2 Releases published by 1 person

• 8.3.1rc2

  published Jun 27, 2025

• 8.3.1

  published Jun 30, 2025

14 Pull requests merged by 4 people

• [8.4.0] Forward --host_jvmopt to the exec configuration

  #26444 merged Jul 2, 2025

• [8.4.0] Extend BazelFlagInfo with additional metadata

  #26441 merged Jul 1, 2025

• Release 9.0.0 pre.20250620.1rc1

  #26431 merged Jul 1, 2025

• [8.4.0] Update MODULE.bazel and .bazelversion after creating the new branch, release-8.4.0

  #26365 merged Jul 1, 2025

• [8.4.0] Add helper libraries in Java tools to project view

  #26393 merged Jun 30, 2025

• [8.4.0] Add --incompatible_compact_repo_mapping_manifest

  #26420 merged Jun 30, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix fast path in repo contents cache

  #26428 merged Jun 27, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix bazel mod tidy handling of Unicode filenames

  #26392 merged Jun 27, 2025

• Attempt to fix Bazel CI failure on Ubuntu

  #26395 merged Jun 27, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix hang with force fetching + repo contents cache

  #26413 merged Jun 27, 2025

• [8.4.0] Revert "[8.3.0] Move Bash runfiles libraries out of Bazel (#26304)" (#26372)

  #26381 merged Jun 26, 2025

• [8.4.0] Remove the "overwrote runfiles" warning (#26374)

  #26382 merged Jun 26, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix //src:bazel-dev crash on startup

  #26391 merged Jun 26, 2025

• [8.3.1] Fix hang with force fetching + repo contents cache

  #26412 merged Jun 26, 2025

17 Pull requests opened by 8 people

• Improvements to documentation of `runfiles` and related surfaces

  #26406 opened Jun 26, 2025

• Comprehensive output suppression to tackle unactionable spew

  #26415 opened Jun 27, 2025

• Flip `--incompatible_filegroup_runfiles_for_data`

  #26417 opened Jun 27, 2025

• upgrade rules_java; drop patch

  #26422 opened Jun 27, 2025

• Markdown syntax support for CLI docs

  #26432 opened Jun 28, 2025

• WIP: Mount runfiles

  #26433 opened Jun 29, 2025

• Use busybox workaround to run linux-sandbox on Ubuntu 24.04+

  #26434 opened Jun 29, 2025

• Add more details for `--bes_upload_mode`

  #26435 opened Jun 30, 2025

• Set working directory in interactive `--sandbox_debug` command

  #26448 opened Jul 1, 2025

• Fixed data race in `test-setup.sh`

  #26453 opened Jul 1, 2025

• TMP: Mount working directory recursively in linux-sandbox-pid1

  #26454 opened Jul 1, 2025

• Avoid `--guard_against_concurrent_changes` false positives

  #26455 opened Jul 2, 2025

• Add `mnemonic` parameter to `ctx.actions.write`

  #26456 opened Jul 2, 2025

• Don't cache spawn input maps

  #26458 opened Jul 2, 2025

• [8.4.0] Allow running `--sandbox_debug` command multiple times

  #26459 opened Jul 2, 2025

• [8.4.0] Update to use coverage_output_generator-v2.9

  #26461 opened Jul 2, 2025

• [8.4.0] Overlay the registry `MODULE.bazel` file on the module repo

  #26462 opened Jul 2, 2025

30 Issues closed by 12 people

• Allow starlark rules to expand directories of srcs

  #21031 closed Jul 3, 2025

• Code coverage in header files is omitted when linked via cc_library for aliasing (e.g. empty srcs) in cc_test

  #26176 closed Jul 2, 2025

• Minor docs issue in /tutorials/ccp-toolchain-config

  #26316 closed Jul 2, 2025

• Modules obtained from registries should fall back to copying MODULE.bazel from the registry

  #26217 closed Jul 1, 2025

• [8.4.0] Extend `BazelFlagInfo` with additional metadata

  #26440 closed Jul 1, 2025

• [8.4.0] Add helper libraries in Java tools to project view

  #26378 closed Jul 1, 2025

• Add $(location_dirname) template for resolving the directory of a label

  #23516 closed Jul 1, 2025

• [Mirror] java_tools 14.0

  #26423 closed Jul 1, 2025

• [8.4.0] Add `--incompatible_compact_repo_mapping_manifest`

  #26240 closed Jun 30, 2025

• Add fields to `FlagInfo` in `bazel_flags.proto`

  #25006 closed Jun 30, 2025

• data files aren't copied / symlinked from the execroot to the sandbox

  #26255 closed Jun 30, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix fast path in repo contents cache

