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incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info #11359

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googlewalt opened this issue May 11, 2020 · 1 comment
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incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info #11359

googlewalt opened this issue May 11, 2020 · 1 comment
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incompatible-change Incompatible/breaking change P2 We'll consider working on this in future. (Assignee optional) platform: apple team-Rules-CPP Issues for C++ rules

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This flag is part of the efforts to migrate ObjcProvider compile info to CcCompilationContext. It removes the Starlark APIs related to the definition and use of compile info in ObjcProvider. See #10674 for more details on the overall efforts.

6/3/2020 This flag also removes the merge_zip related Starlark APIs. These usages should be migrated to apple_resource_group provided by rules_apple. We piggyback this functionality to avoid adding yet another incompatible flag.

Specifically, the flag does the following:

  • The compiler related-APIs (and merged_zip) to ObjcProvider will be removed: define, framework_search_path_only, header, include, include_system, iquote, merge_zip, and compilation_context.

  • apple_common.new_objc_provider() will stop taking compile-related (and merge_zip) arguments: define, framework_search_paths, include, include_system, iquote, and merge_zip. It will continue to take header, which is used to populate its direct fields (use by e.g. tulsi), but header will not populate any compile-related fields.

  • apple_common.new_objc_provider() will stop taking direct_dep_providers. Use strict_include instead. Note this feature should only be used internally and should not affect bazel users.

Expected timeline:

  • Available and default false in 3.4.
  • Enabled and removed in next major release.
@googlewalt googlewalt added P2 We'll consider working on this in future. (Assignee optional) z-team-Apple Deprecated. Send to rules_apple, or label team-Rules-CPP + platform:apple incompatible-change Incompatible/breaking change labels May 11, 2020
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bazel-io pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jun 15, 2020
@googlewalt @copybara-github
Add --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info flag
38aee31 
When set to true, the flag turns off the compile info/merge_zip
Starlark APIs in ObjcProvider.

RELNOTES: --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info turns off
the compile info/mege_zip Starlark APIs in ObjcProvider.  See #11359.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 316568134
bazel-io pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jul 13, 2020
@meisterT
Release 3.4.0 (2020-07-13)
93262a5 
Baseline: 7404d17

Cherry picks:

   + a4334be:
     fixup! Gracefully handle the lack of subreaper support in Linux.

Incompatible changes:

  - This removes the short-lived --process_wrapper_extra_flags
    flag, which was introduced primarily to roll out a bug fix.
    Unfortunately,
    this made us inadvertently expose all of the process-wrapper's
    command line
    interface to the public, which should not have happened.  Given
    the corner
    case of the utility of this flag, the lack of documentation for
    it, and the
    fact that it only appeared in a single release, we are treating
    this as a
    bug instead of a backwards compatibility breakage.

New features:

  - bazel info: Allow to specify multiple keys.
  - Support code coverage with GCC 9.

Important changes:

  - Allow InstrumentedFilesInfo fields to be read from Starlark.
  - The --starlark_cpu_profile=<file> flag writes a profile in
    pprof format containing a statistical summary of CPU usage
    by all Starlark execution during the bazel command. Use it
    to identify slow Starlark functions in loading and analysis.
  - The --debug_depset_flag has been removed as it is in effect
    always on at no cost.
  - Rule authors should use the
    incompatible_use_toolchain_transition rule attribute to migrate
    to using
    the toolchain transition. jcater to udpate notes further.
  - `apple_binary` rules now accept the `stamp` attribute with the
    same
    semantics that it has in `cc_binary` rules.
  - --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info turns off
    the compile info/mege_zip Starlark APIs in ObjcProvider.  See
    #11359.
  - The --debug_depset_flag has been removed as it is in effect
    always on at no cost.
  - Fix behavior of ctx.actions.write so content is written without
    an incorrect encoding to UTF-8.
    See #10174 for details.
  - Collect more performance metrics for worker execution.
  - Add flag --incompatible_force_strict_header_check_from_starlark
  - Configure coverage and runfiles for sh_library.
  - Adds --incompatible_blacklisted_protos_requires_proto_info to
    indicate whether proto_lang_toolchain.blacklisted_protos requires
    ProtoInfo.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Andrzej Guszak, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Romano, Carlos Eduardo Seo, Claudio Bley, dannysullivan, David Ostrovsky, George Gensure, Graham Jenson, Grzegorz Lukasik, Gunnar Wagenknecht, Henk van der Laan, Jin, John Millikin, Marin Baron, Nikhil Marathe, Robin Nabel, Ryan Beasley, Samuel Giddins, Sergey Balabanov, utsav-dbx, Vo Van Nghia, Yannic Bonenberger.
meteorcloudy pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jul 13, 2020
@meisterT
Release 3.4.0 (2020-07-13)
837664b 
Baseline: 7404d17

Cherry picks:

   + a4334be:
     fixup! Gracefully handle the lack of subreaper support in Linux.

Incompatible changes:

  - This removes the short-lived --process_wrapper_extra_flags
    flag, which was introduced primarily to roll out a bug fix.
    Unfortunately,
    this made us inadvertently expose all of the process-wrapper's
    command line
    interface to the public, which should not have happened.  Given
    the corner
    case of the utility of this flag, the lack of documentation for
    it, and the
    fact that it only appeared in a single release, we are treating
    this as a
    bug instead of a backwards compatibility breakage.

New features:

  - bazel info: Allow to specify multiple keys.
  - Support code coverage with GCC 9.

Important changes:

  - Allow InstrumentedFilesInfo fields to be read from Starlark.
  - The --starlark_cpu_profile=<file> flag writes a profile in
    pprof format containing a statistical summary of CPU usage
    by all Starlark execution during the bazel command. Use it
    to identify slow Starlark functions in loading and analysis.
  - The --debug_depset_flag has been removed as it is in effect
    always on at no cost.
  - Rule authors should use the
    incompatible_use_toolchain_transition rule attribute to migrate
    to using
    the toolchain transition. jcater to udpate notes further.
  - `apple_binary` rules now accept the `stamp` attribute with the
    same
    semantics that it has in `cc_binary` rules.
  - --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info turns off
    the compile info/mege_zip Starlark APIs in ObjcProvider.  See
    #11359.
  - The --debug_depset_flag has been removed as it is in effect
    always on at no cost.
  - Fix behavior of ctx.actions.write so content is written without
    an incorrect encoding to UTF-8.
    See #10174 for details.
  - Collect more performance metrics for worker execution.
  - Add flag --incompatible_force_strict_header_check_from_starlark
  - Configure coverage and runfiles for sh_library.
  - Adds --incompatible_blacklisted_protos_requires_proto_info to
    indicate whether proto_lang_toolchain.blacklisted_protos requires
    ProtoInfo.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Andrzej Guszak, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Romano, Carlos Eduardo Seo, Claudio Bley, dannysullivan, David Ostrovsky, George Gensure, Graham Jenson, Grzegorz Lukasik, Gunnar Wagenknecht, Henk van der Laan, Jin, John Millikin, Marin Baron, Nikhil Marathe, Robin Nabel, Ryan Beasley, Samuel Giddins, Sergey Balabanov, utsav-dbx, Vo Van Nghia, Yannic Bonenberger.
bazel-io pushed a commit that referenced this issue Oct 21, 2020
@googlewalt @copybara-github
Flip --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info to true
c46f9ee 
RELNOTES: The flag `--incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info` is enabled by default.  See #11359.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 338339157
@susinmotion susinmotion added platform: apple team-Rules-CPP Issues for C++ rules and removed z-team-Apple Deprecated. Send to rules_apple, or label team-Rules-CPP + platform:apple labels Nov 18, 2020
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philwo commented Nov 18, 2020

Closing, because this flag has been flipped.

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bazel-io pushed a commit that referenced this issue Dec 7, 2020
@googlewalt @copybara-github
Delete --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info
952c0d7 
RELNOTES: Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.  See #11359.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 346156485
bazel-io pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 21, 2021
@meisterT
Release 4.0.0 (2021-01-21)
506f319 
Baseline: 37a429a

Cherry picks:

   + a689d67:
     Use getRunfilesPath for run_under executable path generation.
     getRootRelativePath doesn't return a valid runfiles path for
     external source files anymore after the recent external source
     root change. Also, it won't work for external labels either once
     the --nolegacy_external_runfiles becomes default. This fixes
     issue #12545.
   + d90ec67:
     Fix NPE when coveragerunner is not set on the toolchain.
   + 8555789:
     Fix the classic query package-loading cutoff optimization with
     external workspaces.
   + d113d74:
     Update turbine
   + 1489f0f:
     Support Scala3 .tasty files
   + 0d2d95c:
     Update to java_tools javac11 release 10.5 (#12647)
   + a9419f3:
     Fix common prefix for instrumentation filter
   + 84fadcf:
     Fix builds for filegroup targets with incompatible dependencies
   + e43825d:
     Revert "Remove
     --incompatible_blacklisted_protos_requires_proto_info"
   + 082d58d:
     Transform roots along with paths during output deletion.
   + e8835c1:
     AttributeContainer.Large now handles more than 127 attributes.
   + e1e8734:
     Add an env attribute to all test and binary rule classes
   + a87d7ed:
     Take no action to prefetch empty artifacts.
   + 3e969ff:
     Fix a couple of bugs with Incompatible Target Skipping
   + e667082:
     Pass --host_action_env to host options hostActionEnvironment
     attribute
   + 07400c0:
     Add --{no,}autodetect_server_javabase.
   + c833660:
     Only treat "env" and "env_inherit" attrs specially for native
     rules
   + 6a60b30:
     Fix coverage support when using default_java_toolchain. (#12801)
   + 4158a6f:
     Revert JacocoCoverage target to remote_java_tools_java_import
     and add a new target for remore_java_tools_filegroup. (#12813)
   + f6d30cf:
     Add windows_msvc back to conditions in bazel_tools.

New features:

  - Starlark-defined flags can now be shorthanded using --flag_alias.

