Release 7.0.0-pre.20221204.2 (2022-12-09)

Baseline: de7b26a

Cherry picks:

   + 4084671:
     Add support for crosstool feature to prefer PIC compiles even
     for optimized binaries. This can have performance penalty, but
     in configurations where dynamic linking is used for tests can
     lead to a substantially better sharing of artifacts between
     tests and binaries. In contrast to the existing --force_pic,
     this can be enabled per crosstool and respects whether PIC is
     available for the used crosstool.

Incompatible changes:

  - --experimental_replay_action_out_err is not a no-op.
  - `cquery --output=files` also outputs source files.
  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
    #16729 for details.
  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
    #16729 for details.
  - `--incompatible_always_include_files_in_data` is flipped to true.
    See #16654 for details.

Important changes:

  - Fixes a bug where some compilation flags would not be applied to
    a cc_test

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alex Eagle, aryeh, Christopher Sauer, Fabian Meumertzheim, hvadehra, Keith Smiley, Roger Hu, Ulrik Falklof, Xavier Bonaventura.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+## Release 7.0.0-pre.20221204.2 (2022-12-09)
+
+```
+Baseline: de7b26acfdfcd9c36ec957305a889ac29f0da30e
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + 40846718e4f54c28fddc063b80b5ea30a82988c1:
+     Add support for crosstool feature to prefer PIC compiles even
+     for optimized binaries. This can have performance penalty, but
+     in configurations where dynamic linking is used for tests can
+     lead to a substantially better sharing of artifacts between
+     tests and binaries. In contrast to the existing --force_pic,
+     this can be enabled per crosstool and respects whether PIC is
+     available for the used crosstool.
+```
+
+Incompatible changes:
+
+  - --experimental_replay_action_out_err is not a no-op.
+  - `cquery --output=files` also outputs source files.
+  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
+    https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/16729 for details.
+  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
+    https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/16729 for details.
+  - `--incompatible_always_include_files_in_data` is flipped to true.
+    See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/16654 for details.
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - Fixes a bug where some compilation flags would not be applied to
+    a cc_test
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alex Eagle, aryeh, Christopher Sauer, Fabian Meumertzheim, hvadehra, Keith Smiley, Roger Hu, Ulrik Falklof, Xavier Bonaventura.
+
 ## Release 7.0.0-pre.20221123.2 (2022-12-08)
 
 ```