  #26402 closed Jun 30, 2025

• Release 8.3.1 - June 2025

  #26371 closed Jun 30, 2025

• bazel coverage with --remote_download_minimal for java_test

  #20292 closed Jun 30, 2025

• Bazel 5.0.0: Local jdk11: no matching toolchains found for types @bazel_tools//tools/jdk:runtime_toolchain_type

  #15035 closed Jun 30, 2025

• macOS-only runtime dyld error with dynamically-linked binary indirectly depending on linkstatic=True library

  #11552 closed Jun 28, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix fast path in repo contents cache

  #26403 closed Jun 27, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix `bazel mod tidy` handling of Unicode filenames

  #26377 closed Jun 27, 2025

• Cannot pass envvar to app launched by bazel run without invalidating repo and triggering rebuild

  #26229 closed Jun 27, 2025

• [8.4.0] Sync hangs while fetching repositories

  #26411 closed Jun 27, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix `//src:bazel-dev` crash on startup

  #26390 closed Jun 27, 2025

• Status of Bazel 9.0.0-pre.20250616.2

  #26386 closed Jun 27, 2025

• [bazel.build] Problem with /rules/lib/builtins/actions

  #20960 closed Jun 27, 2025

• Add use_param_file c++ feature as a replacement for controlling param files

  #20890 closed Jun 27, 2025

• cc_common.get_memory_inefficient_command_line returns invalid linker flags

  #20849 closed Jun 27, 2025

• [8.3.1] Sync hangs while fetching repositories

  #26397 closed Jun 26, 2025

• Sync hangs while fetching repositories

  #26389 closed Jun 26, 2025

• bazzel

  #26410 closed Jun 26, 2025

• Important race condition when using remote cache without remote build

  #3360 closed Jun 26, 2025

• Better merging or a warning when dropping RHS branch coverage data

  #26350 closed Jun 26, 2025

23 Issues opened by 12 people

• bazel crashed due to an internal error: InvalidDottedVersionException

  #26464 opened Jul 3, 2025

• [bazel.build] Problem with /reference/be/shell

  #26463 opened Jul 2, 2025

• [8.4.0] Avoid `--guard_against_concurrent_changes` false positives

  #26460 opened Jul 2, 2025

• [8.4.0] Add `mnemonic` parameter to `ctx.actions.write`

  #26457 opened Jul 2, 2025

• [8.4.0] Set working directory in interactive `--sandbox_debug` command

  #26452 opened Jul 1, 2025

• Starting with Bazel 8.3.0, `archive_override` removes all files from the archive root

  #26450 opened Jul 1, 2025

• default_system_javabase must resolve symlink

  #26449 opened Jul 1, 2025

• [8.4.0] Overlay the registry `MODULE.bazel` file on the module repo

  #26447 opened Jul 1, 2025

• [8.4.0] Forward `--host_jvmopt` to the exec configuration

  #26443 opened Jul 1, 2025

• [Need to refine] Bazel Bzlmod does not lookup all `--registry` if there's a missing `source.json`

  #26442 opened Jun 30, 2025

• [8.4.0] Use busybox workaround to run linux-sandbox on Ubuntu 24.04+

  #26439 opened Jun 30, 2025

• [8.4.0] Allow running `--sandbox_debug` command multiple times

  #26438 opened Jun 30, 2025

• Status of Bazel 9.0.0-pre.20250620.1

  #26429 opened Jun 27, 2025

• Raw URLs, HTML tags, anchor, links, Markdown backticks, etc in the docs

  #26424 opened Jun 27, 2025

• bazel vendor bazel-external symlink is absolute

  #26421 opened Jun 27, 2025

• [8.4.0] Add `--incompatible_filegroup_runfiles_for_data`

  #26419 opened Jun 27, 2025

• Changing --worker_extra_flag does not invalidate cache

  #26418 opened Jun 27, 2025

• [bazel.build] Problem with /start/cpp

  #26416 opened Jun 27, 2025

• [8.4.0] Update to use coverage_output_generator-v2.9

  #26408 opened Jun 26, 2025

• bazel 8.3.0 HTTP_PROXY maybe broken

  #26404 opened Jun 26, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix stale action key with `expand_directories=False` and manual expansion

  #26400 opened Jun 26, 2025

• [8.4.0] Fix stale action key with `expand_directories=False` and manual expansion

  #26399 opened Jun 26, 2025

• Use TEST_WARNINGS_OUTPUT_FILE to output warnings to console

  #26396 opened Jun 26, 2025

57 Unresolved conversations

Sometimes conversations happen on old items that aren’t yet closed. Here is a list of all the Issues and Pull Requests with unresolved conversations.