Important changes:

  - Add --starlark:file option. This adds a capability to the
    (cquery)[https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/cquery.html]
    feature in `--output=starlark` mode so that the expression to
    format output may
    be specified in a file.
  - Error messages emitted when an action fails are reworked to be
    more informative about the failing action. Some tooling may have
    to be updated as a result.
  - Querying with output=location now allows the relative_locations
    flag to properly display relative locations instead of the full
    path. Fixes #3497.
  - --flag_alias can now be used without
    --experimental_enable_flag_alias
  - Remove no-op `--deep_execroot` flag
  - The BEP uses `AbortReason.OUT_OF_MEMORY` for abort events when
    the build tool is crashing due to OOM.
  - Added flag `incompatible_display_source_file_location` for `blaze
    query location=output` to print the location of line 1 of the
    actual source files instead of the source file targets. Provides
    a solution to #8900.
  - The Starlark json module is now available.
    Use json.encode(x) to encode a Starlark value as JSON.
    struct.to_json(x) is deprecated and will be disabled by
    the --incompatible_struct_has_no_methods flag.
  - The flag `--incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration` is enabled
    by default.  See #10854.
  - The flag `--incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info` is
    enabled by default.  See #11359.
  - Add `relative_ast_path` feature for darwin builds to relativize
    swiftmodule paths for debugging
  - Use proto.encode_text(x) to encode a Starlark value as textproto.
    struct.to_proto() is deprecated and will be disabled by
    the --incompatible_struct_has_no_methods flag.
    Both functions now reject list/dict fields that contain list/dict
    elements.
  - Add --starlark:file option. This adds a capability to the
    (cquery)[https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/cquery.html]
    feature in `--output=starlark` mode so that the expression to
    format output may be specified in a file.
    See [Configured Query Starlark
    Output](//docs.google.com/document/d/1kL6Tdmp6uLBa9lq_DbUSjIC87glO
    zKIyPoBeF95Rs4c/edit)
  - Flipped --incompatble_proto_output_v2 for aquery.
  - The --incompatible_load_java_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - The --incompatible_load_proto_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Flipped --incompatible_force_strict_header_check_from_starlark
  - --incompatible_string_replace_count is flipped and removed
    (#11244)
  - Bazel skips incompatible targets based on target platform
    and `target_compatible_with` contents. See
    https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/platforms.html for more
    details.
  - Bazel returns exit code 36 (rather than 1) if it fails to start a
    subprocess in a local sandbox due to environmental issues, for
    example, if the argument list is too long.
  - //tools/build_defs/pkg:pkg_rpm is no longer built in to Bazel.
    See #11218 for
    instructions
    on how to migrate to the replacement.
  - Javac now supports multiplex workers.
  - The `--default_ios_provisioning_profile` flag has been removed
    (it was a no-op).
  - Add support for using AndroidX dependencies in
    data-binding-enabled targets.
  - Fix data-binding generation for android_local_test.
  - Enable debug_prefix_map_pwd_is_dot feature by default on macOS,
    this passes `-fdebug-prefix-map=$PWD=.` for every compile to
    remove absolute paths from debug info.
  - --incompatible_run_shell_command_string is enabled by default
    (#5903)
  - py_binary now tolerates package paths that contain hyphens ('-').
    Note that such paths might not be importable from within Python
    code.
  - C++ Starlark API requires linker_inputs wrapping library_to_link.
    #10860
  - Toolchain rule is extended with target_settings attribute.
  - --incompatible_restrict_string_escapes=true is now the default.
    Unnecessary backslashes such as "\." in string literals are now
    an error, instead of being silently treated as "\\.".
    To fix the error while preserving behavior, double the backlash.
    However, the error is often a sign that the original code was
    wrong.
  - Propagate instrumented files for transitive sources of
    `android_library` and `android_binary`
  - --local_resources and --incompatible_remove_local_resources have
    been removed. If you've been setting --local resources or
    --incompatible_remove_local_resources=false, you must migrate to
    using --local_ram_resources and --local_cpu_resources instead.
  - Update rules_cc to commit b1c40e1de81913a3c40e5948f78719c28152486d
  - --incompatible_avoid_conflict_dlls=true is now the default.
  - Dynamic execution now uses the new scheduler by default.
  - Dynamic execution now uses the new scheduler by default.
  - The new dynamic scheduler is now the default.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Liddell, Akira Baruah, Alexander Grund, Alex Eagle, Andrew Z Allen, Austin Schuh, Benjamin Peterson, Benson Muite, Brentley Jones, Cristian Hancila, Dan Halperin, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Dmitry Ivankov, Dmitry Ivankov, erenon, Eric Cousineau, Greg Estren, Gregor Jasny, Grzegorz Lukasik, Grzegorz Lukasik, hollste, Joe Lencioni, johnjbarton, Jonathan Perry, Jonathon Belotti, Keith Smiley, Kevin Gessner, Matt Davis, Matt Mackay, Menny Even Danan, Neeraj Gupta, Philipp Schrader, Ricardo Delfin, Ryan Beasley, Samuel Giddins, Simon Bjorklen, Simon Stewart, Stiopa Koltsov, Thi Doan, ThomasCJY, Timothy Klim, Tom de Goede, vectoralpha, V Vn Ngha, William A Rowe Jr, Xavier Bonaventura, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic.
hrfuller pushed a commit to hrfuller/bazel that referenced this issue Jan 26, 2021
@meisterT
Release 4.0.0 (2021-01-21)
6b33bdb 
Baseline: 37a429a

Cherry picks:

   + a689d67:
     Use getRunfilesPath for run_under executable path generation.
     getRootRelativePath doesn't return a valid runfiles path for
     external source files anymore after the recent external source
     root change. Also, it won't work for external labels either once
     the --nolegacy_external_runfiles becomes default. This fixes
     issue bazelbuild#12545.
   + d90ec67:
     Fix NPE when coveragerunner is not set on the toolchain.
   + 8555789:
     Fix the classic query package-loading cutoff optimization with
     external workspaces.
   + d113d74:
     Update turbine
   + 1489f0f:
     Support Scala3 .tasty files
   + 0d2d95c:
     Update to java_tools javac11 release 10.5 (bazelbuild#12647)
   + a9419f3:
     Fix common prefix for instrumentation filter
   + 84fadcf:
     Fix builds for filegroup targets with incompatible dependencies
   + e43825d:
     Revert "Remove
     --incompatible_blacklisted_protos_requires_proto_info"
   + 082d58d:
     Transform roots along with paths during output deletion.
   + e8835c1:
     AttributeContainer.Large now handles more than 127 attributes.
   + e1e8734:
     Add an env attribute to all test and binary rule classes
   + a87d7ed:
     Take no action to prefetch empty artifacts.
   + 3e969ff:
     Fix a couple of bugs with Incompatible Target Skipping
   + e667082:
     Pass --host_action_env to host options hostActionEnvironment
     attribute
   + 07400c0:
     Add --{no,}autodetect_server_javabase.
   + c833660:
     Only treat "env" and "env_inherit" attrs specially for native
     rules
   + 6a60b30:
     Fix coverage support when using default_java_toolchain. (bazelbuild#12801)
   + 4158a6f:
     Revert JacocoCoverage target to remote_java_tools_java_import
     and add a new target for remore_java_tools_filegroup. (bazelbuild#12813)
   + f6d30cf:
     Add windows_msvc back to conditions in bazel_tools.

New features:

  - Starlark-defined flags can now be shorthanded using --flag_alias.

Important changes:

  - Add --starlark:file option. This adds a capability to the
    (cquery)[https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/cquery.html]
    feature in `--output=starlark` mode so that the expression to
    format output may
    be specified in a file.
  - Error messages emitted when an action fails are reworked to be
    more informative about the failing action. Some tooling may have
    to be updated as a result.
  - Querying with output=location now allows the relative_locations
    flag to properly display relative locations instead of the full
    path. Fixes bazelbuild#3497.
  - --flag_alias can now be used without
    --experimental_enable_flag_alias
  - Remove no-op `--deep_execroot` flag
  - The BEP uses `AbortReason.OUT_OF_MEMORY` for abort events when
    the build tool is crashing due to OOM.
  - Added flag `incompatible_display_source_file_location` for `blaze
    query location=output` to print the location of line 1 of the
    actual source files instead of the source file targets. Provides
    a solution to bazelbuild#8900.
  - The Starlark json module is now available.
    Use json.encode(x) to encode a Starlark value as JSON.
    struct.to_json(x) is deprecated and will be disabled by
    the --incompatible_struct_has_no_methods flag.
  - The flag `--incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration` is enabled
    by default.  See bazelbuild#10854.
  - The flag `--incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info` is
    enabled by default.  See bazelbuild#11359.
  - Add `relative_ast_path` feature for darwin builds to relativize
    swiftmodule paths for debugging
  - Use proto.encode_text(x) to encode a Starlark value as textproto.
    struct.to_proto() is deprecated and will be disabled by
    the --incompatible_struct_has_no_methods flag.
    Both functions now reject list/dict fields that contain list/dict
    elements.
  - Add --starlark:file option. This adds a capability to the
    (cquery)[https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/cquery.html]
    feature in `--output=starlark` mode so that the expression to
    format output may be specified in a file.
    See [Configured Query Starlark
    Output](//docs.google.com/document/d/1kL6Tdmp6uLBa9lq_DbUSjIC87glO
    zKIyPoBeF95Rs4c/edit)
  - Flipped --incompatble_proto_output_v2 for aquery.
  - The --incompatible_load_java_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - The --incompatible_load_proto_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Flipped --incompatible_force_strict_header_check_from_starlark
  - --incompatible_string_replace_count is flipped and removed
    (bazelbuild#11244)
  - Bazel skips incompatible targets based on target platform
    and `target_compatible_with` contents. See
    https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/platforms.html for more
    details.
  - Bazel returns exit code 36 (rather than 1) if it fails to start a
    subprocess in a local sandbox due to environmental issues, for
    example, if the argument list is too long.
  - //tools/build_defs/pkg:pkg_rpm is no longer built in to Bazel.
    See bazelbuild#11218 for
    instructions
    on how to migrate to the replacement.
  - Javac now supports multiplex workers.
  - The `--default_ios_provisioning_profile` flag has been removed
    (it was a no-op).
  - Add support for using AndroidX dependencies in
    data-binding-enabled targets.
  - Fix data-binding generation for android_local_test.
  - Enable debug_prefix_map_pwd_is_dot feature by default on macOS,
    this passes `-fdebug-prefix-map=$PWD=.` for every compile to
    remove absolute paths from debug info.
  - --incompatible_run_shell_command_string is enabled by default
    (bazelbuild#5903)
  - py_binary now tolerates package paths that contain hyphens ('-').
    Note that such paths might not be importable from within Python
    code.
  - C++ Starlark API requires linker_inputs wrapping library_to_link.
    bazelbuild#10860
  - Toolchain rule is extended with target_settings attribute.
  - --incompatible_restrict_string_escapes=true is now the default.
    Unnecessary backslashes such as "\." in string literals are now
    an error, instead of being silently treated as "\\.".
    To fix the error while preserving behavior, double the backlash.
    However, the error is often a sign that the original code was
    wrong.
  - Propagate instrumented files for transitive sources of
    `android_library` and `android_binary`
  - --local_resources and --incompatible_remove_local_resources have
    been removed. If you've been setting --local resources or
    --incompatible_remove_local_resources=false, you must migrate to
    using --local_ram_resources and --local_cpu_resources instead.
  - Update rules_cc to commit b1c40e1de81913a3c40e5948f78719c28152486d
  - --incompatible_avoid_conflict_dlls=true is now the default.
  - Dynamic execution now uses the new scheduler by default.
  - Dynamic execution now uses the new scheduler by default.
  - The new dynamic scheduler is now the default.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Liddell, Akira Baruah, Alexander Grund, Alex Eagle, Andrew Z Allen, Austin Schuh, Benjamin Peterson, Benson Muite, Brentley Jones, Cristian Hancila, Dan Halperin, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Dmitry Ivankov, Dmitry Ivankov, erenon, Eric Cousineau, Greg Estren, Gregor Jasny, Grzegorz Lukasik, Grzegorz Lukasik, hollste, Joe Lencioni, johnjbarton, Jonathan Perry, Jonathon Belotti, Keith Smiley, Kevin Gessner, Matt Davis, Matt Mackay, Menny Even Danan, Neeraj Gupta, Philipp Schrader, Ricardo Delfin, Ryan Beasley, Samuel Giddins, Simon Bjorklen, Simon Stewart, Stiopa Koltsov, Thi Doan, ThomasCJY, Timothy Klim, Tom de Goede, vectoralpha, V Vn Ngha, William A Rowe Jr, Xavier Bonaventura, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic.
bazel-io pushed a commit that referenced this issue May 31, 2021
@fweikert
Release 5.0.0-pre.20210510.2 (2021-05-31)
e7d3480 
Baseline: 8a42645

Cherry picks:

   + e3c78c4:
     Ensure that test status artifacts are reported as top-level
     artifacts.
   + 1f52e9a:
     Support rolling releases in Bazel release scripts.

