Release Notes:
ExternalDeps: + Cherry-pick of flag/StarlarkSemantics related changes (#25850)
General: + Release 8.2.0 (2025-04-14)
OSS: + Update MODULE.bazel and other files after creating the new branch for 8.2.1 (#25848)
Performance: + Fix atomic writes of VirtualActionInputs on Windows (#25857)
Remote-Exec: + Fix crash on lost inputs that are symlinks (#25856)
Acknowledgements:
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim, Xùdōng Yáng.
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