This reduces both overhead and memory consumption in complex builds.

• Improved control flow for dependency resolution.

• Removed noisy logging during plexus configuration merging.

Other changes

• Build on Maven 3.9.15.
• Dependency updates, as usual.