chore: [DevOps] bump the production-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 3 updates

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Bumps the production-minor-patch group with 3 updates in the / directory: commons-codec:commons-codec, org.checkerframework:checker-qual and io.grpc:grpc-bom.

Updates commons-codec:commons-codec from 1.20.0 to 1.21.0

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Apache Commons Codec 1.21.0 Release Notes

The Apache Commons Codec team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons Codec 1.21.0.

The Apache Commons Codec component contains encoders and decoders for formats such as Base16, Base32, Base64, digest, and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities.

This is a feature and maintenance release. Java 8 or later is required.

New features

• CODEC-333: Add distinct Base64 decoding for standard and URL-safe formats. Thanks to Aleksandr Beliakov, Gary Gregory.

Fixed Bugs

•         Fix oak leaf icon references in overview.html when running `mvn clean javadoc:javadoc`. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
  

•         Fix Apache RAT plugin console warnings. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
  

•         Fix malformed Javadoc comments. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
  

Changes

•         Bump org.apache.commons:commons-parent from 91 to 96 [#415](https://github.com/apache/commons-codec/issues/415), [#418](https://github.com/apache/commons-codec/issues/418). Thanks to Gary Gregory, Dependabot.
  

•         Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.20.0 to 2.21.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
  

•         Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.19.0 to 3.20.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Dependabot.
  

For complete information on Apache Commons Codec, including instructions on how to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Commons Codec website:

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-codec/

Download page: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-codec/download_codec.cgi

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Commits

• 91c4404 Prepare for the release candidate 1.21.0 RC1
• 21fe1d7 Prepare for the next release candidate
• d4ea4d0 Bump actions/checkout from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2
• e30b1f6 Bump actions/setup-java from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0
• 2e4891c Bump org.apache.commons:commons-parent from 95 to 96
• d02c003 Use a URL to a prettier page: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045
• 3c961b8 Checkstyle
• 99cf6b7 Javadoc and exception messages: "base 32" -> "Base32".
• 2df7b9a Javadoc and exception messages: "base 64" -> "Base64".
• 0643fdd Javadoc 8 doesn't know how to find this link
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Updates org.checkerframework:checker-qual from 3.53.0 to 3.53.1

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Checker Framework 3.53.1

Version 3.53.1 (2026-02-02)

Closed issues

#4858, #6141, #6620, #7360, #7388.

Changelog

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Version 3.53.1 (2026-02-02)

Closed issues

#4858, #6141, #6620, #7360, #7388.

Commits

• ef993ae new release 3.53.1
• c712fad Update release number.
• 18c01fc Prep for release.
• f8d4d55 Release script corrections
• 37845c8 Rename Shrinkable to CanShrink, to accommodate a future checker
• 77d27e7 Update cimg/base Docker tag to v2026.02 (#7470)
• e096e0d Update URLs
• 971a3f7 Use https URLs rather than http URLs
• c62acd1 Update Gradle to v9.3.1 (#7464)
• ce0eaa8 Add link to project list
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Updates io.grpc:grpc-bom from 1.78.0 to 1.79.0

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v1.79.0

API Changes

• core: Delete the never-used io.grpc.internal.ReadableBuffer.readBytes(ByteBuffer) (#12580) (738782fb0). This is deeply internal and not accessible, so shouldn’t impact anything. However, Apache Arrow Java uses reflection to access private fields; GH-939: Remove reflection for gRPC buffers is swapping to gRPC’s public zero-copy APIs

• opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587). Introduce an optional Predicate targetAttributeFilter to control how grpc.target is recorded in OpenTelemetry client metrics. When a filter is provided, targets rejected by the predicate are normalized to "other" to reduce grpc.target metric cardinality, while accepted targets are recorded as-is. If no filter is set, existing behavior is preserved. This change adds a new Builder API on GrpcOpenTelemetry to allow applications to configure the filter. 

Behavior Changes

• core: Convert AutoConfiguredLB to an actual LB (4bbf8eee5). This is an internal refactoring, but it does improve how errors are handled for broken binaries. Previously, not being able to load pick_first would result in a channel panic. Now it is handled as a regular load balancing error

• okhttp: Assert no pending streams before transport READY (#12566) (ed6d175fc). No pending streams should exist when the transport transitions to READY. This PR adds an assertion to help verify this invariant.

