v2.8.0-rc0

Release 2.8.0-rc0

Major Features and Improvements

• Upgrade Sentencepiece to v0.1.96
• Adds new trimmer ShrinkLongestTrimmer

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Upgrade bazel to 4.2.2
• Create .bazelversion file to guarantee using correct version
• (Generated change) Update tf.Text versions and/or docs.
• Add Apple Silicon support for manual builds.
• Update configure.sh
• Only Apple Silicon will be installed with tensorflow-macos
• Fix merge error & add SP patch for building on Windows
• Fix inclusion of missing libraries for Mac & Windows
• Update word_embeddings.ipynb
• Update classify_text_with_bert.ipynb
• Update tensorflow_text tutorials to new preprocessing layer symbol path
• Fixes typo in guide
• Update Apple Silicon's requires.
• release script to use tf nighly
• Fix typo in ragged tensor link.
• Update requires for setup. It wasn't catching non-M1 Macs.

Thanks to our Contributors

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as:

Abhijeet Manhas, chunduriv, Dean Wyatte, Feiteng, jaymessina3, Mao, Olivier Bacs, RenuPatelGoogle, Steve R. Sun, Stonepia, sun1638650145, Tharaka De Silva, thuang513, Xiaoquan Kong