chore(deps): upgrade gapic-generator-java to 2.8.0 and update gax-java to 2.18.1 (#342)

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PiperOrigin-RevId: 450543911

Source-Link: googleapis/googleapis@5528344

Source-Link: https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis-gen/commit/9f6775cab1958982b88967a43e5e806af0f135db
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java-accesscontextmanager/google-identity-accesscontextmanager/src/main/java/com/google/identity/accesscontextmanager/v1/AccessContextManagerClient.java

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 
 import com.google.api.core.ApiFuture;
 import com.google.api.core.ApiFutures;
-import com.google.api.core.BetaApi;
 import com.google.api.gax.core.BackgroundResource;
 import com.google.api.gax.longrunning.OperationFuture;
 import com.google.api.gax.paging.AbstractFixedSizeCollection;
@@ -140,7 +139,6 @@ public static final AccessContextManagerClient create(AccessContextManagerSettin
    * Constructs an instance of AccessContextManagerClient, using the given stub for making calls.
    * This is for advanced usage - prefer using create(AccessContextManagerSettings).
    */
-  @BetaApi("A restructuring of stub classes is planned, so this may break in the future")
   public static final AccessContextManagerClient create(AccessContextManagerStub stub) {
     return new AccessContextManagerClient(stub);
   }
@@ -156,7 +154,6 @@ protected AccessContextManagerClient(AccessContextManagerSettings settings) thro
     this.operationsClient = OperationsClient.create(this.stub.getOperationsStub());
   }
 
-  @BetaApi("A restructuring of stub classes is planned, so this may break in the future")
   protected AccessContextManagerClient(AccessContextManagerStub stub) {
     this.settings = null;
     this.stub = stub;
@@ -167,7 +164,6 @@ public final AccessContextManagerSettings getSettings() {
     return settings;
   }
 
-  @BetaApi("A restructuring of stub classes is planned, so this may break in the future")
   public AccessContextManagerStub getStub() {
     return stub;
   }

java-accesscontextmanager/google-identity-accesscontextmanager/src/main/java/com/google/identity/accesscontextmanager/v1/stub/AccessContextManagerStubSettings.java

@@ -749,7 +749,6 @@ public UnaryCallSettings<ReplaceAccessLevelsRequest, Operation> replaceAccessLev
     return deleteGcpUserAccessBindingOperationSettings;
   }
 
-  @BetaApi("A restructuring of stub classes is planned, so this may break in the future")
   public AccessContextManagerStub createStub() throws IOException {
     if (getTransportChannelProvider()
         .getTransportName()