v0.12.4

PROST! is a Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language. prost generates simple, idiomatic Rust code from proto2 and proto3 files.

This patch update brings new features and fixes:

• Bump MSRV to 1.70 (minimum supported Rust version)
• Rename cargo feature prost-derive to derive (#992)
• Add @generated comment on top of generated files (#935)
• Optimize implementation of prost::Name when generated by prost-build (#956)

Dependencies

• build(deps): Allow itertools 0.12 (#948)
• build(deps): Allow heck 0.5 (#1012)
• build(deps): Allow multimap 0.10 (#1013)

Documentation

• Improve protoc not found error message (#937)
• build: Add development container config (#949)
• docs: Fixed README typos (#952 / #967 / #970)

Internal

• chore: Fix minimal versions (#920)
• fix: fq_message_name should begin with one dot (#981)
• improve encode_varint performance by bounding its loop (#940)
• style: Remove duplicate function call (#989)
• test: Improve test decode_varint_slow (#977)
• chore: Add dep: prefix to feature dependencies (#919)
• Minor clippy lint fixes. (#1006)
• chore: Use taiki-e/install-action to setup cargo-machete (#909)
• chore: Remove which dependency. (#962)
• chore: Update to actions/checkout@v4 (#910)