6.0.0 (2025-04-22)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• migrate to Node 18 (#1582)

Features

• Add fields and the BackupType proto for Hot Backups (#1439) (433a8e3)
• Add MergeToCell to Mutation APIs (433a8e3)
• Add min, max, hll aggregators and more types (433a8e3)
• Add plumbing PR for client side metrics to support the open telemetry instruments (#1569) (c37a451)
• Add the MetricsCollector for client side metrics (#1566) (d475ef2)
• Add the plumbing for application blocking latencies client side metrics (#1575) (967f440)
• Bigtable authorized views requests on the Data plane (#1509) (da373b5)
• Move the metrics handler fixture (#1570) (c97ebcc)
• Publish ProtoRows Message (433a8e3)
• Publish the Cloud Bigtable ExecuteQuery API (433a8e3)
• Update Go Bigtable import path (433a8e3)
• Update Go Datastore import path (433a8e3)

Bug Fixes

• Address assertion error in TestReadRows_Retry_LastScannedRow conformance test (#1521) (0552638)
• Check and mutate generic header conformance test (#1551) (7f1099a)
• Conformance test sample rowkeys generic deadline (#1562) (2fdf98f)
• Fix plumbing errors for client side metrics collection (#1583) (574c2f4)
• Fix TestReadRows_Generic_CloseClient conformance test by passing grpc status codes for closed client errors (#1524) (8524174)
• Paused scan test is now fixed (#1539) (d009a8f)
• Sample rowkey generic header conformance test (#1550) (6ef7671)
• TestMutateRow_Generic_Headers (#1540) (f6176c1)
• Update owlbot.py to exculde sync repo (#1549) (f1ad565)
• Update sync-repo-settings.yaml to make owl bot optional (#1547) (d745412)
• Use the universe domain if it is provided by the user (#1563) (d26ecb8)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Migrate to Node 18 (#1582) (e50b67d)