gRPC
v1.81.2Networking & MessagingNov 6, 2026
A maintenance release includes an undisclosed security update, correctness fixes in core and Windows event handling, and a newly enabled OSS experiment. It does not call for a broad operator migration.
Action needed (1)
securitygRPC repository roots updated
The gRPC repository roots are updated in the
v1.backport.81. x
All 4 other recorded changesfixes 3 · defaults 1
fixes (3)
- - [EventEngine] Fix a potential use-after-free error on Windows.
- - [Core] Fix completion queue shutdown race on weak memory models (ARM).
- - [EventEngine] Fix a Windows race that causes an assertion error.
defaults (1)
- - [grpc_error] enable error_flatten experiment in OSS.
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