Release 7.0.0-pre.20221204.2 (2022-12-09)

Baseline: de7b26a

Cherry picks:

• 4084671:
  Add support for crosstool feature to prefer PIC compiles even
  for optimized binaries. This can have performance penalty, but
  in configurations where dynamic linking is used for tests can
  lead to a substantially better sharing of artifacts between
  tests and binaries. In contrast to the existing --force_pic,
  this can be enabled per crosstool and respects whether PIC is
  available for the used crosstool.
• 7b752bf:
  Release 7.0.0-pre.20221204.2 (2022-12-09)

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