Release Notes:
Core: + Prevent excessive thread creation in disk cache garbage collection (#24114)
ExternalDeps: + Remove DownloadManager instance from RegistryFactoryImpl. (#24228)
General: + Release 7.4.0 (2024-10-22)
Local-Exec: + Fix double encoding of inputs in worker request (#24123)
OSS: + fix: Fix trim_length in runfiles.bash (#24122) + docs(module): fix list of bullet points not rendering (#24132)
Performance: + Skip over runfiles middleman artifacts without a RunfilesSupplier (#24086)
Remote-Exec: + Correctly compute the number of threads to use for garbage collection. (#24111)
Rules-CPP: + Revert “Propagate linkopts of header-only libraries to cc_shared_library” (#24087) + Revert “Fix ml path for Windows clang-cl cc toolchain (#23406)” (#24211)
Rules-Java: + Expose last remaining private APIs for java rules migration (#24084) + Add missing private API for tokenizing javacopts (#24153)
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