v2.5.4

What's Changed

Other

• feat: Client retries for unary calls and client streaming calls by @johanandren in #2046
• feat: Blocking APIs for virtual thread EC in Akka SDK by @johanandren in #2052
• docs: improve example for client by-config by @sebastian-alfers in #2031
• chore: Mark java MetadataImpl constructor stable internal by @johanandren in #2032
• bump: proto-google-common-protos 2.50.1 (was 2.50.0) by @scala-steward in #2028
• bump: sbt-assembly 2.3.1 (was 2.3.0) by @scala-steward in #2027
• bump: logback-classic 1.5.16 (was 1.5.15) by @scala-steward in #2026
• bump: gh actions cache plugin 4.2.0 by @johanandren in #2036
• bump: slf4j-api 2.0.17 (was 2.0.16) by @scala-steward in #2042
• bump: sbt-twirl, twirl-api 2.0.8 (was 2.0.7) by @scala-steward in #2040
• bump: proto-google-common-protos 2.53.0 (was 2.50.1) by @scala-steward in #2038
• bump: sbt, scripted-plugin 1.10.10 (was 1.10.7) by @scala-steward in #2041
• bump: grpc-core, grpc-interop-testing, ... 1.71.0 (was 1.70.0) by @scala-steward in #2039
• bump: logback-classic 1.5.17 (was 1.5.16) by @scala-steward in #2037
• bump: Maven dependency plugin 3.7.1 by @johanandren in #2043
• build: Don't cancel samples run because of validate workflow by @johanandren in #2044
• docs: Paradox Theme 24.10.7 (forum link) by @ennru in #2045
• bump: sbt-ci-release 1.9.3 (was 1.9.2) by @scala-steward in #2048
• bump: sbt, scripted-plugin 1.10.11 (was 1.10.10) by @scala-steward in #2050
• bump: logback-classic 1.5.18 (was 1.5.17) by @scala-steward in #2047
• bump: proto-google-common-protos 2.54.1 (was 2.53.0) by @scala-steward in #2049
• chore: Gradle build had incompatible Akka module version by @johanandren in #2054
• chore: License change and sample bump for 2.5.4 by @johanandren in #2056

Full Changelog: v2.5.3...v2.5.4