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Bumps the go-minor-patch group with 4 updates: github.com/buger/jsonparser, github.com/rs/zerolog, golang.org/x/net and google.golang.org/grpc.

Updates github.com/buger/jsonparser from 1.2.0 to 1.6.1

Release notes

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v1.6.1 — Fastest across all payload sizes (now benchmarks vs gjson + sonic)

🔒 Covered by ReqProof — L3 Assurance (123 requirements, 0 errors, 0 warnings)

Performance — gjson-style fast-skip

Ported gjson's >'\\' single-comparison fast-skip to three hot loops. The trick skips all non-structural bytes (those > 0x5C) in one unsigned comparison per byte, reducing branch overhead.

Payload	Before	After	Change
Small (190B)	382 ns	339 ns	-11.3%
Medium (2.4kB)	3,899 ns	3,141 ns	-19.4%
Large (24kB)	20,788 ns	20,114 ns	-3.2%

Now benchmarks against gjson and sonic

Added tidwall/gjson (15.5k⭐) and bytedance/sonic (9.6k⭐) to the benchmark suite.

Large payload — the definitive ranking:

Library	time/op	allocs
jsonparser	20,114 ns	0
gjson	22,756 ns	2
easyjson	33,771 ns	134
sonic	41,053 ns	71
ffjson	59,063 ns	144
encoding/json	130,565 ns	147

jsonparser is the fastest across ALL payload sizes and the only zero-allocation parser.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

v1.6.0 — Append function + zero open known issues

🔒 Covered by ReqProof — L3 Assurance (123 requirements, 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 open known issues)

New API: Append

// Append to an array without knowing its length
data, _ = jsonparser.Append(data, []byte(`"new_item"`), "items")

Append(data, value, keys...) ([]byte, error) — clean array-append API. Works on top-level and nested arrays. Auto-creates missing paths as single-element arrays. No need for [N] path syntax.

Bug fixes — all known issues resolved

KI	Fix
KI-2	ParseInt("-") now returns MalformedValueError (was returning 0, nil)
KI-3	Disposition corrected to fixed (auto-coerce was implemented in v1.3.0)

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Changelog

Sourced from github.com/buger/jsonparser's changelog.

[v1.6.1] — 2026-07-29

Covered by ReqProof — L3 Assurance (123 requirements, 0 errors, 0 warnings)

Performance — gjson-style fast-skip in hot loops

Ported gjson's >'\\' fast-skip trick to three inner loops in parser.go: stringEndConfig tail, blockEndConfig, and searchKeysConfig. The trick uses a single unsigned comparison (byte > 0x5C) to skip all non-structural bytes in bulk, reducing per-byte branch overhead.

Payload	Before	After	Improvement
Small (190B)	382 ns	339 ns	-11.3%
Medium (2.4kB)	3,899 ns	3,141 ns	-19.4%
Large (24kB)	20,788 ns	20,114 ns	-3.2%

Zero allocations maintained on all paths.

Benchmarks — now includes gjson and sonic

Added tidwall/gjson (15.5k⭐, path-based parser like jsonparser) and bytedance/sonic (9.6k⭐, SIMD-accelerated deserializer) to the benchmark suite.

Final leaderboard (large payload):

Library	time/op	bytes/op	allocs/op
buger/jsonparser	20,114	0	0
tidwall/gjson	22,756	28,672	2
mailru/easyjson	33,771	4,016	134
bytedance/sonic	41,053	31,368	71
pquerna/ffjson	59,063	4,822	144
encoding/json	130,565	4,432	147

jsonparser is the fastest across all payload sizes and the only zero-allocation parser.

