Add Build Trigger for 2.8-rc1 release (#9425)

Author: pgmoka

infra/ansible/config/vars.yaml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ cuda_compute_capabilities: 5.2,7.0,7.5,8.0,9.0
 llvm_debian_repo: bullseye
 clang_version: 17
 # PyTorch and PyTorch/XLA wheel versions.
-package_version: 2.8.0
+package_version: 2.9.0
 # If set to true, wheels will be renamed to $WHEEL_NAME-nightly-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl.
 nightly_release: false
 # Whether to preinstall libtpu in the PyTorch/XLA wheel. Ignored for GPU build.

infra/tpu-pytorch-releases/artifacts.auto.tfvars

@@ -4,6 +4,62 @@ manual_nightly_builds = [
 
 manual_versioned_builds = [
 
+
+  {
+    git_tag         = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    package_version = "2.8.0-rc1"
+    pytorch_git_rev = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    accelerator     = "tpu"
+    python_version  = "3.11"
+    bundle_libtpu   = "0"
+    cxx11_abi       = "1"
+  },
+  {
+    git_tag         = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    package_version = "2.8.0-rc1"
+    pytorch_git_rev = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    accelerator     = "tpu"
+    python_version  = "3.12"
+    bundle_libtpu   = "0"
+    cxx11_abi       = "1"
+  },
+  {
+    git_tag         = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    package_version = "2.8.0-rc1"
+    pytorch_git_rev = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    accelerator     = "tpu"
+    python_version  = "3.13"
+    bundle_libtpu   = "0"
+    cxx11_abi       = "1"
+  },
+  {
+    git_tag         = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    package_version = "2.8.0-rc1"
+    pytorch_git_rev = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    accelerator     = "cuda"
+    cuda_version    = "12.6"
+    python_version  = "3.11"
+    cxx11_abi       = "1"
+  },
+  {
+    git_tag         = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    package_version = "2.8.0-rc1"
+    pytorch_git_rev = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    accelerator     = "cuda"
+    cuda_version    = "12.6"
+    python_version  = "3.12"
+    cxx11_abi       = "1"
+  },
+  {
+    git_tag         = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    package_version = "2.8.0-rc1"
+    pytorch_git_rev = "v2.8.0-rc1"
+    accelerator     = "cuda"
+    cuda_version    = "12.6"
+    python_version  = "3.13"
+    cxx11_abi       = "1"
+  },
+
   {
     git_tag         = "v2.7.0"
     package_version = "2.7.0"

setup.py

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ def get_git_head_sha(base_dir):
 
 
 def get_build_version(xla_git_sha):
-  version = os.getenv('TORCH_XLA_VERSION', '2.8.0')
+  version = os.getenv('TORCH_XLA_VERSION', '2.9.0')
   if build_util.check_env_flag('GIT_VERSIONED_XLA_BUILD', default='TRUE'):
     try:
       version += '+git' + xla_git_sha[:7]