Noah Seger

Exactly where this problem occurs in REST proxy: https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-rest/blob/master/kafka-rest/src/main/java/io/confluent/kafkarest/controllers/SchemaRecordSerializerImpl.java#L123

Some prior art: https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es/blob/main/docs/runtime_api.md#timestamp I think the helper approach also has some benefits because automatically converting to Date is lossy, like you mentioned. But I do think that for clients...

@bufdev say I have two protobufs like: ```protobuf syntax = "proto3"; package examples.v1alpha; message AlphaDependency { string foo = 1; } ``` ```protobuf syntax = "proto3"; import "examples/v1alpha/dependency.proto" package examples.v1;...

Ah yes, understood — we did enable `ignore_unstable_packages` because we need to evolve alpha versions in breaking ways. But to be clear, the feature request isn't to inspect the alpha...

Thank you all so much! Upgrading now.

@sagikazarmark thanks so much for validating — yes, of course we can contribute a PR :) It might be a few weeks but will be a big help if you...