google-cloud-spanner

3.69.1 (2026-08-06)

Bug Fixes

• bump grpcio to 1.59.0; require Python 3.10+ (#17351) (a53487a)
• metrics: fix GFE and AFE metrics publishing (#17561) (abf1178)
• spanner: escape embedded backticks in dbapi escape_name (#17810) (c8b0b28)
• spanner: implement dict protocol and nested unwrapping for JsonObject (#17915) (06c1f05), refs #15870

3.69.0 (2026-06-25)

Features

• regenerate google-cloud-spanner (#17578) (39b252f)

v3.68.0 (2026-06-11)

Features

• add asynchronous code snippets and minor cleanup changes (#17337) (d6aaf610)

Performance Improvements

• optimize query result decoding (#17375) (3f70b2ff)

v3.67.0 (2026-06-02)

Features

• drop Python 3.7-3.9 support and regenerate (#17169) (2408166f)

• log client configuration at startup (#17040) (a830a785)

• drop python runtime 3.9 (#17070) (cddabc0f)

• update API sources and regenerate (#16998) (cef659d8)

Bug Fixes

• replace insecure pickle with json for partition deserialization (#17014) (86e57cb9)

Features

• Add last statement option samples (#16499) (ee098051f562dd2f26743a622b52605e6cef19f1)

Bug Fixes

• correctly parse type assertions in extends clause (@​nicolo-ribaudo) - #​17723 [7.x backport] fix(parser): improve super type argument parsing (@​JLHwung) - babel-traverse - #​17708 (5098df262245fb333ae73fc7eb568f905bc0190a)
• provide a hub when traversing a File or Program and no parentPath is given (@​simbahax) - babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-traverse - #​17737 [7.x backport] fix: Rename switch discriminant references when body creates shadowing variable (@​magic-akari) (5098df262245fb333ae73fc7eb568f905bc0190a)

Documentation

• mark new AsyncIO APIs as experimental (#1533) (3909c04548d5be0f4e08ccc005babaa4b171f693)
• A comment for field routing_hint in messages .google.spanner.v1.ResultSet and .google.spanner.v1.PartialResultSet are changed (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• A comment in message .google.spanner.v1.TransactionOptions.ReadWrite.ReadLockMode is changed (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• A comment for field params in message .google.spanner.v1.PartitionQueryRequest is changed (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• A comment for field transaction_tag in message .google.spanner.v1.RequestOptions is changed (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• A comment for field param_types in message .google.spanner.v1.PartitionQueryRequest is changed (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• A comment for field commit_timestamp in message .google.spanner.v1.BatchWriteResponse is changed (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• Update high_priority_cpu_utilization_percent in AutoscalingConfig to be Optional and clarify its behavior when not specified (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• minor update for Spanner Location API (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)

Features

• include cache updates and routing hint into BeginTransaction and Commit request/response respectively (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• include cache updates into the ResultSet response (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• add a ClientContext field to Spanner requests (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• add Secure Parameters to the ClientContext (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• Exposing total CPU related fields in AutoscalingConfig (9d2338a69807463ddb159562eab7784fbce6f098)
• implement native asyncio support via Cross-Sync (#1509) (f822fd7caeb608bbfbf75f5225b4ac13c520d8d8)
• use inline begin to eliminate BeginTransaction RPC (#1502) (00d5f8e6f68cdf3cc2104f8c0de0b114a0e35182)
• add Client Context support to options (#1499) (0da5f785aba5f50f81ad6d0d352ea012e6be0e2c)
• add TLS/mTLS support for experimental host (#1479) (0c4c5da39bb09d8969c2968c6a4ebab12123b347)

Bug Fixes

• add threading import and _resource_info to snapshot.py (659034aa242780109ed4fa0ee2e6d0a2e5e76dac)
• restore implicit database_dialect reload in sync client (#1537) (67f5104326a0f2e57770fd2543a39f5d067cc818)
• resolve async deadlock in multiplexed session manager (#1520) (c8f936b0a99837c483e91007dd1c0ffde284ff9f)

