# gRPC v1.81.2

> Networking & Messaging · 2026-11-06

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
- **[security]** gRPC repository roots updated
  - The gRPC repository roots are updated in the `v1.81.x` backport.

## Other recorded changes
- 4 (defect_corrected 3, default_changed 1)

[Full analysis](https://ratatosk.io/en/releases/grpc/v1.81.2)

[Original release notes](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/tag/v1.81.2)