Incompatible changes:

  - Removing java_common.javac_jar Starlark call.
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change
    because there is some code that relies on the precise type
    returned, including brittle workarounds for this bug specifically
    and insufficiently flexible workarounds for other issues with the
    intersection of select and native.existing_rule.
  - flipped incompatible_use_toolchain_resolution_for_java_rules, see
    #7849
  - Query output=xml/proto/location for source files will now show
    the location of line 1 of the source file (as the new default)
    instead of its location in the BUILD file.
  - Specifying a target pattern underneath a directory specified by
    .bazelignore will now emit a warning, not an error.
  - Query `--order_output=auto` will now sort lexicographically.
    However, when `somepath` is used as a top level function (e.g.
    `query 'somepath(a, b)'`), it will continue to output in
    dependency order. If you do not want the lexicographical output
    ordering, specify another `--order_output` value (`no`, `deps` or
    `full`) based on what ordering you require.
  - In the build event stream,
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_loaded is no longer populated.
    Its value was always mostly meaningless.
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_configured and
    BuildMetrics.ActionSummary.actions_created now include configured
    aspect data.
  - //visibility:legacy_public has been removed.
  - Flip and remove incompatible_dont_collect_so_artifacts
    (#13043).
  - Remove flag --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink: it is
    always true.
  - The Starlark method generate_dsym in objc fragment has
    been deleted.  Please use the equivalent apple_generate_dsym in
    cpp
    fragment instead.

Important changes:

  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - none
    PAIR=cmita
  - The --incompatible_load_python_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Filter all (instead of just C++) source files for coverage output
    according to --instrumentation_filter and
    --instrument_test_targets.
  - The `--incompatible_disable_native_apple_binary_rule` flag has
    been added which disables the native `apple_binary` rule. Users
    who need to use `apple_binary` directly (if they cannot use one
    of the more specific Apple rules) should load it from
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple.
  - The Android rules' --use_singlejar_apkbuilder is now a no-op.
    SingleJar will always be used to build APKs.
  - dict.setdefault(key, ...) now fails if dict is frozen, even if it
    already contains key. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.
     See #11359.
  - Starlark now permits def statements to be nested (closures).
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change,
    though the fallout is expected to be small.
  - Starlark now supports lambda (anonymous function) expressions.
  - The "test" and "coverage" commands no longer return 3 when a
    test action fails because of a system error. Instead, the exit
    code
    reflects the type of system error.
  - The undocumented ctx.expand feature no longer exists.
  - Make --legacy_dynamic_scheduler a no-op flag.
  - Multiplex persistent workers can now use the JSON protocol.
  - native.existing_rule now returns a mutable list, not a tuple, for
    a list-valued attributes. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Roll back change to have native.existing_rules use list instead
    of tuple.
  - BEP includes test suite expansions.
  - config_setting now honors `visibility` attribute (and defaults to
    `//visibility:public`)
  - Change the MultiArchSplitTransitionProvider to be based on
    platform type + CPU instead of fixed "ios_" + cpu.
  - enforce config_setting visibility. See
    #12932 for details.
  - add a flag to build v4 signature file
  - Added _direct_source_jars output group to Java related targets.
    END_PUBLIC
  - pkg_deb is no longer part of @bazel_tools//build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl.
    Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/main/pkg instead
  - Allowing the lipo operations to be conditional in the
    linkMultiArchBinary API for Apple binaries. Single architecture
    slices are now returned through AppleBinaryOutput and the
    Starlark API.
  - Release restriction for "-" in the package name for Python
    sources. Now `py_binary` and `py_test` targets can have main
    source file with "-" in the path.
  - Users consuming BEP may assume that a `named_set_of_files` event
    will
    appear before any event referencing that `named_set` by ID. This
    allows consumers
    to process the files for such events (eg. `TargetCompleted`)
    immediately.
  - BEP includes all files from successful actions in requested
    output groups.
    Previously, an output group's files were excluded if any file in
    the output group
    was not produced due to a failing action. Users can expect BEP
    output to be larger
    for failed builds.
  - In BEP, TargetComplete.output_group has a new field `incomplete`
    indicating that the file_sets field is missing one or more
    declared artifacts
    whose generating actions failed.
  - The flag `--toolchain_resolution_debug` now takes a regex
    argument, which is used to check which toolchain types should
    have debug info printed. You may use `.*` as an argument to keep
    the current behavior of debugging every toolchain type.
  - Add runfiles.merge_all() for merging a sequence of runfiles
    objects.
  - runfiles.merge() and merge_all() now respect
    --nested_set_depth_limit.
    If you hit the depth limit because you were calling merge() in a
    loop, use
    merge_all() on a sequence of runfiles objects instead.
  - Bazel will no longer create a bazel-out symlink if
    --symlink_prefix is specified: the directory pointed to via the
    bazel-out symlink is accessible via ${symlink_prefix}-out. If
    this causes problems for you, set
    --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink=false in your builds
    and file an issue.
  - Updates worker protocol with cancellation fields, and adds
    experimental_worker_cancellation flag to control cancellation.
  - Simplify build failure output by always using `NNN arguments`.
  - trim_test_configuration now defaults to on
  - Mark genrule.srcs as a source attribute for coverage.
  - When using --allow_analysis_failures (for example, via
    bazel-skylib's
    analysistest with `expect_failure = True`), analysis-time
    failures in aspect
    implementation functions will now be propagated and saved in
    AnalysisFailureInfo, just like analysis-time failures in rules.
  - cquery --noimplicit_deps now correctly filters out resolved
    cc_toolchains
  - Sign apks deterministically.
  - Make gcov optional in cc_toolchain tools.
  - If --experimental_prefer_mutual_xcode is passed, Bazel will
    choose the local default (instead of the newest mutually
    available version) if it's available both locally and remotely.
  - Remove java_lite_proto_library.strict_deps attribute.
  - Generate proguard configurations deterministically.
  - Adds a new flag, `--incompatible_enable_cc_test_feature` which
    switches from the use of build variables to the feature of the
    same name.
  - Dropped fragile xz support from built in pkg_tar. Users requiring
    xz
    compression should switch to bazlebuild/rules_pkg.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Liddell, Alex Eagle, Anthony Pratti, Austin Schuh, Benedek Thaler, Benjamin Lee, Benjamin Peterson, bromano, Christopher Sauer, Cristian Hancila, Daniel McCarney, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Danny Wolf, Dave Nicponski, David Cummings, David, David Ostrovsky, Denys Kurylenko, Dmitry Ivankov, dorranh, Ed Schouten, Elliotte Rusty Harold, erenon, Eric Cousineau, Ethan Steinberg, Felix Ehrenpfort, Finn Ball, Fredrik Medley, Garrett Holmstrom, Gautam Korlam, George Gensure, goodspark, Greg Estren, Grzegorz Lukasik, John Laxson, Jonathan Schear, Justus Tumacder, Keith Smiley, Lauri Peltonen, Liu Liu, Lszl Csomor, m, Marc Zych, Mark Karpov, Matt Mackay, Max Liu, Menny Even Danan, menny, Michael Chinen, Nathaniel Brough, Nick Korostelev, Nikolay Shelukhin, odisseus, Oleh Stolyar, Olek Wojnar, Olle Lundberg, Philipp Schrader, Qais Patankar, Ryan Beasley, samhowes, Samuel Giddins, Sebastian Olsson, Steve Siano, steve-the-bayesian, Stiopa Koltsov, susinmotion, tatiana, Thi Doan, ThomasCJY, Timothy Klim, Tobi, Torgil Svensson, Trustin Lee, Ulf Adams, Vaidas Pilkauskas, Vertexwahn, wisechengyi, Xavier Bonaventura, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic, Yury Evtikhov, Yuval Kaplan, Yuval, [zqzzq].
bazel-io pushed a commit that referenced this issue Aug 19, 2021
@fweikert
Release 5.0.0-pre.20210810.4 (2021-08-19)
b3feb61 
Baseline: ead4495

Cherry picks:

   + 99a85e7:
     Automated rollback of commit
     92f7b58.
   + 1652361:
     Fix a race condition in scheduling code in
     `FileSystemValueCheckerInferringAncestors`.
   + ed25118:
     Add incompatible flag to guard top-level aspects dependencies

Incompatible changes:

  - Removing java_common.javac_jar Starlark call.
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change
    because there is some code that relies on the precise type
    returned, including brittle workarounds for this bug specifically
    and insufficiently flexible workarounds for other issues with the
    intersection of select and native.existing_rule.
  - flipped incompatible_use_toolchain_resolution_for_java_rules, see
    #7849
  - Query output=xml/proto/location for source files will now show
    the location of line 1 of the source file (as the new default)
    instead of its location in the BUILD file.
  - Specifying a target pattern underneath a directory specified by
    .bazelignore will now emit a warning, not an error.
  - Query `--order_output=auto` will now sort lexicographically.
    However, when `somepath` is used as a top level function (e.g.
    `query 'somepath(a, b)'`), it will continue to output in
    dependency order. If you do not want the lexicographical output
    ordering, specify another `--order_output` value (`no`, `deps` or
    `full`) based on what ordering you require.
  - In the build event stream,
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_loaded is no longer populated.
    Its value was always mostly meaningless.
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_configured and
    BuildMetrics.ActionSummary.actions_created now include configured
    aspect data.
  - //visibility:legacy_public has been removed.
  - Flip and remove incompatible_dont_collect_so_artifacts
    (#13043).
  - Remove flag --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink: it is
    always true.
  - The Starlark method generate_dsym in objc fragment has
    been deleted.  Please use the equivalent apple_generate_dsym in
    cpp
    fragment instead.
  - Native libraries in data attribute are not collected. See
    #13550 for details
  - Enforce the `--profile` path to be absolute.
  - Enforce the --memory_profile path to be absolute.
  - JavaToolchainInfo.jvm_opt returns Depset instead of a list.
  - --apple_sdk has been deleted.  It is a no-op.

