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The flag was enabled in master as part of #8126. This PR enabled only the xDS endpoints support, leaving the new pickfirst policy flag disabled.

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  • xds: LB policies will receive additional addresses for endpoints which are specified in the additional_addresses field in the Endpoint message. The additional addresses will be present in the ResolverState.Endpoints passed to UpdateClientConnState method of the balancers. To disable this feature, set the environment variable GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_XDS_DUALSTACK_ENDPOINTS to false (case insensitive).

@arjan-bal arjan-bal added this to the 1.71 Release milestone Feb 28, 2025
@arjan-bal arjan-bal added Type: Feature New features or improvements in behavior Area: xDS Includes everything xDS related, including LB policies used with xDS. labels Feb 28, 2025
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easwars commented Feb 28, 2025

Why do we want to enable only one of the two flags?

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Why do we want to enable only one of the two flags?

All petiole policies use the new pickfirst for delegation. The only user-visible benefit of toggling the default pickfirst would be enabling Happy Eyeballs with a standalone pickfirst. After discussing with Doug and Mark, we decided it's acceptable to advertise xDS Dualstack support without changing the default pickfirst since known xDS pickfirst users do not want to use Dualstack.

Most gRPC users rely on the default pickfirst. By delaying its adoption as the default to a future release, we allow time to gather feedback from internal users and those using the master branch.

@easwars easwars assigned arjan-bal and unassigned dfawley Feb 28, 2025
@arjan-bal arjan-bal merged commit 012f8bf into grpc:v1.71.x Mar 3, 2025
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