chore(main): release 2.50.0

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2.50.0

2.50.0 (2024-11-13)

Features

• enable selective generation based on service config include list (#3323) (0cddadb)
• Update Gapic-Generator to generate libraries using java.time methods (#3321) (b21c9a4)

Bug Fixes

• Fix flaky test ScheduledRetryingExecutorTest.testCancelOuterFutureAfterStart (#3335) (e73740d)
• instantiate GaxProperties at build time to ensure we get the protobuf version (#3365) (bb2a3be)
• protobuf version not always getting set in headers (#3322) (7f6e470)
• use BuildKit instead of legacy builder to build the Hermetic Build images (#3338) (222fb45)

Dependencies

• update google auth library dependencies to v1.30.0 (#3367) (a31c682)
• update grpc dependencies to v1.68.1 (#3240) (c8e3941)

Documentation

• fix list num (#3356) (b7d6296)
• hermetic-build: indicate usage of Docker Buildkit in development guide (#3337) (01e742d)
• modify hermetic build docs (#3331) (25023af)

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Quality Gate passed for 'gapic-generator-java-root'

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Quality Gate passed for 'java_showcase_integration_tests'

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