v0.72.0

Bigtable

• Bigtable: publish emulator to maven central (#4106)

BigQuery

• BigQuery Storage: Add shim layer settings and configuration (#4022)
• Fix BigQuery NullPointerException when estimatedFields is empty (#3984)

Container

• Regenerate container client (#3979)

Dataproc

• Regenerate dataproc client - Adds workflow templating (#4110)

Datastore

• Datastore: Add skippedResults in QueryResults (#4093)

IoT

• Regenerate IoT client (#4069)

Storage

• Storage NIO: Add new retry options in CloudStorageConfiguration (#3869)
• Storage: Added feature to change host name of signed url (#3910)

Spanner

• Spanner: fix code formatting (#4105)

Implementation Changes

• Add missing fields on MonitoredResourceUtil (#3887)
• Add helpers to convert core Date class with java.util.Date class (#3911)

Dependencies

• [Snyk] Fix for 1 vulnerable dependencies (kr.motd.maven:os-maven-plugin) (#4097)

Documentation

• Cloud Asset fix README links (#3985)

Internal / Testing Changes

• Regenerate language client: remove unused imports (#4071)
• Regenerate speech client: remove unused imports (#4077)
• Bump next snapshot (#3981)
• Add synth metadata for many clients (#4020)
• Regenerate websecurityscanner client (#4080)
• Delay download of Bigtable emulator (#4102)
• Trace: list response returns empty list instead of null (#4079)
• fix: google-cloud-testing/google-cloud-gcloud-maven-plugin/pom.xml to reduce vulnerabilities (#4100)
• Update generated code: List responses return empty list instead of null (#4104)
• Moving surefire-junit4 out of the dependency lists to allow others to better run tests. (#4058)