Important changes:

  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - none
    PAIR=cmita
  - The --incompatible_load_python_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Filter all (instead of just C++) source files for coverage output
    according to --instrumentation_filter and
    --instrument_test_targets.
  - The `--incompatible_disable_native_apple_binary_rule` flag has
    been added which disables the native `apple_binary` rule. Users
    who need to use `apple_binary` directly (if they cannot use one
    of the more specific Apple rules) should load it from
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple.
  - The Android rules' --use_singlejar_apkbuilder is now a no-op.
    SingleJar will always be used to build APKs.
  - dict.setdefault(key, ...) now fails if dict is frozen, even if it
    already contains key. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.
     See #11359.
  - Starlark now permits def statements to be nested (closures).
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change,
    though the fallout is expected to be small.
  - Starlark now supports lambda (anonymous function) expressions.
  - The "test" and "coverage" commands no longer return 3 when a
    test action fails because of a system error. Instead, the exit
    code
    reflects the type of system error.
  - The undocumented ctx.expand feature no longer exists.
  - Make --legacy_dynamic_scheduler a no-op flag.
  - Multiplex persistent workers can now use the JSON protocol.
  - native.existing_rule now returns a mutable list, not a tuple, for
    a list-valued attributes. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Roll back change to have native.existing_rules use list instead
    of tuple.
  - BEP includes test suite expansions.
  - config_setting now honors `visibility` attribute (and defaults to
    `//visibility:public`)
  - Change the MultiArchSplitTransitionProvider to be based on
    platform type + CPU instead of fixed "ios_" + cpu.
  - enforce config_setting visibility. See
    #12932 for details.
  - add a flag to build v4 signature file
  - Added _direct_source_jars output group to Java related targets.
    END_PUBLIC
  - pkg_deb is no longer part of @bazel_tools//build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl.
    Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/main/pkg instead
  - Allowing the lipo operations to be conditional in the
    linkMultiArchBinary API for Apple binaries. Single architecture
    slices are now returned through AppleBinaryOutput and the
    Starlark API.
  - Release restriction for "-" in the package name for Python
    sources. Now `py_binary` and `py_test` targets can have main
    source file with "-" in the path.
  - Users consuming BEP may assume that a `named_set_of_files` event
    will
    appear before any event referencing that `named_set` by ID. This
    allows consumers
    to process the files for such events (eg. `TargetCompleted`)
    immediately.
  - BEP includes all files from successful actions in requested
    output groups.
    Previously, an output group's files were excluded if any file in
    the output group
    was not produced due to a failing action. Users can expect BEP
    output to be larger
    for failed builds.
  - In BEP, TargetComplete.output_group has a new field `incomplete`
    indicating that the file_sets field is missing one or more
    declared artifacts
    whose generating actions failed.
  - The flag `--toolchain_resolution_debug` now takes a regex
    argument, which is used to check which toolchain types should
    have debug info printed. You may use `.*` as an argument to keep
    the current behavior of debugging every toolchain type.
  - Add runfiles.merge_all() for merging a sequence of runfiles
    objects.
  - runfiles.merge() and merge_all() now respect
    --nested_set_depth_limit.
    If you hit the depth limit because you were calling merge() in a
    loop, use
    merge_all() on a sequence of runfiles objects instead.
  - Bazel will no longer create a bazel-out symlink if
    --symlink_prefix is specified: the directory pointed to via the
    bazel-out symlink is accessible via ${symlink_prefix}-out. If
    this causes problems for you, set
    --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink=false in your builds
    and file an issue.
  - Updates worker protocol with cancellation fields, and adds
    experimental_worker_cancellation flag to control cancellation.
  - Simplify build failure output by always using `NNN arguments`.
  - trim_test_configuration now defaults to on
  - Mark genrule.srcs as a source attribute for coverage.
  - When using --allow_analysis_failures (for example, via
    bazel-skylib's
    analysistest with `expect_failure = True`), analysis-time
    failures in aspect
    implementation functions will now be propagated and saved in
    AnalysisFailureInfo, just like analysis-time failures in rules.
  - cquery --noimplicit_deps now correctly filters out resolved
    cc_toolchains
  - Sign apks deterministically.
  - Make gcov optional in cc_toolchain tools.
  - If --experimental_prefer_mutual_xcode is passed, Bazel will
    choose the local default (instead of the newest mutually
    available version) if it's available both locally and remotely.
  - Remove java_lite_proto_library.strict_deps attribute.
  - Generate proguard configurations deterministically.
  - Adds a new flag, `--incompatible_enable_cc_test_feature` which
    switches from the use of build variables to the feature of the
    same name.
  - Dropped fragile xz support from built in pkg_tar. Users requiring
    xz
    compression should switch to bazlebuild/rules_pkg.
  - If all strategies of one branch (the local or remote execution
    branch) of the `dynamic` strategy fail to even accept (via the
    response they give from `canExec`) the action, `dynamic` will now
    try to see if the other branch can accept it. (Trying to run it
    and it failing will still cause a failure if it was the first
    result, this is about strategies claiming they can't even try the
    action)
  - Add `disable_annotation_processing` option to
    `java_common.compile`, which disables any annotation processors
    passed to `plugins` or in `exported_plugins` of `deps`
  - Remove obsolete --incompatible_prohibit_aapt1
  - The minimum Android build tools version for the Android rules is
    now 30.0.0
  - Adds --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories flag to reuse
    already-created non-worker sandboxes with cleanup.
  - --experimental_force_gc_after_build is deprecated and will be
    removed soon. Use --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build instead
  - Forward coverage-instrumented files from non-tool dependencies by
    default.
  - The used_heap_size_post_build field in BEP is populated when the
    --memory_profile flag is set
  - --run_validations defaults to true.
  - Consider label_keyed_string_dict attributes when gathering
    instrumented files for coverage.
  - Remove flag
    --experimental_forward_instrumented_files_info_by_default, now
    that this behavior is the default.
  - When using MemoryProfiler with multiple GCs via the
    --memory_profile_stable_heap_parameters flag, we do a more
    precise calculation of heap used at the end of the build. This
    will generally result in lower values.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is deprecated. Use
    --memory_profile=/dev/null instead.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Liddell, Alex Eagle, Andrew Katson, Anthony Pratti, Austin Schuh, Benedek Thaler, Benjamin Lee, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Peterson, bromano, Cameron Mulhern, Christopher Peterson Sauer, Christopher Sauer, Cristian Hancila, Dan Bamikiya, Daniel McCarney, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Danny Wolf, Dave MacLachlan, Dave Nicponski, David Cummings, David, David Ostrovsky, Delwin9999, Denys Kurylenko, Dmitry Ivankov, dorranh, Ed Schouten, Eitan Adler, Elliotte Rusty Harold, erenon, Eric Cousineau, Ethan Steinberg, FaBrand, Felix Ehrenpfort, Finn Ball, Fredrik Medley, Garrett Holmstrom, Gautam Korlam, George Gensure, goodspark, Greg Estren, Grzegorz Lukasik, Jesse Chan, Joe Lencioni, Johannes Abt, John Laxson, Jonathan Schear, Justus Tumacder, Keith Smiley, Kevin Hogeland, Lauri Peltonen, Liu Liu, Lszl Csomor, m, Marc Zych, Mark Karpov, Masoud Koleini, Matt Mackay, Max Liu, Menny Even Danan, menny, Michael Chinen, Nathaniel Brough, Nick Korostelev, Niek Peeters, Nikolay Shelukhin, odisseus, Oleh Stolyar, Olek Wojnar, Olle Lundberg, Philipp Schrader, Pras Velagapudi, Qais Patankar, Rai, Ryan Beasley, samhowes, Samuel Giddins, Sebastian Olsson, Steve Siano, steve-the-bayesian, Stiopa Koltsov, susinmotion, tatiana, Thi Doan, ThomasCJY, Timothy Klim, Tobi, Torgil Svensson, Trustin Lee, Ulf Adams, Uri Baghin, Vaidas Pilkauskas, Vertexwahn, wisechengyi, Xavier Bonaventura, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic, Yury Evtikhov, Yuval Kaplan, Yuval, [zqzzq].
bazel-io pushed a commit that referenced this issue Sep 3, 2021
@fweikert
Release 5.0.0-pre.20210826.1 (2021-09-03)
d13f58b 
Baseline: f53c389

Incompatible changes:

  - Removing java_common.javac_jar Starlark call.
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change
    because there is some code that relies on the precise type
    returned, including brittle workarounds for this bug specifically
    and insufficiently flexible workarounds for other issues with the
    intersection of select and native.existing_rule.
  - flipped incompatible_use_toolchain_resolution_for_java_rules, see
    #7849
  - Query output=xml/proto/location for source files will now show
    the location of line 1 of the source file (as the new default)
    instead of its location in the BUILD file.
  - Specifying a target pattern underneath a directory specified by
    .bazelignore will now emit a warning, not an error.
  - Query `--order_output=auto` will now sort lexicographically.
    However, when `somepath` is used as a top level function (e.g.
    `query 'somepath(a, b)'`), it will continue to output in
    dependency order. If you do not want the lexicographical output
    ordering, specify another `--order_output` value (`no`, `deps` or
    `full`) based on what ordering you require.
  - In the build event stream,
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_loaded is no longer populated.
    Its value was always mostly meaningless.
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_configured and
    BuildMetrics.ActionSummary.actions_created now include configured
    aspect data.
  - //visibility:legacy_public has been removed.
  - Flip and remove incompatible_dont_collect_so_artifacts
    (#13043).
  - Remove flag --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink: it is
    always true.
  - The Starlark method generate_dsym in objc fragment has
    been deleted.  Please use the equivalent apple_generate_dsym in
    cpp
    fragment instead.
  - Native libraries in data attribute are not collected. See
    #13550 for details
  - Enforce the `--profile` path to be absolute.
  - Enforce the --memory_profile path to be absolute.
  - JavaToolchainInfo.jvm_opt returns Depset instead of a list.
  - --apple_sdk has been deleted.  It is a no-op.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is now a no-op and will
    be deleted in a future release. Use --memory_profile=/dev/null
    instead.
  - Flipped --incompatible_disallow_resource_jars (see
    #13221).

New features:

  - Args.add_all and Args.add_joined can now accept closures in
    map_each if explicitly enabled via allow_closure.
  - Add `--bes_header` flag to pass extra headers to the BES server.