Documentation

• snippet for setting read lock mode (#1473) (7e79920cfc8be76261dea1348931b0ef539dd6e1)

Features

• add requestID info in error exceptions (#1415) (2c5eb96c4b395f84b60aba1c584ff195dbce4617)

Bug Fixes

• prevent thread leak by ensuring singleton initialization (#1492) (e792136aa487f327736e01e34afe01cf2015f5a0)

Features

• add uuid support (#1310) (3b1792aad1d046b6ae1e5c982f5047289dffd95c)

Bug Fixes

• handle errors during stream restart in snapshot (#1471) (c0668735cb69532f4c852bb7678f63e54da2d34e)
• resolve pre-release dependency failures and sqlparse recursion (#1472) (9ec95b7df5e921112bd58b820722103177e0e5b6)
• transaction_tag should be set on BeginTransactionRequest (#1463) (3d3cea0b5afb414a506ab08eebae733d803f17ac)

Features

• support mTLS certificates when available (#1467) (df87c3ed55db7cffa2eed4d7316ca5c375af1c5a)

Documentation

• Update description for the BatchCreateSessionsRequest and Session (e08260fe24b62313d7964572eeb963eb8c3c923f)
• Update description for the IsolationLevel (e08260fe24b62313d7964572eeb963eb8c3c923f)

Features

• make built-in metrics enabled by default (#1459) (64aebe7e3ecfec756435f7d102b36f5a41f7cc52)
• Add Spanner location API (#1457) (e08260fe24b62313d7964572eeb963eb8c3c923f)
• Add Send and Ack mutations for Queues (e08260fe24b62313d7964572eeb963eb8c3c923f)
• Add QueryAdvisorResult for query plan (e08260fe24b62313d7964572eeb963eb8c3c923f)
• add cloud.region, request_tag and transaction_tag in span attributes (#1449) (d37fb80a39aea859059ae7d85adc75095a6e14e6)
• Exposing AutoscalingConfig in InstancePartition (8b6f154085543953556acde161a739414988b7f0)
• enable OpenTelemetry metrics and tracing by default (#1410) (bb5095dfb615159a575933a332382ba93ba4bbd1)
• add support for experimental host (#1452) (9535e5e096f6ab53f2817af4fd7ac1fa2ca71660)

Bug Fixes

• Provide Spanner Option to disable metrics (#1460) (f1ebc43ba4c1ee3a8ee77ae4b0b2468937f06b71)
• Deprecate credentials_file argument (8b6f154085543953556acde161a739414988b7f0)
• configure keepAlive time for gRPC TCP connections (#1448) (efb2833e52e54b096e552a4d91f94b017ac733bb)

Features

• spanner: Add lazy decode to partitioned query (#1411) (a09961b)

Bug Fixes

• spanner: Resolve TypeError in metrics resource detection (#1446) (7266686)

Documentation

• Add snippet for Repeatable Read configuration at client and transaction (#1326) (58e2406)

Features

• spanner: Support setting read lock mode (#1404) (ee24c6e)

Dependencies

• Remove Python 3.7 and 3.8 as supported runtimes (#1395) (fc93792)

Features

• Support configuring logger in dbapi kwargs (#1400) (ffa5c9e)

Features

• Add support for multiplexed sessions - read/write (#1389) (ce3f230)
• Add support for multiplexed sessions (#1383) (21f5028)
• Default enable multiplex session for all operations unless explicitly set to false (#1394) (651ca9c)
• spanner: Add new change_stream.proto (#1382) (ca6255e)

Performance Improvements

• Skip gRPC trailers for StreamingRead & ExecuteStreamingSql (#1385) (cb25de4)

Features

• Add a last field in the PartialResultSet (d532d57)
• Add support for multiplexed sessions (#1381) (97d7268)
• Add throughput_mode to UpdateDatabaseDdlRequest to be used by Spanner Migration Tool. See https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/spanner-migration-tool (d532d57)
• Support fine-grained permissions database roles in connect (#1338) (064d9dc)

