Tracking: Stable Release

[sgammon]

In the queue:

• Fully hermetic component downloads #30
• using the bazel cc toolchain #27
• Testing on Windows #28
• Testing on Bazel 4, Bazel 5, Bazel 6 #29
• fix: bcr tarball endpoint #76
• Bazel Settings Propagation #78
• Ability to build a shared library #85
• Support for Java 21 release #144
• Deprecation of gu #145
• Native Image options parity #108
• Project structure docs, contribution doc, etc #92
• Add dedicated native_image_shared_library rule #91
• Add native_image_test rule #90
• Better control of -march #89
• Intelligent selection of native-image GC #88
• Support for custom GVM SDK #83
• Fix code scanning alert - Pinned-Dependencies #50
• GraalVM engine toolchains #51
• Support for earlier Bazel versions #52
• Support for custom GraalVM components #53
• Hermetic Oracle GDS downloads #54
• feat: add rules_graalvm module bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry#836