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Today, we’re announcing the 2.0 release of the Connect-ES project, the TypeScript implementation of Connect for Web browsers and Node.js. This release introduces improved support for major frameworks and simplified code generation. Connect-ES 2.0 now uses Protobuf-ES 2.0 APIs to leverage reflection, extension registries, and Protobuf custom options. The 2.0 release is a major version bump and comes with breaking changes. Read on to learn what’s changed and how to migrate to the 2.0 release.

We’re excited to share that Connect-Swift has officially reached v1.0—its first stable release! With this milestone, the library’s battle-tested APIs will remain stable until its next major release. Projects can rely on Connect-Swift without worrying that future releases will cause breakages or require migrations.

Connect RPC, Buf’s family of fully protocol-conformant and battle-tested alternatives to Google’s gRPC project, has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. We joined the CNCF to demonstrate our deep commitment to sustainably and responsibly growing Connect as a well-governed and community-led open source project. Today, Connect integrates seamlessly with gRPC systems in production at companies of all sizes, such as CrowdStrike, PlanetScale, RedPanda, Chick-fil-A, BlueSky, and Dropbox.

We’ve open sourced Connect RPC’s protocol conformance suite. Connect is a multi-protocol RPC project that includes support for the gRPC and gRPC-Web protocols. Anyone can now use it to validate the correctness of a gRPC implementation. This article explores how the test suite operates and details our findings for a selection of Connect RPC and Google’s gRPC runtimes.

We’ve expanded the Connect protocol to support the use of HTTP GET requests, enabling web browsers and CDNs to cache Connect requests with ease.

Tutorial that covers creating a service, adding a client, testing, adding a database, and writing tests.

Add observability to your connect-go applications in just a few lines of code

Connect is now full-stack TypeScript

Connect is now available across mobile for both Android and iOS!

A TanStack Query extension to seamlessly integrate Protobuf

Eliminate handwritten Codable models by generating idiomatic HTTP APIs with Protobuf and Connect-Swift.

As of today, Buf Studio supports saving requests to your BSR profile.

Use connect-web to generate compact, idiomatic TypeScript clients for your Protobuf APIs.

Use Connect to build simple, stable, browser and gRPC-compatible APIs.