Bug Fixes

• E2E tracing metadata append issue (#1357) (3943885)
• Pass through kwargs in dbapi connect (#1368) (aae8d61)
• Remove setup.cfg configuration for creating universal wheels (#1324) (e064474)

Documentation

• A comment for field chunked_value in message .google.spanner.v1.PartialResultSet is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for field precommit_token in message .google.spanner.v1.PartialResultSet is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for field precommit_token in message .google.spanner.v1.ResultSet is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for field query_plan in message .google.spanner.v1.ResultSetStats is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for field row_count_lower_bound in message .google.spanner.v1.ResultSetStats is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for field row_type in message .google.spanner.v1.ResultSetMetadata is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for field rows in message .google.spanner.v1.ResultSet is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for field stats in message .google.spanner.v1.PartialResultSet is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for field stats in message .google.spanner.v1.ResultSet is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for field values in message .google.spanner.v1.PartialResultSet is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for message ResultSetMetadata is changed (d532d57)
• A comment for message ResultSetStats is changed (d532d57)
• Fix markdown formatting in transactions page (#1377) (de322f8)

Features

• Add interval type support (#1340) (6ca9b43)
• Add sample for pre-split feature (#1333) (ca76108)
• Add SQL statement for begin transaction isolation level (#1331) (3ac0f91)
• Support transaction isolation level in dbapi (#1327) (03400c4)

Bug Fixes

• Improve client-side regex statement parser (#1328) (b3c259d)

Features

• Add AddSplitPoints API (7a5afba)
• Add Attempt, Operation and GFE Metrics (#1302) (fb21d9a)
• Add REST Interceptors which support reading metadata (7a5afba)
• Add support for opt-in debug logging (7a5afba)
• Add support for reading selective GAPIC generation methods from service YAML (7a5afba)
• Add the last statement option to ExecuteSqlRequest and ExecuteBatchDmlRequest (7a5afba)
• Add UUID in Spanner TypeCode enum (7a5afba)
• End to end tracing (#1315) (aa5d0e6)
• Exposing FreeInstanceAvailability in InstanceConfig (7a5afba)
• Exposing FreeInstanceMetadata in Instance configuration (to define the metadata related to FREE instance type) (7a5afba)
• Exposing InstanceType in Instance configuration (to define PROVISIONED or FREE spanner instance) (7a5afba)
• Exposing QuorumType in InstanceConfig (7a5afba)
• Exposing storage_limit_per_processing_unit in InstanceConfig (7a5afba)
• Snapshot isolation (#1318) (992fcae)
• spanner: A new enum IsolationLevel is added (#1224) (7a5afba)

Bug Fixes

• Allow Protobuf 6.x (#1320) (1faab91)
• Cleanup after metric integration test (#1322) (d7cf8b9)
• deps: Require grpc-google-iam-v1>=0.14.0 (7a5afba)
• Fix typing issue with gRPC metadata when key ends in -bin (7a5afba)

Performance Improvements

• Add option for last_statement (#1313) (19ab6ef)

Documentation

• A comment for enum DefaultBackupScheduleType is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for enum value AUTOMATIC in enum DefaultBackupScheduleType is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for enum value GOOGLE_MANAGED in enum Type is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for enum value NONE in enum DefaultBackupScheduleType is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for enum value USER_MANAGED in enum Type is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field base_config in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstanceConfig is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field default_backup_schedule_type in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.Instance is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field filter in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.ListInstanceConfigOperationsRequest is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field filter in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.ListInstancePartitionOperationsRequest is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field instance_config in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.CreateInstanceConfigRequest is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field instance_partition_deadline in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.ListInstancePartitionOperationsRequest is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field location in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.ReplicaInfo is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field node_count in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.Instance is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field node_count in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstancePartition is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field operations in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.ListInstanceConfigOperationsResponse is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field operations in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.ListInstancePartitionOperationsResponse is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field optional_replicas in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstanceConfig is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field parent in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.ListInstancePartitionsRequest is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field processing_units in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.Instance is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field processing_units in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstancePartition is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field referencing_backups in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstancePartition is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field replicas in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.InstanceConfig is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field storage_utilization_percent in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.AutoscalingConfig is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for field unreachable in message .google.spanner.admin.instance.v1.ListInstancePartitionsResponse is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for message CreateInstanceConfigRequest is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for message DeleteInstanceConfigRequest is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for message UpdateInstanceConfigRequest is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method CreateInstance in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method CreateInstanceConfig in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method CreateInstancePartition in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method ListInstanceConfigOperations in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method ListInstanceConfigs in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method ListInstancePartitionOperations in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method MoveInstance in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method UpdateInstance in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method UpdateInstanceConfig in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• A comment for method UpdateInstancePartition in service InstanceAdmin is changed (7a5afba)
• Fix typo timzeone -> timezone (7a5afba)