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[v1.6.0] — 2026-07-29

Covered by ReqProof — L3 Assurance (123 requirements, 0 errors, 0 warnings)

New API — Append

// Append to an array without knowing its length
data, _ = jsonparser.Append(data, []byte(`"new_item"`), "items")

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Commits

• 5663ba4 v1.6.1: gjson-style fast-skip optimization + benchmarks vs gjson/sonic
• caa05b0 perf: gjson-style fast-skip in hot loops + benchmarks vs gjson/sonic
• f1c83ac docs: remove anniversary article from repo (private draft)
• 6c82735 docs: ten-year anniversary article with personal backstory and transitive deps
• 3005d5b v1.6.0: Append function + all KI fixes (zero open known issues)
• a55c29b v1.5.1: 6.1x large-payload speedup + fresh benchmarks
• 09dbcf6 perf: SWAR string scan in stringEndConfig (8% large-payload speedup)
• df5ae5b perf: bound stringEnd backslash scan to string body (5.8x large-payload speedup)
• ae21251 Add MC/DC witnesses for SYS-REQ-115 (Config) and SYS-REQ-116 (ReaderParser)
• dfb33c1 docs: complete CHANGELOG with v1.3.0–v1.5.0 entries, all mentioning ReqProof ...
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Updates github.com/rs/zerolog from 1.34.0 to 1.35.1

Commits

• 116c806 event: restore Err() logging when ErrorStackMarshaler returns nil (#763)
• 1396655 Bump CI Go matrix minimum from 1.21 to 1.23
• 4b65a2f Bump actions/cache from 4 to 5 (#741)
• b835796 Bump actions/setup-go from 5 to 6 (#742)
• 134caf8 Added sanitization of journald keys (#751)
• e133b6a Added variadic StrsV, ObjectsV, and StringersV (#752)
• 82017d8 Bump github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22 from 22.6.0 to 22.7.0 (#753)
• 2f5b8a9 fix: UpdateContext skips Nop and zero-value loggers (#754)
• d64c9a7 Add slog.Handler implementation for zerolog (#755)
• a0d61dc fix: return dict to Event pool (#749)
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Updates golang.org/x/net from 0.60.0 to 0.62.0

Commits

• 3de643d html: check all ancestor namespace transitions when rendering raw text
• 05c76ee ipv4, ipv6: avoid slice bounds panics on empty batch or BPF filter
• dad306f ipv6: avoid out-of-bounds panic in ICMPFilter
• 9c0565a ipv4: fix TTL control message parsing on big-endian Linux and Solaris
• 9425eb3 internal/socket, ipv4, ipv6: avoid panic on empty control message on non-Unix
• 4b10404 ipv4, ipv6: avoid nil parse function call in ControlMessage.Parse
• afcf8cd ipv4: fix several missing bounds checks
• 4af4fce html: avoid quadratic complexity when coalescing text nodes
• 7e56200 quic: per-path connection ids
• c1d31df go.mod: update golang.org/x dependencies
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Updates google.golang.org/grpc from 1.83.2 to 1.85.0

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Release 1.85.0

New Features

• stats: Expose the effective client authority (sent on the wire as the HTTP/2 :authority header) in client stats.OutHeader events. (#9296)
  • Special Thanks: @​aryansk
• metadata: Add ValueFromOutgoingContext, which reads a single metadata value from outgoing context without copying the entire outgoing metadata into a new map. (#9282)
  • Special Thanks: @​yuyangguo42