Important changes:

  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - none
    PAIR=cmita
  - The --incompatible_load_python_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Filter all (instead of just C++) source files for coverage output
    according to --instrumentation_filter and
    --instrument_test_targets.
  - The `--incompatible_disable_native_apple_binary_rule` flag has
    been added which disables the native `apple_binary` rule. Users
    who need to use `apple_binary` directly (if they cannot use one
    of the more specific Apple rules) should load it from
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple.
  - The Android rules' --use_singlejar_apkbuilder is now a no-op.
    SingleJar will always be used to build APKs.
  - dict.setdefault(key, ...) now fails if dict is frozen, even if it
    already contains key. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.
     See #11359.
  - Starlark now permits def statements to be nested (closures).
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change,
    though the fallout is expected to be small.
  - Starlark now supports lambda (anonymous function) expressions.
  - The "test" and "coverage" commands no longer return 3 when a
    test action fails because of a system error. Instead, the exit
    code
    reflects the type of system error.
  - The undocumented ctx.expand feature no longer exists.
  - Make --legacy_dynamic_scheduler a no-op flag.
  - Multiplex persistent workers can now use the JSON protocol.
  - native.existing_rule now returns a mutable list, not a tuple, for
    a list-valued attributes. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Roll back change to have native.existing_rules use list instead
    of tuple.
  - BEP includes test suite expansions.
  - config_setting now honors `visibility` attribute (and defaults to
    `//visibility:public`)
  - Change the MultiArchSplitTransitionProvider to be based on
    platform type + CPU instead of fixed "ios_" + cpu.
  - enforce config_setting visibility. See
    #12932 for details.
  - add a flag to build v4 signature file
  - Added _direct_source_jars output group to Java related targets.
    END_PUBLIC
  - pkg_deb is no longer part of @bazel_tools//build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl.
    Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/main/pkg instead
  - Allowing the lipo operations to be conditional in the
    linkMultiArchBinary API for Apple binaries. Single architecture
    slices are now returned through AppleBinaryOutput and the
    Starlark API.
  - Release restriction for "-" in the package name for Python
    sources. Now `py_binary` and `py_test` targets can have main
    source file with "-" in the path.
  - Users consuming BEP may assume that a `named_set_of_files` event
    will
    appear before any event referencing that `named_set` by ID. This
    allows consumers
    to process the files for such events (eg. `TargetCompleted`)
    immediately.
  - BEP includes all files from successful actions in requested
    output groups.
    Previously, an output group's files were excluded if any file in
    the output group
    was not produced due to a failing action. Users can expect BEP
    output to be larger
    for failed builds.
  - In BEP, TargetComplete.output_group has a new field `incomplete`
    indicating that the file_sets field is missing one or more
    declared artifacts
    whose generating actions failed.
  - The flag `--toolchain_resolution_debug` now takes a regex
    argument, which is used to check which toolchain types should
    have debug info printed. You may use `.*` as an argument to keep
    the current behavior of debugging every toolchain type.
  - Add runfiles.merge_all() for merging a sequence of runfiles
    objects.
  - runfiles.merge() and merge_all() now respect
    --nested_set_depth_limit.
    If you hit the depth limit because you were calling merge() in a
    loop, use
    merge_all() on a sequence of runfiles objects instead.
  - Bazel will no longer create a bazel-out symlink if
    --symlink_prefix is specified: the directory pointed to via the
    bazel-out symlink is accessible via ${symlink_prefix}-out. If
    this causes problems for you, set
    --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink=false in your builds
    and file an issue.
  - Updates worker protocol with cancellation fields, and adds
    experimental_worker_cancellation flag to control cancellation.
  - Simplify build failure output by always using `NNN arguments`.
  - trim_test_configuration now defaults to on
  - Mark genrule.srcs as a source attribute for coverage.
  - When using --allow_analysis_failures (for example, via
    bazel-skylib's
    analysistest with `expect_failure = True`), analysis-time
    failures in aspect
    implementation functions will now be propagated and saved in
    AnalysisFailureInfo, just like analysis-time failures in rules.
  - cquery --noimplicit_deps now correctly filters out resolved
    cc_toolchains
  - Sign apks deterministically.
  - Make gcov optional in cc_toolchain tools.
  - If --experimental_prefer_mutual_xcode is passed, Bazel will
    choose the local default (instead of the newest mutually
    available version) if it's available both locally and remotely.
  - Remove java_lite_proto_library.strict_deps attribute.
  - Generate proguard configurations deterministically.
  - Adds a new flag, `--incompatible_enable_cc_test_feature` which
    switches from the use of build variables to the feature of the
    same name.
  - Dropped fragile xz support from built in pkg_tar. Users requiring
    xz
    compression should switch to bazlebuild/rules_pkg.
  - If all strategies of one branch (the local or remote execution
    branch) of the `dynamic` strategy fail to even accept (via the
    response they give from `canExec`) the action, `dynamic` will now
    try to see if the other branch can accept it. (Trying to run it
    and it failing will still cause a failure if it was the first
    result, this is about strategies claiming they can't even try the
    action)
  - Add `disable_annotation_processing` option to
    `java_common.compile`, which disables any annotation processors
    passed to `plugins` or in `exported_plugins` of `deps`
  - Remove obsolete --incompatible_prohibit_aapt1
  - The minimum Android build tools version for the Android rules is
    now 30.0.0
  - Adds --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories flag to reuse
    already-created non-worker sandboxes with cleanup.
  - --experimental_force_gc_after_build is deprecated and will be
    removed soon. Use --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build instead
  - Forward coverage-instrumented files from non-tool dependencies by
    default.
  - The used_heap_size_post_build field in BEP is populated when the
    --memory_profile flag is set
  - --run_validations defaults to true.
  - Consider label_keyed_string_dict attributes when gathering
    instrumented files for coverage.
  - Remove flag
    --experimental_forward_instrumented_files_info_by_default, now
    that this behavior is the default.
  - When using MemoryProfiler with multiple GCs via the
    --memory_profile_stable_heap_parameters flag, we do a more
    precise calculation of heap used at the end of the build. This
    will generally result in lower values.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is deprecated. Use
    --memory_profile=/dev/null instead.
  - Disable --all_incompatible_changes flag.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Liddell, Alex Eagle, Andrew Katson, Anthony Pratti, Austin Schuh, Benedek Thaler, Benjamin Lee, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Peterson, Ben Lee, Brentley Jones, bromano, Cameron Mulhern, Christopher Peterson Sauer, Christopher Sauer, Cristian Hancila, Dan Bamikiya, Daniel McCarney, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Danny Wolf, Dave MacLachlan, Dave Nicponski, David Cummings, David, David Ostrovsky, Delwin9999, Denys Kurylenko, Dmitry Ivankov, dorranh, Ed Schouten, Eitan Adler, Elliotte Rusty Harold, erenon, Eric Cousineau, Ethan Steinberg, Fabian Meumertzheim, FaBrand, Felix Ehrenpfort, Finn Ball, Fredrik Medley, Garrett Holmstrom, Gautam Korlam, George Gensure, goodspark, Greg Estren, Grzegorz Lukasik, Grzegorz Lukasik, Ikko Ashimine, Jesse Chan, Joe Lencioni, Johannes Abt, John Laxson, Jonathan Schear, Justus Tumacder, Keith Smiley, Kevin Hogeland, Lauri Peltonen, Liu Liu, Lszl Csomor, m, Marc Zych, Mark Karpov, Masoud Koleini, Matt Mackay, Max Liu, Menny Even Danan, menny, Michael Chinen, Nathaniel Brough, Nick Korostelev, Niek Peeters, Nikolay Shelukhin, odisseus, Oleh Stolyar, Olek Wojnar, Olle Lundberg, Omar Zuniga, Philipp Schrader, Pras Velagapudi, Qais Patankar, Rai, Ryan Beasley, samhowes, Samuel Giddins, Sebastian Olsson, Steve Siano, steve-the-bayesian, Stiopa Koltsov, susinmotion, tatiana, Thi Doan, ThomasCJY, Timothy Klim, Tobi, Torgil Svensson, Trustin Lee, Ulf Adams, Uri Baghin, Vaidas Pilkauskas, Vertexwahn, wisechengyi, Xavier Bonaventura, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic, Yury Evtikhov, Yuval Kaplan, Yuval, [zqzzq].
bazel-io pushed a commit that referenced this issue Dec 7, 2021
@fweikert
Release 6.0.0-pre.20211117.1 (2021-12-07)
139081f 
Baseline: e5b3536

Incompatible changes:

  - Removing java_common.javac_jar Starlark call.
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change
    because there is some code that relies on the precise type
    returned, including brittle workarounds for this bug specifically
    and insufficiently flexible workarounds for other issues with the
    intersection of select and native.existing_rule.
  - flipped incompatible_use_toolchain_resolution_for_java_rules, see
    #7849
  - Query output=xml/proto/location for source files will now show
    the location of line 1 of the source file (as the new default)
    instead of its location in the BUILD file.
  - Specifying a target pattern underneath a directory specified by
    .bazelignore will now emit a warning, not an error.
  - Query `--order_output=auto` will now sort lexicographically.
    However, when `somepath` is used as a top level function (e.g.
    `query 'somepath(a, b)'`), it will continue to output in
    dependency order. If you do not want the lexicographical output
    ordering, specify another `--order_output` value (`no`, `deps` or
    `full`) based on what ordering you require.
  - In the build event stream,
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_loaded is no longer populated.
    Its value was always mostly meaningless.
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_configured and
    BuildMetrics.ActionSummary.actions_created now include configured
    aspect data.
  - //visibility:legacy_public has been removed.
  - Flip and remove incompatible_dont_collect_so_artifacts
    (#13043).
  - Remove flag --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink: it is
    always true.
  - The Starlark method generate_dsym in objc fragment has
    been deleted.  Please use the equivalent apple_generate_dsym in
    cpp
    fragment instead.
  - Native libraries in data attribute are not collected. See
    #13550 for details
  - Enforce the `--profile` path to be absolute.
  - Enforce the --memory_profile path to be absolute.
  - JavaToolchainInfo.jvm_opt returns Depset instead of a list.
  - --apple_sdk has been deleted.  It is a no-op.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is now a no-op and will
    be deleted in a future release. Use --memory_profile=/dev/null
    instead.
  - Flipped --incompatible_disallow_resource_jars (see
    #13221).
  - Remove --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build
  - JSON trace profile: rename counter names.
  - Removed --action_graph from the dump command.
  - Remove `--{experimental_,}json_trace_compression` option.
  - Remove `--experimental_profile_cpu_usage`.
  - flipped --incompatible_java_common_parameters (see #12373)

New features:

  - Args.add_all and Args.add_joined can now accept closures in
    map_each if explicitly enabled via allow_closure.
  - Add `--bes_header` flag to pass extra headers to the BES server.

Important changes:

