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* feat: dynamically determine protobuf version in build.gradle

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* chore: Shutdown test resources

* chore: Clean up resources for the flaky test

* chore: Clean up test

* chore: Shutdown ChannelPool resources

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* chore: Clean up exception in runnable

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<h4>Incompatible changes</h4>
<p>Although this release bumps Guava's major version number, it makes <strong>no binary-incompatible changes to the <code>guava</code> artifact</strong>.</p>
<p>One change could cause issues for Widows users, and a few other changes could cause issues for users in more usual situations:</p>
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<li><strong>The new implementations of <code>Files.createTempDir</code> and <code>FileBackedOutputStream</code> <a href="https://redirect.github.com/google/guava/issues/6535">throw an exception under Windows</a>.</strong> This is fixed in <a href="https://togithub.com/google/guava/releases/tag/v32.0.1">32.0.1</a>. Sorry for the trouble.</li>
<li>This release makes a binary-incompatible change to a <code>@beta</code> API in the <strong>separate artifact</strong> <code>guava-testlib</code>. Specifically, we changed the return type of <code>TestingExecutors.sameThreadScheduledExecutor</code> to <code>ListeningScheduledExecutorService</code>. The old return type was a package-private class, which caused the Kotlin compiler to produce warnings. (dafaa3e435)</li>
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* feat: Remove @BetaApi for certain httpjson classes

* chore: Fix formatting issues

* chore: Fix formatting issues

* chore: Remove a few more @BetaApi annotations

* chore: Fix format issues

* chore: Revert BetaApi annotation for extraHeaders in gax

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* chore: Update all dependencies to new gax-httpjson version

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* chore: Add pagination test for httpjson

* chore: Fix comments

* chore: Add pageToken index as offset

* chore: Clean up pagination tests

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* chore: Fix test comments

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Discrepancy in guava version causing shared dependencies check failures.
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manual version bump to be consistent with #1774, #1775. #1776

**Summary of changes in PR:**
- upgrade guava to 32.0.1-jre
- upgrade google-http-client to 1.43.3 (with `j2objc-annotation:2.8`)
- [temp solution] exclude `j2objc-annotations` from `protobuf-java-util` dependencies
- upgrades `checker-qual` to 3.33.0, `j2objc-annotations` to 2.8 to be consistent
- add comment to remove temp solution on next `protobuf` upgrade

* build(deps): bump google-auth-library to 1.18.0

* fix: update dependencies.properties to auth 1.18.0

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Co-authored-by: Min Zhu <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: release-please[bot] <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>