v0.44.0

IMPORTANT CHANGES

Tests now call panic() when they timeout

This means there is a running goroutine (which will fail goleak detection)

[Goroutine 26 in state chan receive, with github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/go/tools/bzltestutil.RegisterTimeoutHandler.func1 on top of the

This also means there may be some different behavior when calling SIGTERM directly from within a test.

For more information see: #3749

Bzlmod support for nogo

This can be added in your MODULE.bazel file:

go_sdk = use_extension("@rules_go//go:extensions.bzl", "go_sdk")
go_sdk.download(
    name = "go_sdk",
    ...
)
go_sdk.nogo(
    nogo = "//:default_nogo",
)

For more information see #3782

WORKSPACE code

load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")

http_archive(
    name = "io_bazel_rules_go",
    sha256 = "c8035e8ae248b56040a65ad3f0b7434712e2037e5dfdcebfe97576e620422709",
    urls = [
        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/releases/download/v0.44.0/rules_go-v0.44.0.zip",
        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/releases/download/v0.44.0/rules_go-v0.44.0.zip",
    ],
)

load("@io_bazel_rules_go//go:deps.bzl", "go_register_toolchains", "go_rules_dependencies")

go_rules_dependencies()

go_register_toolchains(version = "1.21.5")

What's Changed

• Do not test on centos7 by @fmeum in #3757
• update documentation for 0.43.0 release by @tyler-french in #3758
• Add toolchain param to affected actions by @kotlaja in #3760
• Update GO_TOOLCHAIN string to Label and add toolchain param to one more action by @kotlaja in #3762
• Do not choose prereleases as highest versions by @mering in #3764
• Remove unmaintained validators by @mering in #3768
• Use tools.go trick to make go.mod work with go mod tidy by @fmeum in #3775
• feat(packagesdriver): add _test suffix to pkgPath by @JamyDev in #3777
• Typo --test_runner_fail_fast by @Clement-Jean in #3773
• Panic when a test times out by @fmeum in #3749
• Fix integration tests with Bazel@HEAD by @fmeum in #3781
• Automatically register SDKs for common execution platforms by @fmeum in #3634
• fix aux_files relative paths for gomock source mocks (fix #3752) by @ikavalio in #3753
• Update to modern protoc plugins by @mering in #3761
• Add integration tests for protoc-gen-go-grpc by @ryanpbrewster in #3787
• Add Bzlmod support for nogo by @fmeum in #3782
• fix(gpd): don't panic on invalid root by @JamyDev in #3779
• Pass env to gentestmain so it will correctly filter by @patrickmscott in #3785
• prepare release 0.44.0 by @tyler-french in #3788

New Contributors

• @Clement-Jean made their first contribution in #3773
• @ikavalio made their first contribution in #3753
• @ryanpbrewster made their first contribution in #3787

Full Changelog: v0.43.0...v0.44.0