Merge the latest main to protobuf-4.x-rc branch

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request performs a comprehensive update of dependency versions across the project, transitioning many internal components from SNAPSHOT to stable releases and upgrading several critical third-party libraries. It also introduces a new release configuration for the protobuf-4.x-rc branch and updates the changelog to document these changes, ensuring the project's dependencies are current and stable.

Highlights

• Dependency Version Stabilization: Numerous project dependencies across various pom.xml files, cloudbuild.yaml configurations, and Dockerfiles have been updated from their SNAPSHOT versions to stable release versions (e.g., 3.54.2-SNAPSHOT to 3.54.2). This includes core components like google-cloud-shared-dependencies, gapic-generator-java, api-common, gax, gax-grpc, gax-httpjson, proto-google-common-protos, grpc-google-common-protos, proto-google-iam-v*, grpc-google-iam-v*, and google-cloud-core.
• Core Library Upgrades: Several key third-party dependencies have been upgraded to newer versions. This includes gRPC (from 1.74.0 to 1.76.2), Google Auth Library (from 1.40.0 to 1.41.0), Google HTTP Client (from 1.47.1 to 2.0.2), Guava (from 33.4.8-jre to 33.5.0-jre), Protobuf (from 4.31.1 to 4.33.1), OpenTelemetry (from 1.55.0 to 1.57.0), Error Prone (from 2.43.0 to 2.45.0), and Tink (from 1.19.0 to 1.20.0).
• Release Please Configuration Update: The .github/release-please.yml file has been updated to include a new branch, protobuf-4.x-rc, with specific release configuration for java-yoshi type releases, enabling minor version bumps before major releases and GitHub release handling.
• Changelog and Manifest Updates: The CHANGELOG.md has been updated to reflect the 2.64.2 release, detailing a bug fix for gapic_metadata and the aforementioned dependency upgrades. The .release-please-manifest.json file also reflects the project's new version 2.64.2.
• Googleapis Commitish Update: The googleapis_commitish in generation_config.yaml has been updated to a new commit hash, indicating a synchronization with the upstream Google APIs repository.

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Code Review

This pull request merges changes from the main branch, primarily updating dependency versions and removing -SNAPSHOT suffixes in preparation for a release. The changes also include adding a new release branch protobuf-4.x-rc to the release-please configuration.

My review focuses on ensuring consistency across the updated configuration files. I've found a couple of areas that need attention:

• The changelog contains a redundant entry for a dependency upgrade.
• There are several version inconsistencies between dependencies.txt and the Maven pom.xml files.

Please address these points to ensure the project's configuration is consistent and the changelog is clear.

[gemini-code-assist]

There are several version mismatches between this file and gapic-generator-java-pom-parent/pom.xml. The comment on line 10 states that these should be consistent.

Mismatches with gapic-generator-java-pom-parent/pom.xml:

• com.google.code.gson:gson: 2.13.2 here vs 2.12.1 in pom.xml.
• com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java: 4.33.1 here vs 3.25.8 in pom.xml.
• io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-bom: 1.57.0 here vs 1.52.0 in pom.xml.
• com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations: 2.45.0 here vs 2.42.0 in pom.xml.
• org.threeten:threetenbp: 1.7.2 here vs 1.7.0 in pom.xml.
• org.slf4j:slf4j-api: 2.0.17 here vs 2.0.16 in pom.xml.

Please resolve these inconsistencies to ensure all dependency versions are aligned across the project configuration files.

[gemini-code-assist]

There are two separate entries for upgrading grpc. It would be clearer to have a single entry for the final version 1.76.2.

Also, for consistency, please use consistent capitalization for the commit messages (e.g., 'Upgrade' vs 'upgrade').

Suggested change

	* upgrade grpc to 1.76.1 ([#3993](https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/issues/3993)) ([958611e](https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/commit/958611e23460dba596160f3224d8588afdba6bc2))
	* Upgrade grpc to 1.76.2 ([#4006](https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/issues/4006)) ([a8060a2](https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/commit/a8060a263ba34556b8d4d347a57625849a6859bc))
	* Upgrade grpc to 1.76.2 ([#4006](https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/issues/4006)) ([a8060a2](https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/commit/a8060a263ba34556b8d4d347a57625849a6859bc))