Features

• Add additional opentelemetry span events for session pool (a6811af)
• Add GCP standard otel attributes for python client (#1308) (0839f98)
• Add updated span events + trace more methods (#1259) (ad69c48)
• MetricsTracer implementation (#1291) (8fbde6b)
• Support GRAPH and pipe syntax in dbapi (#1285) (959bb9c)
• Support transaction and request tags in dbapi (#1262) (ee9662f)
• x-goog-spanner-request-id: Introduce AtomicCounter (#1275) (f2483e1)

Bug Fixes

• Retry UNAVAILABLE errors for streaming RPCs (#1278) (ab31078), closes #1150
• tracing: Ensure nesting of Transaction.begin under commit + fix suggestions from feature review (#1287) (d9ee75a)
• tracing: Only set span.status=OK if UNSET (#1248) (1d393fe), closes #1246
• Update retry strategy for mutation calls to handle aborted transactions (#1279) (0887eb4)

Features

• Add connection variable for ignoring transaction warnings (#1249) (eeb7836)
• spanner: Implement custom tracer_provider injection for opentelemetry traces (#1229) (6869ed6)
• Support float32 parameters in dbapi (#1245) (829b799)

Bug Fixes

• Allow setting connection.read_only to same value (#1247) (5e8ca94)
• Allow setting staleness to same value in tx (#1253) (a214885)
• Dbapi raised AttributeError with [] as arguments (#1257) (758bf48)

Performance Improvements

• Optimize ResultSet decoding (#1244) (ccae6e0)
• Remove repeated GetSession calls for FixedSizePool (#1252) (c064815)

Documentation

• samples: Add samples for Cloud Spanner Default Backup Schedules (#1238) (054a186)

Bug Fixes

• Json data type for non object values (#1236) (0007be3)
• spanner: Multi_scm issue in python release (#1230) (6d64e9f)

Features

• spanner: Add support for Cloud Spanner Default Backup Schedules (45d4517)

Bug Fixes

• Add PROTO in streaming chunks (#1213) (43c190b)
• Pass through route-to-leader option in dbapi (#1223) (ec6c204)
• Pin nox version in requirements.in for devcontainer. (#1215) (41604fe)

Documentation

• Allow multiple KMS keys to create CMEK database/backup (68551c2)

Bug Fixes

• Revert "chore(spanner): Issue#1143 - Update dependency" (92f05ed)

Features

• Create a few code snippets as examples for using Spanner Graph in Python (#1186) (f886ebd)
• spanner: Add resource reference annotation to backup schedules (#1176) (b503fc9)
• spanner: Add samples for instance partitions (#1168) (55f83dc)

Bug Fixes

• JsonObject init when called on JsonObject of list (#1166) (c4af6f0)

Features

• Add field lock_hint in spanner.proto (9609ad9)
• Add field order_by in spanner.proto (9609ad9)
• Add support for Cloud Spanner Scheduled Backups (9609ad9)
• spanner: Add support for txn changstream exclusion (#1152) (00ccb7a)

Bug Fixes

• Allow protobuf 5.x (9609ad9)
• spanner: Unskip emulator tests for proto (#1145) (cb74679)

Features

• Add support for multi region encryption config (#1136) (bc71fe9)
• spanner: Add support for Proto Columns (#1084) (3ca2689)

