Release 7.3.2rc1 (2024-09-27)

Bazel 7.3.2 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

Java

• Add support for using the java rules from @rules_java (#23779)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

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Release 7.3.1 (2024-08-19)

Bazel 7.3.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

ExternalDeps

• Fixed the lockfile always being considered out of date when --incompatible_use_plus_in_repo_names is set. (#23281)
• Fixed a crash when vendoring alias targets. (#23309)

Performance

• Revert "Deduplicate locally executed path mapped spawns” (#23290)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.

Release 7.3.1rc2 (2024-08-14)

Bazel 7.3.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

ExternalDeps

• Fixed the lockfile always being considered out of date when --incompatible_use_plus_in_repo_names is set. (#23281)
• Fixed a crash when vendoring alias targets. (#23309)

Performance

• Revert "Deduplicate locally executed path mapped spawns” (#23290)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.

Release 7.3.1rc1 (2024-08-13)

Bazel 7.3.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

ExternalDeps

• Fixed the lockfile always being considered out of date when --incompatible_use_plus_in_repo_names is set. (#23281)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.

Release 7.3.0 (2024-08-12)

Bazel 7.3.0 is a minor LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

External Deps

• Bazel now supports vendoring external dependencies with Bzlmod, see https://bazel.build/external/vendor for details. (#22794)
• Added a new flag, --incompatible_use_plus_in_repo_names, which uses the plus character (+) instead of the tilde (~) in canonical repo names. This flag will be flipped to true in Bazel 8.0. (#23127)
• The extract method is now available on module_ctx. (#22825)

Performance

• Experimental support for path mapping CppCompile actions can be enabled via --modify_execution_info=CppCompile=+supports-path-mapping. For more information, refer to the discussion #22658. (#22876)
• Actions that become identical when path mapped are now deduplicated during local execution (#21043)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Cornelius Riemenschneider, David Sanderson, Fabian Meumertzheim, Honnix, Jordan Mele, Laurent Le Brun, and Simon Mavi Stewart.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.

Release 7.3.0rc2 (2024-08-07)

Bazel 7.3.0 is a minor LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

External Deps

• Bazel now supports vendoring external dependencies with Bzlmod, see https://bazel.build/external/vendor for details. (#22794)
• Added a new flag, --incompatible_use_plus_in_repo_names, which uses the plus character (+) instead of the tilde (~) in canonical repo names. This flag will be flipped to true in Bazel 8.0. (#23127)
• The extract method is now available on module_ctx. (#22825)

Performance

• Experimental support for path mapping CppCompile actions can be enabled via --modify_execution_info=CppCompile=+supports-path-mapping. For more information, refer to the discussion #22658. (#22876)
• Actions that become identical when path mapped are now deduplicated during local execution (#21043)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Cornelius Riemenschneider, David Sanderson, Fabian Meumertzheim, Honnix, Jordan Mele, Laurent Le Brun, and Simon Mavi Stewart.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.

Release 7.3.0rc1 (2024-07-29)

Bazel 7.3.0 is a minor LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

External Deps

• Bazel now supports vendoring external dependencies with Bzlmod, see https://bazel.build/external/vendor for details. (#22794)
• Added a new flag, --incompatible_use_plus_in_repo_names, which uses the plus character (+) instead of the tilde (~) in canonical repo names. This flag will be flipped to true in Bazel 8.0. (#23127)
• The extract method is now available on module_ctx. (#22825)

Performance

• Experimental support for path mapping CppCompile actions can be enabled via --modify_execution_info=CppCompile=+supports-path-mapping. For more information, refer to the discussion #22658. (#22876)
• Actions that become identical when path mapped are now deduplicated during local execution (#21043)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Cornelius Riemenschneider, David Sanderson, Fabian Meumertzheim, Honnix, Jordan Mele, Laurent Le Brun, and Simon Mavi Stewart.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.

Release 7.2.1 (2024-06-25)

Bazel 7.2.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

Android

• Replace //external:android/d8_jar_import with "@android_gmaven_r8//jar" (#22699)

External Deps

• Fix crash on IOException in SingleExtensionEvalFunction (#22697)
• You can now discard previous overrides for --override_repository and --override_module by specifying an empty path. For example, if --override_repository=myrepo=/foo is followed by --override_repository=myrepo=, then myrepo will not be overridden. (#22784)
• Overlay files specified in source.json are now assumed to be under the overlay subdirectory. (#22823)
• Fixed an issue with the WORKSPACE file still being evaluated when --noenable_workspace is set. (#22837)

Remote Execution

• Fix an NPE with the compact execution log and coverage (#22707)
• Retry on connection reset error for http cache. (#22785)

Local Execution

• Fix permissions on tree artifact subdirectories as needed to move them out of the sandbox. (#22806)

Performance

• Do not fail a sandboxed spawn for missing execution statistics (#22790)

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim and Simon Mavi Stewart.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.

Release 7.2.1rc2 (2024-06-21)

Bazel 7.2.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

Android

• Replace //external:android/d8_jar_import with "@android_gmaven_r8//jar" (#22699)

External Deps

• Fix crash on IOException in SingleExtensionEvalFunction (#22697)
• You can now discard previous overrides for --override_repository and --override_module by specifying an empty path. For example, if --override_repository=myrepo=/foo is followed by --override_repository=myrepo=, then myrepo will not be overridden. (#22784)
• Overlay files specified in source.json are now assumed to be under the overlay subdirectory. (#22823)
• Fixed an issue with the WORKSPACE file still being evaluated when --noenable_workspace is set. (#22837)

Remote Execution

• Fix an NPE with the compact execution log and coverage (#22707)
• Retry on connection reset error for http cache. (#22785)

Local Execution

• Fix permissions on tree artifact subdirectories as needed to move them out of the sandbox. (#22806)

Performance

• Do not fail a sandboxed spawn for missing execution statistics (#22790)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim and Simon Mavi Stewart.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.

Release 7.2.1rc1 (2024-06-12)

Bazel 7.2.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

Android

• Replace //external:android/d8_jar_import with "@android_gmaven_r8//jar" (#22699)

External Deps

• Fix crash on IOException in SingleExtensionEvalFunction (#22697)
• Treat missing repo boundary files as transient errors (#22701)

Remote Execution

• Fix an NPE with the compact execution log and coverage (#22707)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim.

Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.

Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.

Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.