Release Notes:
ExternalDeps: + Fall back to rctx.name if $original_name is empty (#25310)
General: + Release 8.1.0 (2025-02-13)
OSS: + Fix building binary launchers on windows with clang-cl (#25344) + Restore compatibility with any JDK 23 on Windows (#25348)
Remote-Exec: + Rollback of Use digest function matching the checksum in gRPC remote downloader (#25331)
Acknowledgements:
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as bazel.build machine account, Fabian Meumertzheim.
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