  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - none
    PAIR=cmita
  - The --incompatible_load_python_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Filter all (instead of just C++) source files for coverage output
    according to --instrumentation_filter and
    --instrument_test_targets.
  - The `--incompatible_disable_native_apple_binary_rule` flag has
    been added which disables the native `apple_binary` rule. Users
    who need to use `apple_binary` directly (if they cannot use one
    of the more specific Apple rules) should load it from
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple.
  - The Android rules' --use_singlejar_apkbuilder is now a no-op.
    SingleJar will always be used to build APKs.
  - dict.setdefault(key, ...) now fails if dict is frozen, even if it
    already contains key. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.
     See #11359.
  - Starlark now permits def statements to be nested (closures).
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change,
    though the fallout is expected to be small.
  - Starlark now supports lambda (anonymous function) expressions.
  - The "test" and "coverage" commands no longer return 3 when a
    test action fails because of a system error. Instead, the exit
    code
    reflects the type of system error.
  - The undocumented ctx.expand feature no longer exists.
  - Make --legacy_dynamic_scheduler a no-op flag.
  - Multiplex persistent workers can now use the JSON protocol.
  - native.existing_rule now returns a mutable list, not a tuple, for
    a list-valued attributes. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Roll back change to have native.existing_rules use list instead
    of tuple.
  - BEP includes test suite expansions.
  - config_setting now honors `visibility` attribute (and defaults to
    `//visibility:public`)
  - Change the MultiArchSplitTransitionProvider to be based on
    platform type + CPU instead of fixed "ios_" + cpu.
  - enforce config_setting visibility. See
    #12932 for details.
  - add a flag to build v4 signature file
  - Added _direct_source_jars output group to Java related targets.
    END_PUBLIC
  - pkg_deb is no longer part of @bazel_tools//build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl.
    Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/main/pkg instead
  - Allowing the lipo operations to be conditional in the
    linkMultiArchBinary API for Apple binaries. Single architecture
    slices are now returned through AppleBinaryOutput and the
    Starlark API.
  - Release restriction for "-" in the package name for Python
    sources. Now `py_binary` and `py_test` targets can have main
    source file with "-" in the path.
  - Users consuming BEP may assume that a `named_set_of_files` event
    will
    appear before any event referencing that `named_set` by ID. This
    allows consumers
    to process the files for such events (eg. `TargetCompleted`)
    immediately.
  - BEP includes all files from successful actions in requested
    output groups.
    Previously, an output group's files were excluded if any file in
    the output group
    was not produced due to a failing action. Users can expect BEP
    output to be larger
    for failed builds.
  - In BEP, TargetComplete.output_group has a new field `incomplete`
    indicating that the file_sets field is missing one or more
    declared artifacts
    whose generating actions failed.
  - The flag `--toolchain_resolution_debug` now takes a regex
    argument, which is used to check which toolchain types should
    have debug info printed. You may use `.*` as an argument to keep
    the current behavior of debugging every toolchain type.
  - Add runfiles.merge_all() for merging a sequence of runfiles
    objects.
  - runfiles.merge() and merge_all() now respect
    --nested_set_depth_limit.
    If you hit the depth limit because you were calling merge() in a
    loop, use
    merge_all() on a sequence of runfiles objects instead.
  - Bazel will no longer create a bazel-out symlink if
    --symlink_prefix is specified: the directory pointed to via the
    bazel-out symlink is accessible via ${symlink_prefix}-out. If
    this causes problems for you, set
    --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink=false in your builds
    and file an issue.
  - Updates worker protocol with cancellation fields, and adds
    experimental_worker_cancellation flag to control cancellation.
  - Simplify build failure output by always using `NNN arguments`.
  - trim_test_configuration now defaults to on
  - Mark genrule.srcs as a source attribute for coverage.
  - When using --allow_analysis_failures (for example, via
    bazel-skylib's
    analysistest with `expect_failure = True`), analysis-time
    failures in aspect
    implementation functions will now be propagated and saved in
    AnalysisFailureInfo, just like analysis-time failures in rules.
  - cquery --noimplicit_deps now correctly filters out resolved
    cc_toolchains
  - Sign apks deterministically.
  - Make gcov optional in cc_toolchain tools.
  - If --experimental_prefer_mutual_xcode is passed, Bazel will
    choose the local default (instead of the newest mutually
    available version) if it's available both locally and remotely.
  - Remove java_lite_proto_library.strict_deps attribute.
  - Generate proguard configurations deterministically.
  - Adds a new flag, `--incompatible_enable_cc_test_feature` which
    switches from the use of build variables to the feature of the
    same name.
  - Dropped fragile xz support from built in pkg_tar. Users requiring
    xz
    compression should switch to bazlebuild/rules_pkg.
  - If all strategies of one branch (the local or remote execution
    branch) of the `dynamic` strategy fail to even accept (via the
    response they give from `canExec`) the action, `dynamic` will now
    try to see if the other branch can accept it. (Trying to run it
    and it failing will still cause a failure if it was the first
    result, this is about strategies claiming they can't even try the
    action)
  - Add `disable_annotation_processing` option to
    `java_common.compile`, which disables any annotation processors
    passed to `plugins` or in `exported_plugins` of `deps`
  - Remove obsolete --incompatible_prohibit_aapt1
  - The minimum Android build tools version for the Android rules is
    now 30.0.0
  - Adds --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories flag to reuse
    already-created non-worker sandboxes with cleanup.
  - --experimental_force_gc_after_build is deprecated and will be
    removed soon. Use --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build instead
  - Forward coverage-instrumented files from non-tool dependencies by
    default.
  - The used_heap_size_post_build field in BEP is populated when the
    --memory_profile flag is set
  - --run_validations defaults to true.
  - Consider label_keyed_string_dict attributes when gathering
    instrumented files for coverage.
  - Remove flag
    --experimental_forward_instrumented_files_info_by_default, now
    that this behavior is the default.
  - When using MemoryProfiler with multiple GCs via the
    --memory_profile_stable_heap_parameters flag, we do a more
    precise calculation of heap used at the end of the build. This
    will generally result in lower values.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is deprecated. Use
    --memory_profile=/dev/null instead.
  - Disable --all_incompatible_changes flag.
  - The --all_incompatible_changes flag is now a no-op
  - The `--toolchain_resolution_debug` flag now accepts regexes
    matching targets, as well as toolchain types, when choosing what
    debug messages to print.
  - Adds --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag to make the
    native.existing_rule and native.existing_rules functions more
    efficient by
    returning immutable, lightweight dict-like view objects instead
    of mutable
    dicts.
  - Add support to length-delimited protos as undeclared output
    annotations []
  - The deprecated "relative_to_caller_repository" parameter has been
    removed from the Label constructor.
  - The toolchain transition is now enabled for all toolchains.
  - incompatible_disable_depset_items is flipped
  - The --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag has been
    renamed to  --incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view
  - Bazel no longer supports Java 8. From this version on, the
    minimum required JDK is OpenJDK 11.
  - Deprecate --incompatible_applicable_licenses flag, in preparation
    for removal in Bazel 6.x.
  - Treat py_*.srcs_version="PY2" the same as "PY2ONLY".
  - The Build Event Protocol now contains file digests and sizes
    along with the file name and URI.
  - Refactor system suspend event handling.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Liddell, Alessandro Patti, Alex Eagle, Alex Eagle, Alex Eagle, Andrew Katson, Anthony Pratti, Artem V. Navrotskiy, Austin Schuh, Benedek Thaler, Benjamin Lee, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Peterson, Ben Lee, Brandon Jacklyn, Brentley Jones, bromano, Cameron Mulhern, Christopher Peterson Sauer, Christopher Sauer, Cristian Hancila, crydell-ericsson, Dan Bamikiya, Daniel McCarney, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Danny Wolf, Dave MacLachlan, Dave Nicponski, David Cummings, David, David Ostrovsky, Delwin9999, Denys Kurylenko, Dmitry Ivankov, dorranh, ecngtng, Ed Schouten, Eitan Adler, Elliotte Rusty Harold, erenon, Eric Cousineau, Ethan Steinberg, Fabian Meumertzheim, Fabian Meumertzheim, FaBrand, Felix Ehrenpfort, Finn Ball, frazze-jobb, Fredrik Medley, Garrett Holmstrom, Gautam Korlam, George Gensure, goodspark, Greg Estren, Grzegorz Lukasik, Grzegorz Lukasik, hvadehra, Ikko Ashimine, Jesse Chan, Joe Lencioni, Johannes Abt, John Laxson, Jonathan Schear, Justus Tumacder, Keith Smiley, kekxv, Kevin Hogeland, Lauri Peltonen, Liu Liu, Lszl Csomor, m, Marc Zych, Mark Karpov, Masoud Koleini, Mathieu Olivari, Matt Mackay, Mauricio Galindo, Max Liu, Menny Even Danan, menny, Michael Chinen, Nathaniel Brough, Nick Korostelev, Niek Peeters, Nikolay Shelukhin, odisseus, Oleh Stolyar, Olek Wojnar, Olle Lundberg, Omar Zuniga, Paul Gschwendtner, Peter Kasting, Philipp Schrader, Pras Velagapudi, Qais Patankar, Rabi Shanker Guha, Rahul Butani, Rai, ron-stripe, Ryan Beasley, samhowes, Samuel Giddins, Sebastian Olsson, Sergey Tyurin, Steve Siano, steve-the-bayesian, Stiopa Koltsov, susinmotion, tatiana, Tetsuo Kiso, Thaler Benedek, Thi Doan, Thi Don, Thomas Carmet, ThomasCJY, Timothe Peignier, Timothy Klim, Tobi, Torgil Svensson, Trustin Lee, Ulf Adams, Ulrik Falklof, Uri Baghin, Vaidas Pilkauskas, Vertexwahn, William Muir, wisechengyi, Wren Turkal, Xavier Bonaventura, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic, Yury Evtikhov, Yuval Kaplan, Yuval K, Yuval, [zqzzq].
Bencodes pushed a commit to Bencodes/bazel that referenced this issue Jan 10, 2022
@Bencodes
Release 6.0.0-pre.20211117.1 (2021-12-07)
a7a4fb4 
Baseline: e5b3536

Incompatible changes:

  - Removing java_common.javac_jar Starlark call.
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change
    because there is some code that relies on the precise type
    returned, including brittle workarounds for this bug specifically
    and insufficiently flexible workarounds for other issues with the
    intersection of select and native.existing_rule.
  - flipped incompatible_use_toolchain_resolution_for_java_rules, see
    bazelbuild#7849
  - Query output=xml/proto/location for source files will now show
    the location of line 1 of the source file (as the new default)
    instead of its location in the BUILD file.
  - Specifying a target pattern underneath a directory specified by
    .bazelignore will now emit a warning, not an error.
  - Query `--order_output=auto` will now sort lexicographically.
    However, when `somepath` is used as a top level function (e.g.
    `query 'somepath(a, b)'`), it will continue to output in
    dependency order. If you do not want the lexicographical output
    ordering, specify another `--order_output` value (`no`, `deps` or
    `full`) based on what ordering you require.
  - In the build event stream,
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_loaded is no longer populated.
    Its value was always mostly meaningless.
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_configured and
    BuildMetrics.ActionSummary.actions_created now include configured
    aspect data.
  - //visibility:legacy_public has been removed.
  - Flip and remove incompatible_dont_collect_so_artifacts
    (bazelbuild#13043).
  - Remove flag --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink: it is
    always true.
  - The Starlark method generate_dsym in objc fragment has
    been deleted.  Please use the equivalent apple_generate_dsym in
    cpp
    fragment instead.
  - Native libraries in data attribute are not collected. See
    bazelbuild#13550 for details
  - Enforce the `--profile` path to be absolute.
  - Enforce the --memory_profile path to be absolute.
  - JavaToolchainInfo.jvm_opt returns Depset instead of a list.
  - --apple_sdk has been deleted.  It is a no-op.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is now a no-op and will
    be deleted in a future release. Use --memory_profile=/dev/null
    instead.
  - Flipped --incompatible_disallow_resource_jars (see
    bazelbuild#13221).
  - Remove --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build
  - JSON trace profile: rename counter names.
  - Removed --action_graph from the dump command.
  - Remove `--{experimental_,}json_trace_compression` option.
  - Remove `--experimental_profile_cpu_usage`.
  - flipped --incompatible_java_common_parameters (see bazelbuild#12373)

New features:

  - Args.add_all and Args.add_joined can now accept closures in
    map_each if explicitly enabled via allow_closure.
  - Add `--bes_header` flag to pass extra headers to the BES server.

