The following release notes are still in the process of being updated and cleaned up.

Release 7.7.1rc1 (2025-11-06)

Release Notes:

ExternalDeps:

• Don't store local registry hashes in the lockfile (#27561)

General:

• Release 7.7.0 (2025-10-30)

Performance:

• Delete unrecognized files from the action cache on-disk directory when loading it into memory. (#27548)

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim.

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