Release 2.8.0

Major Features and Improvements

• No major features or improvements.

Breaking Changes

• No breaking changes

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Force-allow labels for the models which are not yet loaded. The feature is meant to be used for non-prod environments only as it may break the serving until relevant models are not loaded yet. (commit: 988bbce)
• Update CreateRPC API interface. (commit: 2e7ca90)
• Add --tensorflow_session_config_file flag to tf serving model server to support custom SessionConfig (commit: 342a808)
• Add --experimental_cc_shared_library by default to all builds. (commit: 49b138f)
• Add --num_request_iterations_for_warmup flag (fixes #1949) (commit: 2a55aec)