fix(deps): update module google.golang.org/grpc to v1.77.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
google.golang.org/grpc	v1.76.0 -> v1.77.0

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Release Notes

grpc/grpc-go (google.golang.org/grpc)

v1.77.0: Release 1.77.0

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API Changes

• mem: Replace the Reader interface with a struct for better performance and maintainability. (#​8669)

Behavior Changes

• balancer/pickfirst: Remove support for the old pick_first LB policy via the environment variable GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_NEW_PICK_FIRST=false. The new pick_first has been the default since v1.71.0. (#​8672)

Bug Fixes

• xdsclient: Fix a race condition in the ADS stream implementation that could result in resource-not-found errors, causing the gRPC client channel to move to TransientFailure. (#​8605)
• client: Ignore HTTP status header for gRPC streams. (#​8548)
• client: Set a read deadline when closing a transport to prevent it from blocking indefinitely on a broken connection. (#​8534)
  • Special Thanks: @​jgold2-stripe
• client: Fix a bug where default port 443 was not automatically added to addresses without a specified port when sent to a proxy.
  • Setting environment variable GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_DEFAULT_PORT_FOR_PROXY_TARGET=false disables this change; please file a bug if any problems are encountered as we will remove this option soon. (#​8613)
• balancer/pickfirst: Fix a bug where duplicate addresses were not being ignored as intended. (#​8611)
• server: Fix a bug that caused overcounting of channelz metrics for successful and failed streams. (#​8573)
  • Special Thanks: @​hugehoo
• balancer/pickfirst: When configured, shuffle addresses in resolver updates that lack endpoints. Since gRPC automatically adds endpoints to resolver updates, this bug only affects custom LB policies that delegate to pick_first but don't set endpoints. (#​8610)
• mem: Clear large buffers before re-using. (#​8670)

Performance Improvements

• transport: Reduce heap allocations to reduce time spent in garbage collection. (#​8624, #​8630, #​8639, #​8668)
• transport: Avoid copies when reading and writing Data frames. (#​8657, #​8667)
• mem: Avoid clearing newly allocated buffers. (#​8670)

New Features

• outlierdetection: Add metrics specified in gRFC A91. (#​8644)
  • Special Thanks: @​davinci26, @​PardhuKonakanchi
• stats/opentelemetry: Add support for optional label grpc.lb.backend_service in per-call metrics (#​8637)
• xds: Add support for JWT Call Credentials as specified in gRFC A97. Set environment variable GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_XDS_BOOTSTRAP_CALL_CREDS=true to enable this feature. (#​8536)
  • Special Thanks: @​dimpavloff
• experimental/stats: Add support for up/down counters. (#​8581)

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ℹ Artifact update notice

File name: go.mod

In order to perform the update(s) described in the table above, Renovate ran the go get command, which resulted in the following additional change(s):

• 11 additional dependencies were updated

Details:

Package	Change
github.com/cncf/xds/go	v0.0.0-20250501225837-2ac532fd4443 -> v0.0.0-20251022180443-0feb69152e9f
github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4	v4.1.2 -> v4.1.3
go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk	v1.1.0 -> v1.2.1
go.opentelemetry.io/otel	v1.37.0 -> v1.38.0
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric	v1.37.0 -> v1.38.0
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk	v1.37.0 -> v1.38.0
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric	v1.37.0 -> v1.38.0
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace	v1.37.0 -> v1.38.0
golang.org/x/net	v0.46.0 -> v0.46.1-0.20251013234738-63d1a5100f82
google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api	v0.0.0-20251020155222-88f65dc88635 -> v0.0.0-20251022142026-3a174f9686a8
google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc	v0.0.0-20251020155222-88f65dc88635 -> v0.0.0-20251022142026-3a174f9686a8

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