gRPC
v1.84.2Networking & MessagingOct 30, 2026
A maintenance release with a denial-of-service fix for `Health Watch RPC`, alongside Python memory-leak fixes and authority-handling corrections. It also enables the host-mapping experiment by default.
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securityHealth Watch RPC denial-of-service fix
Applies if you use
Health Watch RPC.The denial-of-service defect in
Health Watch RPCis fixed in this release.
All 5 other recorded changesvalue changes 3 · additions 1 · fixes 1
value changes (3)
- - #43509 Make xDS routing and RBAC resolve the request authority consistently
- - #43675 host/:authority handling in the HPACK parser
- enable map_host_header_to_authority
additions (1)
- - #43561 ([experiments] Add map_host_header_to_authority experiment) and its test-tags follow-up, since v1.84.x does not have the experiment yet
fixes (1)
- - Fixes Memory leak in AsyncIO client-streaming calls with interceptors ([#43784](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/43784))
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