Bug Fixes

• core: PickFirstLB should not return a subchannel during CONNECTING (228fc8ecd). Pick-first in grpc-java has behaved this way since it was created, and it was of no consequence. However, now there are some load balancing policies (mainly RLS) that will do a pick() and hope the result to be reasonably accurate for metrics.

Improvements

• core: Improve DEADLINE_EXCEEDED message for CallCreds delays (ead532b39). Previously the error message contained “buffered_nanos” and “waiting_for_connection” for connection delays. However, we discovered the same strings were also used if waiting on CallCredentials. Now you’ll see details like “connecting_and_lb_delay”, “call_credentials_delay”, and “was_still_waiting”.

• opentelemetry: Add Android API checking (a9f73f4c0). Previously we assumed OpenTelemetry support would not be used on Android. It did happen to be compatible with Android, but since OpenTelemetry does have some Android support, we now have a check that it remains compatible

• core: Catch Errors when calling complex config parsing code (a535ed799). Error (and any other Throwable) is now caught and handled when parsing configuration (e.g., service config, xds). This will cause such failures to be handled gracefully instead of panicking the channel

• core: Implement LoadBalancer.Helper.createOobChannel() with the internals of createResolvingOobChannel() (3915d029c). This API is only expected to be relevant to the gRPC-LB lookaside load balancer, and is not believed to have behavior changes. Out-of-band channel had been implemented with its own stripped-down Channel without load balancing. Reimplementing using the resolving oob channel makes it a full-fledged channel and reduces the burden when integrating new features and allows us to have a ManagedChannelBuilder to use with efforts like gRFC A110: Child Channel Options.

• xds: Implement the proactive connection logic in RingHashLoadBalancer as outlined in gRFC A61 (#12596). Previously, the Java implementation only initialized child balancers when a ring-chosen endpoint was in TRANSIENT_FAILURE during a picker's pickSubchannel call. This PR adds the missing logic: when a child balancer reports TRANSIENT_FAILURE, the LoadBalancer now proactively initializes the first available IDLE child if no other children are currently connecting or ready.

This ensures a backup subchannel starts warming up immediately outside the RPC flow, reducing failover latency and improving overall resilience. This behavior was previously present but was inadvertently lost after #10610.

• api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602) (f65127cf7) Experimental RFC 3986 target URI parsing mode (disabled by default)

New Features

• opentelemetry: Actual reason for the disconnects in subchannel metrics(6b2f7580c), completing the remaining work in gRFC A96: OTel metrics for Subchannels

Dependencies 

• protobuf: Upgrade Bazel protobuf to 33.1 (#12553) (b61a8f49c) and load java_proto_library from the protobuf repo (c7f3cdbc3)

• protobuf: Fix build with Bazel 9 by upgrading bazel_jar_jar and grpc-proto versions (#12569)

• Upgrade dependencies (#12588) (6422092e3) Netty to 4.1.130, error-prone annotations to 2.45.0, google-auth-library to 1.41.0, tomcat-embed-core9 to 9.0.113, tomcat-embed-core to 10.1.50, opentelemetry to 1.57.0, jetty-ee10-servlet to 12.1.5, jetty-http2-server to 12.1.5, google-cloud-logging to 3.23.9, google-auth to 1.41.0, proto-google-common-protos to 2.63.2.

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Commits

• 381593f Bump version to 1.79.0
• f93ecb0 Update README etc to reference 1.79.0
• f6d140f xds: Normalize weights before combining endpoint and locality weights
• c589bef core: clarify dns javadoc/test about trailing path segments
• 65596ae core: Move 4 test cases from DnsNameResolverTest to DnsNameResolverProviderTe...
• 59a64f0 core: Use FlagResetRule to set/restore system properties in DnsNameResolverTe...
• c5f5ee0 opentelemetry: Add target attribute filter for metrics (#12587)
• f65127c api: Add RFC 3986 support to DnsNameResolverProvider (#12602)
• a535ed7 Catch Errors when calling complex parsing code
• ebb9420 xds: Merge ClusterResolverLB into CdsLB2
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