* [maven-release-plugin] prepare release v8.12.55

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Bumps [protobuf-java](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf) from 3.12.2 to 3.16.1.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/generate_changelog.py)
- [Commits](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/compare/v3.12.2...v3.16.1)

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Bumps [protobuf-java](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf) from 3.8.0 to 3.16.1.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/generate_changelog.py)
- [Commits](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/compare/v3.8.0...v3.16.1)

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* Fixing anchors

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* Readme update w.r.t new abseil-cpp dependency and fixing the absl-cpp version that we download.

* Reducing hash of commit to just working level

Currently, CMake is configured to download and build abseil from source
whenever `BUILD_GEOCODER` is set to `ON`. Let's allow users to use a
pre-existing installation of abseil by checking for one first before
attempting to download and build another one.

If CMake finds a pre-existing installation of abseil, it will use that
instead.

We need to allow the user to override `CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD` because they
may have built abseil with a newer standard than C++11. Attempting to
build libphonenumber with C++11 will fail if abseil was built with a
newer C++ standard.

Closes #2772.

A Ruby gem which plugs directly into Google's native C++ libphonenumber for extremely fast and robust phone number parsing, validation, and formatting. On average, most methods are 70x to 80x faster than other Ruby phone number libraries.

We've added a Salesforce port of this library written in Apex and adapted to Salesforce governor limits.

* Adding anchors for all FAQ entries (down to ###)

- Followup to PR #2773, where we started using official appengine Maven plugin than older ```maven-gae-plugin```
- ```appcfg``` script is deprecated and most of these works can be done through ```gcloud-appengine-sdk```
- More details in cl/333435946 (where we moved away from ```appcfg``` during the releases) and cl/xxxxx (We no more need any manual copy jar commands)

* Update CONTRIBUTING.md (we no longer accept metadata patches directly)

* Update making-metadata-changes.md

* Update making-metadata-changes.md

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* Removing old generated files when building new ones

* Removing old generated files when building new ones

* Removing old generated files when building new ones

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* [maven-release-plugin] prepare release v8.12.49

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* Metadata updates for release 8.12.49
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* M2M documentation update after NL M2M range support in mobile category

* Update FAQ.md

* removing duplicate target links

* Adding dependencies at the right level

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This reverts commit 299e3c53da.