Release 2.8.0-rc0

Major Features and Improvements

• No major features or improvements.

Breaking Changes

• No breaking changes

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Replace int64 with int64_t and uint64 with uint64_t. (commit: 21360c7)
• Replace remaining deprecated int64 with int64_t. (commit: d34dee2)
• update to latest benchmark API changes (commit: 860e101)
• Internal changes. (commit: 916b252)
• Remove unused "using" declarations. (commit: 3e05381)
• 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)
• Update a precondition failure log message. (commit: 4f63dbf)
• Internal change. (commit: 6ece2f5)
• 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)
• Update version for 2.8.0-rc0 release. (#1956) (commit: 297818a)