07-24-2019 16:35 PDT

- Allow kwargs to be passed to create_channel (via synth). ([#8393](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8393))

- Remove classifier for Python 3.4 for end-of-life. ([#7535](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7535))

- Remove unused message exports. ([#7269](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7269))

- Protoc-generated serialization update. ([#7085](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7085))

- Pick up stub docstring fix in GAPIC generator. ([#6973](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6973))

- Add 'options_' argument to clients' 'get_iam_policy'; pin black version (via synth). ([#8655](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8655))

- Add 'client_options' support, update list method docstrings (via synth). ([#8512](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8512))

- Bump minimum version for google-api-core to 1.14.0. ([#8709](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8709))

- Update pin for 'grpc-google-iam-v1' to 0.12.3+. ([#8647](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8647))

- Link to googleapis.dev documentation in READMEs. ([#8705](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8705))

- Add compatibility check badges to READMEs. ([#8288](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8288))

- Update docstrings (via synth). ([#7867](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7867))

- Updated client library documentation URLs. ([#7307](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7307))

- Update copyright: 2018 -> 2019. ([#7147](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7147))

- Add docs job to publish to googleapis.dev. ([#8464](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8464))

- Declare encoding as utf-8 in pb2 files (via synth). [#8354](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8354))

- Add disclaimer to auto-generated template files (via synth). ([#8316](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8316))

- Suppress checking 'cov-fail-under' in nox default session (via synth). ([#8243](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8243))

- Fix coverage in 'types.py' (via synth). ([#8155](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8155))

- Blacken noxfile.py, setup.py (via synth). ([#8125](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8125))

- Add empty lines (via synth). ([#8060](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8060))

- Exclude docs/index.rst from move in synth. ([#7835](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7835))

- Reorder methods, add nox session `docs` (via synth). ([#7773](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7773))

- Copy lintified proto files (via synth). ([#7448](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7448))

- Add clarifying comment to blacken nox target. ([#7394](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7394))

- Add protos as an artifact to library ([#7205](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/7205))