Update Google BOM to 26.79.0

[kennknowles]

Used bomupgrader.py to update BOM and checked with beam-linkage-check.sh origin/master update-google-bom ""

> Task :checkJavaLinkage
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
Mar 31, 2026 7:18:55 PM com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.ClassDumper findSymbolReferences
WARNING: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.15.4 has 1 (out of 73) incompatible class files (class file major version is outside 45 <= v <= 52).
Mar 31, 2026 7:18:56 PM com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.ClassDumper findSymbolReferences
WARNING: com.github.luben:zstd-jni:1.5.6-3 has 1 (out of 36) incompatible class files (class file major version is outside 45 <= v <= 52).
Mar 31, 2026 7:18:58 PM com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.ClassDumper findSymbolReferences
WARNING: org.codehaus.woodstox:stax2-api:4.2.1 has 1 (out of 125) incompatible class files (class file major version is outside 45 <= v <= 52).
Mar 31, 2026 7:19:01 PM com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.ClassDumper findSymbolReferences
WARNING: org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.34 has 1 (out of 178) incompatible class files (class file major version is outside 45 <= v <= 52).
Mar 31, 2026 7:19:02 PM com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.ClassDumper findSymbolReferences
WARNING: jaxen:jaxen:1.1.6 has 1 (out of 214) incompatible class files (class file major version is outside 45 <= v <= 52).
Mar 31, 2026 7:19:02 PM com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.ClassDumper findSymbolReferences
WARNING: javax.xml.stream:stax-api:1.0-2 has 35 (out of 37) incompatible class files (class file major version is outside 45 <= v <= 52).
Mar 31, 2026 7:19:02 PM com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.ClassDumper findSymbolReferences
WARNING: org.glassfish:javax.transaction:3.1 has 3 (out of 18) incompatible class files (class file major version is outside 45 <= v <= 52).
Mar 31, 2026 7:19:02 PM com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.ClassDumper findSymbolReferences
WARNING: jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api:2.3.2 has 1 (out of 111) incompatible class files (class file major version is outside 45 <= v <= 52).
Mar 31, 2026 7:19:02 PM com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.ClassDumper findSymbolReferences
WARNING: javax.ws.rs:javax.ws.rs-api:2.1.1 has 1 (out of 138) incompatible class files (class file major version is outside 45 <= v <= 52).
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[Incubating] Problems report is available at: file:///usr/local/google/home/klk/GitHub/apache/beam-release/build/reports/problems/problems-report.html
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BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 2m 41s
1933 actionable tasks: 319 executed, 1614 up-to-date
+ RESULT=0
+ set -e
+ set +x
Tue Mar 31 07:19:22 PM UTC 2026: Done: 0
No new linkage errors

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This pull request updates several Google Cloud Platform library dependencies to ensure compatibility and leverage the latest features and fixes. The changes were verified using the project's standard linkage check tools to ensure no new dependency conflicts were introduced.

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• Dependency Update: Updated the Google Cloud Platform libraries BOM to version 26.79.0.
• Library Version Bumps: Updated gax_version to 2.76.0, grpc_version to 1.76.3, and google_api_services_storage to v1-rev20260204-2.0.0.
• Datastore Client Update: Updated google_cloud_datastore_v1_proto_client to version 2.37.0.

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[Abacn]

Looks like google cloud auth had breaking change, causing some integration test failures

Caused by: java.io.IOException: ComputeEngineCredentials cannot find the metadata server. This is likely because code is not running on Google Compute Engine.
	at com.google.auth.oauth2.ComputeEngineCredentials.getMetadataResponse(ComputeEngineCredentials.java:482)
...
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: metadata.google.internal
	at java.base/java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:229)
	at java.base/java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:615)

[Amar3tto]

Restarted checks, let's see

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