A monthly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK

## Library A monthly digest of client library updates from across the [Cloud SDK](https://cloud.google.com/sdk). ### Go ### Changes for [spanner/admin/database/apiv1](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/tree/main/spanner/admin/database/apiv1) #### [1.68.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/spanner/v1.67.0...spanner/v1.68.0) (2024-09-25) ##### Features * **spanner:** Add support for Go 1.23 iterators ([84461c0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/84461c0ba464ec2f951987ba60030e37c8a8fc18)) ##### Bug Fixes * **spanner/test:** Bump dependencies ([2ddeb15](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/2ddeb1544a53188a7592046b98913982f1b0cf04)) * **spanner:** Bump dependencies ([2ddeb15](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/2ddeb1544a53188a7592046b98913982f1b0cf04)) * **spanner:** Check errors in tests ([#10738](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10738)) ([971bfb8](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/971bfb85ee7bf8c636117a6424280a4323b5fb3c)) * **spanner:** Enable toStruct support for structs with proto message pointer fields ([#10704](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10704)) ([42cdde6](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/42cdde6ee34fc9058dc47c9c9ab39ba91b6b9c58)) * **spanner:** Ensure defers run at the right time in tests ([#9759](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/9759)) ([7ef0ded](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/7ef0ded2502dbb37f07bc93bc2e868e29f7121c4)) * **spanner:** Increase spanner ping timeout to give backend more time to process executeSQL requests ([#10874](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10874)) ([6997991](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/6997991e2325e7a66d3ffa60c27622a1a13041a8)) * **spanner:** Json null handling ([#10660](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10660)) ([4c519e3](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/4c519e37a124defc3451adfdbd0883a5e081eb2f)) * **spanner:** Support custom encoding and decoding of protos ([#10799](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10799)) ([d410907](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/d410907f3e52bcc64bd92e0a341777c1277a6418)) * **spanner:** Unnecessary string formatting fixes ([#10736](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10736)) ([1efe5c4](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/1efe5c4275dca6d739691e89b8d460b97160d953)) * **spanner:** Wait for things to complete ([#10095](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10095)) ([7785cad](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/7785cad89effbc8c4e67043368f96d4768cdb40f)) ##### Performance Improvements * **spanner:** Better error handling ([#10734](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10734)) ([c342f65](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/c342f6550c24e3a16e32d1cd61c6fcfeaed77c7b)), refs [#9749](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/9749) ##### Documentation * **spanner:** Fix Key related document code to add package name ([#10711](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10711)) ([bbe7b9c](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/bbe7b9ceed1deb85a4f40ea95572595ce63ff002)) ### Java ### Changes for [google-cloud-spanner](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner) #### [6.74.0](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/compare/v6.73.0...v6.74.0) (2024-08-27) ##### Features * **spanner:** Add edition field to the instance proto ([6b7e6ca](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/commit/6b7e6ca109ea9679b5e36598d3c343fa40bff724)) ##### Documentation * Change the example timestamps in Spanner Graph java sample code ([#3295](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/issues/3295)) ([b6490b6](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/commit/b6490b6a6ee2b7399431881a5e87b5ef7b577c89)) #### [6.74.1](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/compare/v6.74.0...v6.74.1) (2024-09-16) ##### Bug Fixes * Use core pool size 1 for maintainer ([#3314](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/issues/3314)) ([cce008d](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/commit/cce008d212535d32da990242973f7f517ca5d6dc)) ##### Dependencies * Update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.35.0 ([#3329](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/issues/3329)) ([654835f](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/commit/654835f2433b97665c74be9ec80c169ac905a720)) #### [6.75.0](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/compare/v6.74.1...v6.75.0) (2024-09-19) ##### Features * Support multiplexed session for blind write with single use transaction ([#3229](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/issues/3229)) ([b3e2b0f](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/commit/b3e2b0f4892951867715cb7f354c089fca4f050f)) #### [6.76.0](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/compare/v6.75.0...v6.76.0) (2024-09-27) ##### Features * Add opt-in flag and ClientInterceptor to propagate trace context for Spanner end to end tracing ([#3162](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/issues/3162)) ([0b7fdaf](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/commit/0b7fdaf1d25e81ca8dd35a0f8d8caa7b77a7e58c)) * Add samples for backup schedule feature APIs. ([#3339](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/issues/3339)) ([8cd5163](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/commit/8cd516351e7859a81f00f17cb5071edbd804ea90)) ##### Bug Fixes * **deps:** Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.46.1 ([1719f44](https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner/commit/1719f4465841354db3253fd132868394e530a82d)) ### Python ### Changes for [google-cloud-spanner](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner) #### [3.49.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/compare/v3.48.0...v3.49.0) (2024-08-27) ##### Features * Create a few code snippets as examples for using Spanner Graph in Python ([#1186](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/1186)) ([f886ebd](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/f886ebd80a6422c2167cd440a2a646f52701b684)) * **spanner:** Add resource reference annotation to backup schedules ([#1176](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/1176)) ([b503fc9](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/b503fc95d8abd47869a24f0e824a227a281282d6)) * **spanner:** Add samples for instance partitions ([#1168](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/1168)) ([55f83dc](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/55f83dc5f776d436b30da6056a9cdcad3971ce39)) ##### Bug Fixes * JsonObject init when called on JsonObject of list ([#1166](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/1166)) ([c4af6f0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/c4af6f09a449f293768f70a84e805ffe08c6c2fb)) #### [3.49.1](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/compare/v3.49.0...v3.49.1) (2024-09-06) ##### Bug Fixes * Revert "chore(spanner): Issue[#1143](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/issues/1143) \- Update dependency" ([92f05ed](https://github.com/googleapis/python-spanner/commit/92f05ed04e49adfe0ad68bfa52e855baf8b17643))