Release 2.11.0-rc0

Major Features and Improvements

• No major features or improvements.

Breaking Changes

• No breaking changes.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• No-op for public code. (commit: 20655b5)
• Removed net_http/client/public/* now that all the users have been migrated to test_client/ (commit: e64a73a)
• Fix the bug when accessing concat.tensor_data() outside its lifecycle (commit: cc37200)
• BUILD cleanup (commit: 9e81e7b)
• BUILD cleanup (commit: 8235ed8)
• Update TF Text to v2.8.2. (commit: 31204d6)
• Replace tensorflow/core/lib/core/blocking_counter in favor of the one from tensorflow/platform. (commit: 4ed7c5c)
• Update TF Text to v2.9.0. (commit: e88506a)
• Cleaning up BUILD files to remove "loose" headers. (commit: c2cd4c9)
• Remove the unnecessary dependency (commit: d976a37)
• Use value instead of ValueOrDie. (commit: b48e6e7)
• Update TF Text to v2.9.0. (commit: a73f292)
• Replace tensorflow::Status::OK() with tensorflow::OkStatus(). (commit: 49ac8ac)
• Replace tensorflow::Status::OK() with tensorflow::OkStatus(). (commit: e8be1a7)
• Replace tensorflow::Status::OK() with tensorflow::OkStatus(). (commit: 88bd9d1)
• Add support for TensorFlow Decision Forests models. (commit: 4592081)
• Remove special handling of tflite model when creating batching (commit: 2d39f8c)
• Improve batching test in following ways: (commit: 68d4d39)
• Split proto helper function to its own util library. (commit: 0138626)
• Created net_http/public folder for shared files and updated files in net_http and model_servers/http_server.cc to match. Also removed old directories from net_http/client to make way for new client API and implementation. (commit: 8086d33)
• Updating a reference to Env post-refactor. (commit: 728474f)
• Replace tensorflow::Status::OK() with tensorflow::OkStatus(). (commit: 9861f7f)
• Experimental support for per-model batching params. (commit: 94f2d69)
• tensorflow-serving-api python package requires Python >= 3.7 (support for prior versions has been dropped). (commit: 30ea18d)
• Replace tensorflow::Status::OK() with tensorflow::{Status, OkStatus}(). (commit: 6393b29)
• Open up http_server_clients package group for easier 3P (commit: 66b199b)