v1.19.0

Bazelisk v1.19.0 comes with two significant changes:

• MODULE.bazel and REPO.bazel files are now obeyed (#503)
• Users will see a progress bar during binary downloads (#511)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @crncnnr and @katre!

v1.18.0

Bazelisk v1.18.0 contains some bug fixes and internal cleanups. Most notably, it uses consistent Bazel paths to avoid spurious rebuilds when downloading the same Bazel binary from a different mirror (#465).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @alexeagle, @fmeum, @illicitonion, @sluongng and @wisechengyi!

v1.17.0

Bazelisk v1.17.0 comes with updated dependencies, minor bug fixes and new features:

The Go version...

• ... supports custom download URLs via the BAZELISK_FORMAT_URL env variable (#427)
• ... now only downloads Bazel when necessary (#438)
• ... can check the hash of downloaded binaries via the BAZELISK_VERIFY_SHA256 env variable (#441)
• ... makes it easier to find out which Bazel change broke your build with the --bisect option (#451)
• ... is more robust in the face of transient GCS download issues (#459)

The Python version now properly recognises WORKSPACE.bazel files (#443).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @jmmv and @jwnimmer-tri!

v1.16.0

Bazelisk v1.16.0 comes with updated dependencies, minor bug fixes and some improvements:

The Go version...

• ... no longer causes 'file name too long' errors on MacOS (#396),
• ... works correctly when no GitHub token is specified (#412),
• ... now supports tools/bazel.ps1 and tools/bazel.bat on Windows (#417).

The Python version now works on Linux arm64 machines (#397).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @bduffany, @chenrui333, @gregmagolan, @rpwoodbu, @sudowork and @UebelAndre !

v1.15.0

v1.15.0 comes with several notable changes to the Go version of Bazelisk:

• Features:
  • Added support for users-specific .bazeliskrc files, in addition to .bazeliskrc files in the workspace root (#390).
• Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where Bazelisk ignored the tools/bazel wrapper (#345).
  • Startup options are now correctly passed to bazel clean and bazel shutdown, thus ensuring that the commands affect the correct Bazel server (#362).
  • Suppressed incorrect fallback warnings on Apple Silicon when fetching Bazel binaries built at specific commits (#392).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @JaredNeil, @jbms, @LINKIWI, @meteorcloudy and @Vertexwahn!

v1.14.0

This release brings two small improvements:

• On Linux, Bazelisk now downloads Bazel binaries built on CentOS 7, thus ensuring compatibility with older Ubuntu versions such as 14.04 and 16.04.
• Everyone who uses Bazelisk as a library can now dynamically compute Bazel flags based on the resolved Bazel version. (#358). Thank you @tjgq!

v1.13.2

This release fixes performance issues when using floating version identifiers (e.g. "5.x").

We'd like to thank @chenrui333 for their contributions to this release.

v1.13.1

This patch release fixes "go build" / "go get" of Bazelisk. Unfortunately v1.13.0 could only be built with Bazel.

v1.13.0

This release makes it easier to run Bazel with incompatible flags by introducing the BAZELISK_INCOMPATIBLE_FLAGS environment variable (#349).

It also contains some minor maintenance / cleanup changes.

v1.12.2

This is a patch release that improves error messages wrt unsupported arm64 platforms.