Important changes:

  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    bazelbuild#10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    bazelbuild#10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    bazelbuild#10854.
  - none
    PAIR=cmita
  - The --incompatible_load_python_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Filter all (instead of just C++) source files for coverage output
    according to --instrumentation_filter and
    --instrument_test_targets.
  - The `--incompatible_disable_native_apple_binary_rule` flag has
    been added which disables the native `apple_binary` rule. Users
    who need to use `apple_binary` directly (if they cannot use one
    of the more specific Apple rules) should load it from
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple.
  - The Android rules' --use_singlejar_apkbuilder is now a no-op.
    SingleJar will always be used to build APKs.
  - dict.setdefault(key, ...) now fails if dict is frozen, even if it
    already contains key. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.
     See bazelbuild#11359.
  - Starlark now permits def statements to be nested (closures).
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change,
    though the fallout is expected to be small.
  - Starlark now supports lambda (anonymous function) expressions.
  - The "test" and "coverage" commands no longer return 3 when a
    test action fails because of a system error. Instead, the exit
    code
    reflects the type of system error.
  - The undocumented ctx.expand feature no longer exists.
  - Make --legacy_dynamic_scheduler a no-op flag.
  - Multiplex persistent workers can now use the JSON protocol.
  - native.existing_rule now returns a mutable list, not a tuple, for
    a list-valued attributes. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Roll back change to have native.existing_rules use list instead
    of tuple.
  - BEP includes test suite expansions.
  - config_setting now honors `visibility` attribute (and defaults to
    `//visibility:public`)
  - Change the MultiArchSplitTransitionProvider to be based on
    platform type + CPU instead of fixed "ios_" + cpu.
  - enforce config_setting visibility. See
    bazelbuild#12932 for details.
  - add a flag to build v4 signature file
  - Added _direct_source_jars output group to Java related targets.
    END_PUBLIC
  - pkg_deb is no longer part of @bazel_tools//build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl.
    Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/main/pkg instead
  - Allowing the lipo operations to be conditional in the
    linkMultiArchBinary API for Apple binaries. Single architecture
    slices are now returned through AppleBinaryOutput and the
    Starlark API.
  - Release restriction for "-" in the package name for Python
    sources. Now `py_binary` and `py_test` targets can have main
    source file with "-" in the path.
  - Users consuming BEP may assume that a `named_set_of_files` event
    will
    appear before any event referencing that `named_set` by ID. This
    allows consumers
    to process the files for such events (eg. `TargetCompleted`)
    immediately.
  - BEP includes all files from successful actions in requested
    output groups.
    Previously, an output group's files were excluded if any file in
    the output group
    was not produced due to a failing action. Users can expect BEP
    output to be larger
    for failed builds.
  - In BEP, TargetComplete.output_group has a new field `incomplete`
    indicating that the file_sets field is missing one or more
    declared artifacts
    whose generating actions failed.
  - The flag `--toolchain_resolution_debug` now takes a regex
    argument, which is used to check which toolchain types should
    have debug info printed. You may use `.*` as an argument to keep
    the current behavior of debugging every toolchain type.
  - Add runfiles.merge_all() for merging a sequence of runfiles
    objects.
  - runfiles.merge() and merge_all() now respect
    --nested_set_depth_limit.
    If you hit the depth limit because you were calling merge() in a
    loop, use
    merge_all() on a sequence of runfiles objects instead.
  - Bazel will no longer create a bazel-out symlink if
    --symlink_prefix is specified: the directory pointed to via the
    bazel-out symlink is accessible via ${symlink_prefix}-out. If
    this causes problems for you, set
    --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink=false in your builds
    and file an issue.
  - Updates worker protocol with cancellation fields, and adds
    experimental_worker_cancellation flag to control cancellation.
  - Simplify build failure output by always using `NNN arguments`.
  - trim_test_configuration now defaults to on
  - Mark genrule.srcs as a source attribute for coverage.
  - When using --allow_analysis_failures (for example, via
    bazel-skylib's
    analysistest with `expect_failure = True`), analysis-time
    failures in aspect
    implementation functions will now be propagated and saved in
    AnalysisFailureInfo, just like analysis-time failures in rules.
  - cquery --noimplicit_deps now correctly filters out resolved
    cc_toolchains
  - Sign apks deterministically.
  - Make gcov optional in cc_toolchain tools.
  - If --experimental_prefer_mutual_xcode is passed, Bazel will
    choose the local default (instead of the newest mutually
    available version) if it's available both locally and remotely.
  - Remove java_lite_proto_library.strict_deps attribute.
  - Generate proguard configurations deterministically.
  - Adds a new flag, `--incompatible_enable_cc_test_feature` which
    switches from the use of build variables to the feature of the
    same name.
  - Dropped fragile xz support from built in pkg_tar. Users requiring
    xz
    compression should switch to bazlebuild/rules_pkg.
  - If all strategies of one branch (the local or remote execution
    branch) of the `dynamic` strategy fail to even accept (via the
    response they give from `canExec`) the action, `dynamic` will now
    try to see if the other branch can accept it. (Trying to run it
    and it failing will still cause a failure if it was the first
    result, this is about strategies claiming they can't even try the
    action)
  - Add `disable_annotation_processing` option to
    `java_common.compile`, which disables any annotation processors
    passed to `plugins` or in `exported_plugins` of `deps`
  - Remove obsolete --incompatible_prohibit_aapt1
  - The minimum Android build tools version for the Android rules is
    now 30.0.0
  - Adds --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories flag to reuse
    already-created non-worker sandboxes with cleanup.
  - --experimental_force_gc_after_build is deprecated and will be
    removed soon. Use --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build instead
  - Forward coverage-instrumented files from non-tool dependencies by
    default.
  - The used_heap_size_post_build field in BEP is populated when the
    --memory_profile flag is set
  - --run_validations defaults to true.
  - Consider label_keyed_string_dict attributes when gathering
    instrumented files for coverage.
  - Remove flag
    --experimental_forward_instrumented_files_info_by_default, now
    that this behavior is the default.
  - When using MemoryProfiler with multiple GCs via the
    --memory_profile_stable_heap_parameters flag, we do a more
    precise calculation of heap used at the end of the build. This
    will generally result in lower values.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is deprecated. Use
    --memory_profile=/dev/null instead.
  - Disable --all_incompatible_changes flag.
  - The --all_incompatible_changes flag is now a no-op
  - The `--toolchain_resolution_debug` flag now accepts regexes
    matching targets, as well as toolchain types, when choosing what
    debug messages to print.
  - Adds --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag to make the
    native.existing_rule and native.existing_rules functions more
    efficient by
    returning immutable, lightweight dict-like view objects instead
    of mutable
    dicts.
  - Add support to length-delimited protos as undeclared output
    annotations []
  - The deprecated "relative_to_caller_repository" parameter has been
    removed from the Label constructor.
  - The toolchain transition is now enabled for all toolchains.
  - incompatible_disable_depset_items is flipped
  - The --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag has been
    renamed to  --incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view
  - Bazel no longer supports Java 8. From this version on, the
    minimum required JDK is OpenJDK 11.
  - Deprecate --incompatible_applicable_licenses flag, in preparation
    for removal in Bazel 6.x.
  - Treat py_*.srcs_version="PY2" the same as "PY2ONLY".
  - The Build Event Protocol now contains file digests and sizes
    along with the file name and URI.
  - Refactor system suspend event handling.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Liddell, Alessandro Patti, Alex Eagle, Alex Eagle, Alex Eagle, Andrew Katson, Anthony Pratti, Artem V. Navrotskiy, Austin Schuh, Benedek Thaler, Benjamin Lee, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Peterson, Ben Lee, Brandon Jacklyn, Brentley Jones, bromano, Cameron Mulhern, Christopher Peterson Sauer, Christopher Sauer, Cristian Hancila, crydell-ericsson, Dan Bamikiya, Daniel McCarney, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Danny Wolf, Dave MacLachlan, Dave Nicponski, David Cummings, David, David Ostrovsky, Delwin9999, Denys Kurylenko, Dmitry Ivankov, dorranh, ecngtng, Ed Schouten, Eitan Adler, Elliotte Rusty Harold, erenon, Eric Cousineau, Ethan Steinberg, Fabian Meumertzheim, Fabian Meumertzheim, FaBrand, Felix Ehrenpfort, Finn Ball, frazze-jobb, Fredrik Medley, Garrett Holmstrom, Gautam Korlam, George Gensure, goodspark, Greg Estren, Grzegorz Lukasik, Grzegorz Lukasik, hvadehra, Ikko Ashimine, Jesse Chan, Joe Lencioni, Johannes Abt, John Laxson, Jonathan Schear, Justus Tumacder, Keith Smiley, kekxv, Kevin Hogeland, Lauri Peltonen, Liu Liu, Lszl Csomor, m, Marc Zych, Mark Karpov, Masoud Koleini, Mathieu Olivari, Matt Mackay, Mauricio Galindo, Max Liu, Menny Even Danan, menny, Michael Chinen, Nathaniel Brough, Nick Korostelev, Niek Peeters, Nikolay Shelukhin, odisseus, Oleh Stolyar, Olek Wojnar, Olle Lundberg, Omar Zuniga, Paul Gschwendtner, Peter Kasting, Philipp Schrader, Pras Velagapudi, Qais Patankar, Rabi Shanker Guha, Rahul Butani, Rai, ron-stripe, Ryan Beasley, samhowes, Samuel Giddins, Sebastian Olsson, Sergey Tyurin, Steve Siano, steve-the-bayesian, Stiopa Koltsov, susinmotion, tatiana, Tetsuo Kiso, Thaler Benedek, Thi Doan, Thi Don, Thomas Carmet, ThomasCJY, Timothe Peignier, Timothy Klim, Tobi, Torgil Svensson, Trustin Lee, Ulf Adams, Ulrik Falklof, Uri Baghin, Vaidas Pilkauskas, Vertexwahn, William Muir, wisechengyi, Wren Turkal, Xavier Bonaventura, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic, Yury Evtikhov, Yuval Kaplan, Yuval K, Yuval, [zqzzq].
copybara-service bot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Oct 19, 2022
@ShreeM01
Release 5.3.2 (2022-10-19)
f8d516e 
Baseline: 8d66a41

Cherry picks:

