Recently the gRPC Go maintainers shared their intention to deprecate grpc.Dial and grpc.DialContext and encourage users to use grpc.NewClient instead.

go-loggregator accepts arbitrary grpc.DialOptions, some of which will not be honoured after switching to grpc.NewClient. As a result when we switch we should major version bump our module.

Current plan is:

• Wait for gRPC Go project to cut a release that deprecates grpc.Dial and grpc.DialContext.
• Update the loggregator-api to reflect a new major version of go-loggregator, and re-generate the associated RPC code in go-loggregator.
• Bump our module version and cut a new release with release notes that indicate that specific dial options will no longer be honoured.