Features

• spanner: Adding EXPECTED_FULFILLMENT_PERIOD to the indicate instance creation times (with FULFILLMENT_PERIOD_NORMAL or FULFILLMENT_PERIOD_EXTENDED ENUM) with the extended instance creation time triggered by On-Demand Capacity Feature (293ecda)

Documentation

• Remove duplicate paramter description (#1052) (1164743)

Features

• Add support for PG.OID in parameterized queries (#1035) (ea5efe4)

Bug Fixes

• Dates before 1000AD should use 4-digit years (#1132) (0ef6565), closes #1131

Features

• Add support of float32 type (#1113) (7e0b46a)
• Changes for float32 in dbapi (#1115) (c9f4fbf)

Bug Fixes

• Correcting name of variable from table_schema to schema_name (#1114) (a92c6d3)

Documentation

• Add sample for managed autoscaler (#1111) (e73c671)

Features

• Add retry and timeout for batch dml (#1107) (4f6340b)
• Add support for max commit delay (#1050) (d5acc26)
• Exposing Spanner client in dbapi connection (#1100) (9299212)
• Include RENAME in DDL regex (#1075) (3669303)
• Support partitioned dml in dbapi (#1103) (3aab0ed)
• Untyped param (#1001) (1750328)

Documentation

• Samples and tests for admin backup APIs (#1105) (5410c32)
• Samples and tests for admin database APIs (#1099) (c25376c)
• Update all public documents to use auto-generated admin clients. (#1109) (d683a14)
• Use autogenerated methods to get names from admin samples (#1110) (3ab74b2)

Features

• Add FLOAT32 enum to TypeCode (5b94dac)
• Add max_commit_delay API (#1078) (ec87c08)
• Add proto descriptors for proto and enum types in create/update/get database ddl requests (5b94dac)
• Fixing and refactoring transaction retry logic in dbapi. Also adding interceptors support for testing (#1056) (6640888)
• Implementation of run partition query (#1080) (f3b23b2)

Bug Fixes

• Few fixes in DBAPI (#1085) (1ed5a47)
• Small fix in description when metadata is not present in cursor's _result_set (#1088) (57643e6)
• spanner: Add SpannerAsyncClient import to spanner_v1 package (#1086) (2d98b54)

Documentation

• Samples and tests for auto-generated createDatabase and createInstance APIs. (#1065) (16c510e)

Features

• Add BatchWrite API (#1011) (d0e4ffc)
• Add PG.OID type cod annotation (#1023) (2d59dd0)
• Add support for Directed Reads (#1000) (c4210b2)
• Add support for Python 3.12 (#1040) (b28dc9b)
• Batch Write API implementation and samples (#1027) (aa36b07)
• Implementation for batch dml in dbapi (#1055) (7a92315)
• Implementation for Begin and Rollback clientside statements (#1041) (15623cd)
• Implementation for partitioned query in dbapi (#1067) (63daa8a)
• Implementation of client side statements that return (#1046) (bb5fa1f)
• Implementing client side statements in dbapi (starting with commit) (#1037) (eb41b0d)
• Introduce compatibility with native namespace packages (#1036) (5d80ab0)
• Return list of dictionaries for execute streaming sql (#1003) (b534a8a)
• spanner: Add autoscaling config to the instance proto (#1022) (4d490cf)
• spanner: Add directed_read_option in spanner.proto (#1030) (84d662b)

Bug Fixes

• Executing existing DDL statements on executemany statement execution (#1032) (07fbc45)
• Fix for flaky test_read_timestamp_client_side_autocommit test (#1071) (0406ded)
• Require google-cloud-core >= 1.4.4 (#1015) (a2f87b9)
• Require proto-plus 1.22.2 for python 3.11 (#880) (7debe71)
• Use retry_async instead of retry in async client (#1044) (1253ae4)

Documentation

• Minor formatting (498dba2)

Bug Fixes

• Fix to reload table when checking if table exists (#1002) (53bda62)

Features

• Enable leader aware routing by default. This update contains performance optimisations that will reduce the latency of read/write transactions that originate from a region other than the default leader region. (e8dbfe7)

