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+2014-12-01 version 3.0.0-alpha-1 (C++/Java):
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+
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+ General
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+ * Introduced Protocol Buffers language version 3 (aka proto3).
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+
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+ When protobuf was initially opensourced it implemented Protocol Buffers
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+ language version 2 (aka proto2), which is why the version number
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+ started from v2.0.0. From v3.0.0, a new language version (proto3) is
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+ introduced while the old version (proto2) will continue to be supported.
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+
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+ The main intent of introducing proto3 is to clean up protobuf before
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+ pushing the language as the foundation of Google's new API platform.
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+ In proto3, the language is simplified, both for ease of use and to
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+ make it available in a wider range of programming languages. At the
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+ same time a few features are added to better support common idioms
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+ found in APIs.
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+
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+ The following are the main new features in language version 3:
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+
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+ 1. Removal of field presence logic for primitive value fields, removal
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+ of required fields, and removal of default values. This makes proto3
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+ significantly easier to implement with open struct representations,
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+ as in languages like Android Java, Objective C, or Go.
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+ 2. Removal of unknown fields.
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+ 3. Removal of extensions, which are instead replaced by a new standard
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+ type called Any.
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+ 4. Fix semantics for unknown enum values.
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+ 5. Addition of maps.
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+ 6. Addition of a small set of standard types for representation of time,
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+ dynamic data, etc.
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+ 7. A well-defined encoding in JSON as an alternative to binary proto
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+ encoding.
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+
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+ This release (v3.0.0-alpha-1) includes partial proto3 support for C++ and
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+ Java. Items 6 (well-known types) and 7 (JSON format) in the above feature
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+ list are not impelmented.
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+
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+ A new notion "syntax" is introduced to specify whether a .proto file
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+ uses proto2 or proto3:
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+
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+ // foo.proto
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+ syntax = "proto3";
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+ message Bar {...}
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+
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+ If omitted, the protocol compiler will generate a warning and "proto2" will
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+ be used as the default. This warning will be turned into an error in a
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+ future release.
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+
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+ We recommend that new Protocol Buffers users use proto3. However, we do not
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+ generally recommend that existing users migrate from proto2 from proto3 due
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+ to API incompatibility, and we will continue to support proto2 for a long
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+ time.
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+
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+ * Added support for map fields (implemented in C++/Java for both proto2 and
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+ proto3).
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+
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+ Map fields can be declared using the following syntax:
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+
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+ message Foo {
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+ map<string, string> values = 1;
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+ }
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+
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+ Data of a map field will be stored in memory as an unordered map and it
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+ can be accessed through generated accessors.
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+
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+ C++
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+ * Added arena allocation support (for both proto2 and proto3).
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+
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+ Profiling shows memory allocation and deallocation constitutes a significant
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+ fraction of CPU-time spent in protobuf code and arena allocation is a
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+ technique introduced to reduce this cost. With arena allocation, new
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+ objects will be allocated from a large piece of preallocated memory and
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+ deallocation of these objects is almost free. Early adoption shows 20% to
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+ 50% improvement in some Google binaries.
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+
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+ To enable arena support, add the following option to your .proto file:
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+
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+ option cc_enable_arenas = true;
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+
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+ Protocol compiler will generate additional code to make the generated
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+ message classes work with arenas. This does not change the existing API
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+ of protobuf messages and does not affect wire format. Your existing code
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+ should continue to work after adding this option. In the future we will
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+ make this option enabled by default.
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+
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+ To actually take advantage of arena allocation, you need to use the arena
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+ APIs when creating messages. A quick example of using the arena API:
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+
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+ {
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+ google::protobuf::Arena arena;
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+ // Allocate a protobuf message in the arena.
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+ MyMessage* message = Arena::CreateMessage<MyMessage>(&arena);
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+ // All submessages will be allocated in the same arena.
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+ if (!message->ParseFromString(data)) {
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+ // Deal with malformed input data.
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+ }
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+ // Must not delete the message here. It will be deleted automatically
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+ // when the arena is destroyed.
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+ }
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+
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+ Currently arena does not work with map fields. Enabling arena in a .proto
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+ file containing map fields will result in compile errors in the generated
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+ code. This will be addressed in a future release.
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+
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2014-10-20 version 2.6.1:
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C++
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