• [4/5] support C++20 Modules, support one phase compilation

  #22553 commented on Jul 3, 2025 • 24 new comments

• Restore path mapping support with `layering_check`

  #26287 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 3 new comments

• Filter spawn strategies by execution platform

  #24265 commented on Jun 30, 2025 • 3 new comments

• checkSandboxBaseTopOnlyContainsPersistentDirs crash

  #23880 commented on Jun 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add "runfile_path" to File

  #14307 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• C++ coverage collection is way too slow

  #26226 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• The coverage collection action is confusing

  #26227 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• `cc_binary` incorrectly emits `-fuse-ld=/path/to/ld.lld` instead of `-fuse-ld=lld`

  #26214 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Runfiles are not forwarded from `cc_library` to `cc_shared_library`

  #26201 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Improve "action.prepare" performance

  #19266 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Warnings from actions are printed at INFO level

  #22973 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Option to not download action/test stdout/stderr

  #19782 commented on Jul 3, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Make CC_CODE_COVERAGE_SCRIPT failures fail tests

  #15420 commented on Jun 26, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add `arguments` parameter to `RunEnvironmentInfo`

  #16430 commented on Jun 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Provide `--experimental_instrumentation_filter_fragment` cli option

  #23623 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add a benchmark for `count` and update a comment

  #23764 commented on Jun 26, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add `--strict_repo_env` option

  #24404 commented on Jun 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• WIP: Merkle tree cache

  #25650 commented on Jun 29, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add `--incompatible_eagerly_resolve_select_keys`

  #26216 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add `$(dirname ...)` location function

  #26236 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Force a UTF-8 locale when `en_US.ISO-8859-1` is not available

  #26279 commented on Jun 29, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add ability to unset variables with `--{action,host_action,repo,run,test}_env`

  #26300 commented on Jun 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Make coverage collection more resilient to test failure

  #26324 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Make strip_include_prefix apply to textual_hdrs

  #26327 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Enable `--experimental_generate_llvm_lcov` by default

  #26329 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add baseline coverage support to Java compilation action

  #26341 commented on Jun 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Fix: malformed brda records caused bad branching coverage

  #26342 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Starlarkify and split coverage features

  #26355 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [8.4.0] Enable cc_static_library and retire the related experimental flag

  #26394 commented on Jun 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Expose TransitiveTestsProvider to Starlark

  #14993 commented on Jun 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add Documentation to Rules Emitted by `bazel info build-language`

  #15817 commented on Jun 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Allow cc_toolchain to be defined across multiple repositories

  #7746 commented on Jun 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Bazel CI flaky error test_exclusive_test_and_no_cache_test_results

  #21994 commented on Jun 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Bazel CI flaky error test_xml_is_present_when_timingout_split_xml

  #21995 commented on Jun 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• supports_dynamic_linker_feature is overloaded and prevents depending on dynamic libraries more than it should

  #25521 commented on Jun 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Allow custom stub template for java_binary

  #3451 commented on Jun 29, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Memory usage of CoverageOutputGenerator is unreasonable

  #26383 commented on Jun 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Difficulties in using Linux-sandbox on Ubuntu 24

  #24081 commented on Jun 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• `strip_include_prefix` doesn't apply to `textual_hdrs`

  #12424 commented on Jun 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [8.4.0] Make strip_include_prefix apply to textual_hdrs

  #26351 commented on Jun 30, 2025 • 0 new comments

• log download failures when allow_fail is set to true

  #26336 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• `--incompatible_filegroup_runfiles_for_data`

  #26330 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add another RE implementation?

  #26315 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• In-project `--output_user_root` triggers the repo contents cache error, even though the target directory is excluded with `.bazelignore`

  #26384 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Statistics or information for repository_cache hits

  #26334 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• `--incompatible_compact_repo_mapping_manifest`

  #26262 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• incompatible_disable_starlark_host_transitions

  #17032 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• incompatible_config_setting_private_default_visibility

  #12933 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add additional modules to module_ctx

  #22070 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• incompatible_repo_env_ignores_action_env

  #26222 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Provide means for opting out of having "_virtual_includes" mentioned in C/C++ binaries

  #11874 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Expand template outputs being reported as `source file`

  #15850 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• load() arbitary file

  #10009 commented on Jul 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Support `runtime_deps` in `java_plugin` rule

  #16777 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• false-positive `absolute path inclusion(s) found` when ` --experimental_sibling_repository_layout` is enabled with a custom cc toolchain

  #26361 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Option to make all ctx.actions.run_shell actions in this run to have a hermetic PATH

  #26326 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments

• C++ host compile actions can conflict when --experimental_platform_in_output_dir is enabled

  #26228 commented on Jul 2, 2025 • 0 new comments