Features

• Foreign key on delete cascade action testing and samples (#910) (681c8ee)

Documentation

• Minor formatting (#991) (60efc42)

Features

• Set LAR as False (#980) (75e8a59)

Features

• Enable leader aware routing by default. This update contains performance optimisations that will reduce the latency of read/write transactions that originate from a region other than the default leader region. (402b101)

Bug Fixes

• Add async context manager return types (#967) (7e2e712)

Documentation

• Fix documentation structure (#949) (b73e47b)

Features

• Add DdlStatementActionInfo and add actions to UpdateDatabaseDdlMetadata (#948) (1ca6874)
• Testing for fgac-pg (#902) (ad1f527)

Bug Fixes

• Catch rst stream error for all transactions (#934) (d317d2e)

Features

• Add support for updateDatabase in Cloud Spanner (#914) (6c7ad29)

Features

• Add support for UpdateDatabase in Cloud Spanner (#941) (38fb890)

Bug Fixes

• Upgrade version of sqlparse (#943) (df57ce6)

Features

• Leader Aware Routing (#899) (f9fefad)

Features

• Enable instance-level connection (#931) (d6963e2)

Features

• Add databoost enabled property for batch transactions (#892) (ffb3915)

Bug Fixes

• Set databoost false (#928) (c9ed9d2)

Features

• Pass custom Client object to dbapi (#911) (52b1a0a)

Features

• Adding new fields for Serverless analytics (#906) (2a5a636)

Bug Fixes

• Correcting the proto field Id for field data_boost_enabled (#915) (428aa1e)

Documentation

• Fix formatting of request arg in docstring (#918) (c022bf8)

Features

• Enable "rest" transport in Python for services supporting numeric enums (#897) (c21a0d5)

Bug Fixes

• Add context manager return types (830f325)
• Change fgac database role tags (#888) (ae92f0d)
• Fix for database name in batch create request (#883) (5e50beb)

Documentation

• Add documentation for enums (830f325)

Features

• Add support for python 3.11 (#879) (4b8c2cf)
• Add typing to proto.Message based class attributes (4683d10)

Bug Fixes

• Add dict typing for client_options (4683d10)
• deps: Require google-api-core >=1.34.0, >=2.11.0 (4683d10)
• Drop packaging dependency (4683d10)
• Drop usage of pkg_resources (4683d10)
• Fix timeout default values (4683d10)

Documentation

• samples: Snippetgen handling of repeated enum field (4683d10)
• samples: Snippetgen should call await on the operation coroutine before calling result (4683d10)

Features

• Inline Begin transction for RW transactions (#840) (c2456be)

Bug Fixes

• Fix for binding of pinging and bursty pool with database role (#871) (89da17e)

Features

• Fgac support and samples (#867) (24fa244)

Features

• Add snippets for Spanner DML with returning clause (#811) (62e55b5)
• Add support and tests for DML returning clauses (#805) (81505cd)

Features

• Adding support and samples for jsonb (#851) (268924d)
• Support request priorities (#834) (ef2159c)
• Support requiest options in !autocommit mode (#838) (ab768e4)
• Update result_set.proto to return undeclared parameters in ExecuteSql API (#841) (0aa4cad)
• Update transaction.proto to include different lock modes (#845) (c191296)

Bug Fixes

• deps: Allow protobuf 3.19.5 (#839) (06725fc)

Documentation

• Describe DB API and transactions retry mechanism (#844) (30a0666), closes #791

Bug Fixes

• deps: Require protobuf >= 3.20.2 (#830) (4d71563)

Documentation

• samples: add samples for CMMR phase 2 (4282340)

Features

• Adding reason, domain, metadata & error_details fields in Custom Exceptions for additional info (#804) (2a74060)

Features

• Add custom instance config operations (#810) (f07333f)

Features

• Adds TypeAnnotationCode PG_JSONB (#792) (6a661d4)

Bug Fixes

• if JsonObject serialized to None then return null_value instead of string_value (#771) (82170b5)