| # Protocol Buffers - Protobuf Editions design documents | |
| This directory contains historical design documents that describe plans for | |
| implementing Protobuf Editions. For an up-to-date overview of this feature of | |
| Protocol Buffers, see | |
| [Protobuf Editions Overview](https://protobuf.dev/editions/overview/). | |
| These files represent the state that the original documents were in at the time | |
| that they were published to this repository. While some updates *may* be made to | |
| the files after their initial upload, you should consider the possibility that | |
| they are outdated as you read them. These are purely for historical value and | |
| should not be treated as documentation of the current state. | |
| Note that the authors listed in the topics were the authors of the *original* | |
| version of the document; it may have changed since they last worked on the | |
| document. | |
| ## Design Documents | |
| The following topics are in this repository: | |
| * [What are Protobuf Editions?](what-are-protobuf-editions.md) | |
| * [Life of an Edition](life-of-an-edition.md) | |
| * [Edition Lifetimes](edition-lifetimes.md) | |
| * [Protobuf Editions Design: Features](protobuf-editions-design-features.md) | |
| * [Editions: Life of a Featureset](editions-life-of-a-featureset.md) | |
| * [Edition Zero Features](edition-zero-features.md) | |
| * [Minimum Required Edition](minimum-required-edition.md) | |
| * [Protobuf Editions for Schema Producers](protobuf-editions-for-schema-producers.md) | |
| * [Stricter Schemas with Editions](stricter-schemas-with-editions.md) | |
| * [Edition Zero: JSON Handling](edition-zero-json-handling.md) | |
| * [Edition Zero: Converged Semantics](edition-zero-converged-semantics.md) | |
| * [Edition Zero Feature: Enum Field Closedness](edition-zero-feature-enum-field-closedness.md) | |
| * [C++ APIs for Edition Zero](cpp-apis-for-edition-zero.md) | |
| * [Java Lite For Editions](java-lite-for-editions.md) | |
| * [Edition Evolution](edition-evolution.md) | |
| * [Edition Naming](edition-naming.md) | |
| * [Editions Feature Visibility](editions-feature-visibility.md) | |
| * [Legacy Syntax Editions](legacy-syntax-editions.md) | |
| * [Editions: Feature Extension Layout](editions-feature-extension-layout.md) | |
| * [Editions: Group Migration Issues](group-migration-issues.md) |