Bug Fixes

• transport: Refine control buffer throttling to only count peer-induced control frames, raise the default GRPC_GO_EXPERIMENTAL_CONTROL_BUFFER_THROTTLE_LIMIT from 100 to 10,000, and close client connections if reads remain throttled for 10s. (#9563)
• server: Ensure Stop() forcefully terminates the server while GracefulStop() is waiting for active handlers to complete. (#9394)
  • Special Thanks: @​stanhu
• server: Unconditionally increment the highest-seen stream ID on when handling HEADERS frames to comply with RFC 7540 §5.1.1. Previously, truncated HEADERS frames left the connection in an inconsistent state and allowed stream IDs to be reused by clients without resulting in a protocol error. (#9414)
• server: Terminate streams immediately when a HEADERS frame includes the EndStream bit. Previously, this caused server handlers to hang when reading a message. (#9391)
• server: Reject requests missing both :authority and Host headers with HTTP 400 and status Internal. (#9365)
• xds: Fix a bug where route header matchers with non-lowercase names failed to match routes. (#9353)
  • Special Thanks: @​winklemad
• client: Ensure retried RPCs use the correct :authority value specified by the LB policy instead of inheriting it from a previous attempt. (#9277)
  • Special Thanks: @​nvxbug
• transport: Fail streams with io.ErrUnexpectedEOF instead of io.EOF upon receiving truncated message headers or bodies after partial data has already been received. (#9204)
  • Special Thanks: @​buger

Release 1.84.0

Behavior Changes

• stats/otel: The grpc.lb.pick_first.* metrics have been removed and replaced with grpc.subchannel.* metrics. See gRFC A94 for more details. (#9215)

New Features

• xds: Add support for contains_match in route header matchers. (#9223)
  • Special Thanks: @​nvxbug

Bug Fixes

• client: Fix a bug where a ClientConn could get permanently stuck in IDLE when an RPC was canceled during stream creation. Previously, such cancellations triggered stream cleanup twice, corrupting the channel's idleness state and causing subsequent RPCs to fail with deadline exceeded errors. (#9191)
  • Special Thanks: @​utkuozdemir
• client: Fix a bug where non-gRPC HTTP responses ending with an empty DATA frame failed the RPC with status code Internal instead of preserving the HTTP-mapped status code and response body. (#9217)
  • Special Thanks: @​chengxilo
• credentials: Validate metadata returned by per-RPC credentials, failing the RPC with status code Internal if invalid keys or values are found. Previously, invalid metadata from credentials was sent to the server in outgoing HTTP/2 requests. (#9202)
  • Special Thanks: @​buger
• credentials/sts: Prevent potential token leakage by disallowing HTTP redirects during STS token exchange. Previously, 3xx redirects were followed automatically, replaying the request body containing authentication tokens to the redirect destination. (#9299)
  • Special Thanks: @​nvxbug
• randomsubsetting: Ignore endpoints that contain no addresses. Previously, this could cause the policy to panic while computing hashes. (#9259)
  • Special Thanks: @​fallintoplace
• stats/otel: Ensure method names are populated in trace spans when metrics are disabled. Previously, running with tracing enabled and metrics disabled resulted in server trace spans lacking the RPC method name (recording only "Recv."). (#9262)
• transport: Return io.ErrUnexpectedEOF when EOF is encountered after partial header or message body reads. Previously, partial reads could return a plain io.EOF, failing to distinguish truncated data from a clean end of stream. (#9204)
  • Special Thanks: @​buger
• transport: Validate metadata supplied by balancers (in PickResult.Metadata) and resolver addresses, failing the RPC with status code Internal if invalid keys or values are found. Previously, invalid metadata from these sources was sent to the server in outgoing HTTP/2 requests. (#9203)
  • Special Thanks: @​buger

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Commits

• c9ab42c Change version to 1.85.0 (#9434)
• bfb7561 cherry pick (#9433) and (#9563) (#9566)
• 46a2db2 *: update dockerfiles to build using go1.26 to match go.mod (#9548)
• 076bb1c Cherrypick #9533 to v1.85.x. (#9534)
• baaf083 *: update the net package and go version (#9506)
• 678b9b3 Cherrypick #9385 to v1.85.x (#9504)
• 705f9b9 Cherry-pick #9425 into v1.85.x (#9438)
• 1648161 transport: stop read throttling due to controlBuf size, on the client (#9431)
• 1863b59 protoc-gen-go-grpc: Update supported Edition to 2026 (#9426)
• d331f11 server: release mutex while waiting for handlers in stop() (#9394)
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