v2.11.0

New Libraries

We are happy to announce the following GA libraries. Unless specifically noted,
the APIs in these libraries are stable, and are ready for production use.

• Cloud Support API

Bigtable

• docs(bigtable): async Table APIs are stable (#11711)
• doc(bigtable): deprecate DataClient in doxygen (#11550)

Cloud Asset

The library has been re-enabled on Windows. See #11714 for details.

Spanner

• docs(spanner): some documentation tweaks (#11641)
• feat(spanner): tests and samples for drop-database protection (#11637)
• feat(spanner): make ResultSourceInterface public (#11636)

Storage

• fix(storage): consistent project id overrides (#11754)
• feat(storage): better error messages in signed URLs (#11741)
• feat(storage): offer mock client without decorators (#11697)
• feat(storage): lazy allocation for upload buffer (#11633)

Storage Transfer Service

The library has been re-enabled on macOS. See #8785 for details.

Common Libraries

• feat: use full jitter exp backoff policy in the generator (#11748)
• feat: add new constructor for exponential backoff policy (#11650)
• feat: avoid development dependencies with Bazel (#11724)
• docs(common): better exception descriptions (#11705)
• fix(rest): support rewinds in libcurl (#11703, #11709)
• fix: workaround curl_multi_poll returning an error on EINTR (#11649)
• docs(common): improve StatusOr<> documentation (#11631)
• fix: Correct exponential backoff ranges (#11529)
• fix: patch releases do not change the ABI (#11499)
• fix(rest): missing user-agent separator (#11473)