Abseil LTS branch, January 2025, Release Candidate 1

Abseil LTS 20250127.rc1

What's New:

• Added support for Bazel 8.0
• Added support for Bazel Platforms for better portability
• Added ABSL_ATTRIBUTE_VIEW and ABSL_ATTRIBUTE_OWNER for diagnosing certain lifetime issues
• Many performance improvements
• A security issue in hash container create/resize has been fixed. Note that the latest patch releases for previous LTS versions also address this issue.

Breaking Changes:

• Bazel BUILD files now reference repositories by their canonical names from the Bazel Central Registry. For example, Abseil is now @abseil-cpp instead of @com_google_absl, and GoogleTest is now @googletest instead of @com_google_googletest. Users still using the old WORKSPACE system may need to use repo_mapping on repositories that still use the old names. See 90a7ba6 for an example.

Other:

• This will be the last release to support C++14. Future releases will require at least C++17.

Known Issues

• None known at this time.

Baseline: 98ebd7e