   + becd149:
     Remote: Cache merkle trees
   + d7628e1:
     Update DEFAULT_IOS_CPU for M1 arm64 simulator support
   + 80c56ff:
     Compile Apple tools as fat binaries if possible
   + 3c09f34:
     Add protobuf as a well known module
   + 3a5b360:
     Remote: Merge target-level exec_properties with
     --remote_default_exec_properties
   + 917e15e:
     Add -no_uuid for hermetic macOS toolchain setup
   + f5cf8b0:
     Remote: Fixes an issue when --experimental_remote_cache_async
     encounter flaky tests.
   + 77a002c:
     Remove DigestUtils.getDigestInExclusiveMode() now that SsdModule
     has …
   + 557a7e7:
     Fixes for the Starlark transition hash computation (#14251)
   + 34c7146:
     Do location expansion in copts of objc_library
   + 50274a9:
     [5.x] Remote: Add support for compression on gRPC cache (#14277)
   + 61bf2e5:
     Automated rollback of commit
     34c7146.
   + 79888fe:
     Silence a zstd-jni GCC warning.
   + 063b5c9:
     Remote: Limit max number of gRPC connections by
     --remote_max_connections.
   + fd727ec:
     Do location expansion in copts of objc_library
   + 23d0969:
     Fix _is_shared_library_extension_valid
   + 5cf1d6e:
     Remove merging of java_outputs in JavaPluginInfo.
   + cea5f4f:
     Cherrypick Bzlmod documentation (#14301)
   + 227e49e:
     Format work requests according to ndjson spec
   + ae0a6c9:
     Enable user_link_flags_feature for macosx cc_toolchain_config
   + 8c2c78c:
     Remote: Use Action's salt field to differentiate cache across
     workspaces.
   + f948989:
     [5.x] Remote: Fix "file not found" error when remote cache is
     changed from enabled to disabled.  (#14321)
   + 3069ac4:
     Delete marker file before fetching an external repository
   + c05c626:
     Remote: Fix file counting in merkletree.DirectoryTreeBuilder
   + d84f799:
     Fix remote spawn tests for remote_merkle_tree_cache=true
   + 59e16e9:
     Show skipped tests as a warning
   + 76b3c24:
     Build xcode-locator as a universal binary
   + aa52f2d:
     Exit collect_coverage.sh early if LCOV_MERGER is not set.
   + 4256d46:
     Automated rollback of commit
     d84f799.
   + dce2435:
     [apple] fix issues compiling C in objc_library for watchos/armv7k
   + bfc2413:
     5.x: Remote: Ignore blobs referenced in BEP if the generating
     action cannot be cached remotely. (#14389)
   + 5aef53a:
     Remote: Don't blocking-get when acquiring gRPC connections.
     (#14420)
   + 005361c:
     Disable IncludeValidation for ObjC in bazel
   + d703b7b:
     Update java_tools v11.6
   + 90965b0:
     Stop remote blob upload if upload is complete. (#14467)
   + dc59d9e:
     [5.x] Make remote BES uploader better (#14472)
   + 2edab73:
     Avoid too verbose warnings in terminal when cache issues
   + 1160485:
     Rename --project_id to --bes_instance_name
   + c63d9ec:
     Automated rollback of commit
     bfdfa6e.
   + b341802:
     [apple] support watchos_arm64 in toolchain
   + 43bcf80:
     Disable implicitly collecting baseline coverage for toolchain
     targets.
   + 302971e:
     Automated rollback of commit
     7d09b4a.
   + 6200202:
     Bzlmod: Starlarkify default attr values for TypeCheckedTags
   + 38117d4:
     Fix build after rc4 cherrypicks (#14581)
   + 41feb61:
     Release 5.0.0 (2022-01-19)
   + 486d153:
     Find runfiles in directories that are themselves runfiles
   + 0de7bb9:
     Don't resolve symlinks for --sandbox_base
   + 8b60c90:
     Remove uses of -lstdc++ on darwin
   + 60f757c:
     Allow Label instances as keys in select (#14755)
   + 3836ad0:
     Remote: Only waits for background tasks from remote execution.
   + 8734ccf:
     Add the default solib dir to the rpath for cc_imports with
     transitions
   + 9e16a64:
     Flip --experimental_worker_allow_json_protocol
   + fce7ea8:
     Fix `ctx.fragments.apple.single_arch_cpu` returning incorrect
     cpu for tools when host cpu and exec cpu are different
   + 0c1d09e:
     Propagate --experimental_cc_implementation_deps to host config
   + 1c3a245:
     Support select() on constraint_value for aliases.
   + 67a133b:
     Improve documentation for select()
   + 5356fed:
     Cherrypicks for experimental cc_shared_library (#14773)
   + ffdd633:
     [apple] support tvos_sim_arm64 in toolchain (#14779)
   + a58ddea:
     Cherry pick win arm64 (#14794)
   + dc41a20:
     [5.1.0] cherrypick subpackages support (#14780)
   + 86e2db7:
     Add a helper method for rules to depend on the cpp toolchain
     type.
   + 6990c02:
     UrlRewriter should be able to load credentials from .netrc
     (#14834)
   + 32d1606:
     Add "arch" struct field to repository_os
   + 2cfdcea:
     [5.x] bzlmod: Add support for WORKSPACE.bzlmod (#14813)
   + c2ddbd1:
     Ignore missing include directory in JDK distribution.
   + 16de035:
     Fix bazel coverage false negative
   + 0c74741:
     Remote: Postpone the block waiting in `afterCommand` to
     `BlockWaitingModule` (#14833)
   + 3297d92:
     Switch to `ProcessHandle` for getting the PID (#14842)
   + a987b98:
     Fix uses of std++ on bsd
   + d184e48:
     Remote: handle early return of compressed blobs uploads
   + 0b09e9e:
     Add removeprefix/removesuffix to Starlark strings
   + d42ab0c:
     Fix default CPU for macOS and iOS (#14923)
   + cd24f39:
     Add paramfile support for def_parser, since in rare cases on
     Windows command line character limit was reached.
   + 0b1beef:
     Normalize rpath entries to guard against missing default solib
     dir
   + 24e8242:
     Fix aggressive params file assumption
   + c45838b:
     Fix precompiled libs not in runfiles of cc_shared_library
     (#14943)
   + 764614e:
     Bzlmod: Allow multiple `use_extension`s on the same extension
     (#14945)
   + fa761f8:
     Fix typo in `apple_common.platform` docs
   + f7d8288:
     Yield a Proxy for addresses without protocol
   + 8cefb8b:
     Avoid merging URLs in HttpUtils
   + b480480:
     Make protocOpts() public. (#14952)
   + 113eaca:
     Do not hide BulkTransferException messages when there were more
     than one exception
   + b1bf9d6:
     merkle_tree_cache: change default size to 1000
   + f15e0c7:
     Add --experimental_repository_cache_urls_as_default_canonical_id
     to help detect broken repository URLs (#14989)
   + f421474:
     Expose the logic to read user netrc file
   + b858ec3:
     Correct cpu and os values of `local_config_cc_toolchains` targets
   + 5e79972:
     Expose CoverageOutputGenerator on a Fragment (#14997)
   + 78f0311:
     Correct error runfiles cc_shared_library (#14998)
   + 7937dd1:
     [5.1] Adding Starlark dependencies to the package //external
     (#14991)
   + a73aa12:
     Remote: Fix crashes with InterruptedException when using http
     cache.
   + f8707c0:
     Account for interface libraries in cc_shared_library
   + a570f5f:
     Fix coverage runfiles directory issue
   + 95de355:
     Do not validate input-only settings in transitions (#15048)
   + 71747cc:
     Filter out system headers on macOS.
   + cb6500a:
     Update Bazel bootstrap documentation and remove obsolete flags.
     (#15065)
   + 4c031d1:
     [5.1] Undocument --bes_best_effort (#15066)
   + 267142f:
     Fix conflicting actions error when specifying
     --host_macos_minimum_os (#15068)
   + f192362:
     [5.1] Remote: Action should not be successful and cached if
     outputs were not created (#15071)
   + 00d74ff:
     Support decompressing zstd tar archives for repository rules.
   + f585783:
     Remote: Don't check TreeArtifact output
   + efb2b80:
     osx_cc_wrapper: Only expand existing response files
   + c771c43:
     Remote: Fix crashes by InterruptedException when dynamic
     execution is enabled. (#15091)
   + 3785677:
     Use python3 on macOS
   + 815d9e4:
     Release 5.1.0 (2022-03-24)
   + 1fbb69e:
     Prepare 5.1.1 release
   + df153df:
     Fix CODEOWNERS syntax
   + 2b92a31:
     Remote: Don't check declared outputs for failed action
   + b47aa71:
     Upgrade abseil version to the latest
   + c49c45d:
     Revert default export all symbols on Windows
   + 7d3fb99:
     Support ZIP files with total number of disks = 0
   + 0f5dc11:
     Release 5.1.1 (2022-04-08)
   + 2422cfb:
     Update CODEOWNERS
   + bbcff18:
     [5.2.0] Update java_tools 11.7.1 (#15231)
   + 9c98120:
     Add support for .ar archives (and .deb files)
   + d3435b0:
     Seperate GetSelfPath implementation for Blaze and Bazel
   + c94572b:
     Include jdk.crypto.mscapi in minimized Windows embedded JDK
   + 299022c:
     remote: Proactively close the ZstdInputStream in
     ZstdDecompressingOutputStream.
   + 2770799:
     Collect coverage from cc_binary data deps of java_test
   + 3442179:
     Configure Apple crosstool to return a complete target triple
     that includes minimum OS version and target environment
   + bb6f1a7:
     Collect C++ lcov coverage if runtime object not in runfiles
   + dbb6e99:
     Fixing dependencies of //external package
   + f0213bb:
     [5.2] Upgrade Google Auth Version (#15383)
   + a1a74c9:
     Fix chocolatey package - docsUrl must not 404 (#15395)
   + fe644be:
     Fix cache leak when applying transitions when only a rule's
     attributes change.
   + ad74d52:
     Fix checking remote cache for omitted files in buildevent file
     (#15405)
   + ac21910:
     fix(bzlmod): throw on json parse exception
   + 3d85b88:
     Add a flag to expose undeclared test outputs in unzipped form.
     (#15431)
   + abd7a9f:
     Remove -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE when thin_lto is enabled (#15433)
   + 53b9cb8:
     Catch NumberFormatException while trying to parse thread id.
   + 19740b5:
     Improve the --sandbox_debug error message
   + 0a2a43f:
     Set keywords on appropriate lifecycle events.
   + 394ddb8:
     Record additional profiling information for remotely executed
     actions.
   + 652b48e:
     Fix downloading remote execution output files inside output
     dirs. (#15444)
   + 73f1ecb:
     Fix android emulator darwin_arm64 select
   + 2649c7c:
     Fix --use_top_level_targets_for_symlinks with aliases (#15446)
   + fa1081c:
     Filter libtool warning about table of contents
   + 26f8783:
     Unify sandbox/remote handling of empty TreeArtifact inputs
     (#15449)
   + 6b21b77:
     Revert "Fixes incorrect install names on darwin platforms"
   + e133e66:
     config doesn't error on duplicate `--define` values (#15473)
   + 84d5917:
     Collect coverage from cc_binary data deps of py_test (#15298)
   + 519d2da:
     SolibSymlinkAction does not need exec platform or properties
   + 6e54699:
     Let Starlark tests inherit env variables (#15217)
   + 9610ae8:
     Update PythonZipper action to use CommandLineItem.CapturingMapFn
   + 2f1ff6f:
     Make `coverage --combined_report=lcov` skip incompatible tests
   + 9fad5a3:
     Disable ReturnValueIgnored checks to unblock java_tools release
   + 0120118:
     Bump the limit of Bazel install base size (#15585)
   + 668805a:
     Upgrade zlib to 1.2.12
   + 4d900ce:
     [5.2] Remote: Fix a bug that outputs of actions tagged with
     no-remote are u... (#15453)
   + b703cb9:
     Add feature to produce serialized diagnostics files (#15600)
   + 2e8458b:
     Release 5.2.0 (2022-06-07)
   + 536f8d9:
     Fix fail message construction in cc_shared_library
   + 2d42925:
     Define cc-compiler-darwin in Xcode toolchain
   + a1d7d1f:
     Fix alwayslink in objc_import
   + d273cb6:
     Unify URL/URLs parameter code across http_archive, http_file,
     http_jar
   + fea32be:
     Preserve --experimental_allow_unresolved_symlinks in exec cfg
   + e4bc370:
     Ck/cherry pick cc shared library (#15754)
   + dbdfa07:
     Let Starlark executable rules specify their environment (#15766)
   + e2a6a2b:
     Fix string formatting when java_home path is missing.
   + d54a288:
     Optionally enable LLVM profile continuous mode
   + ad17b44:
     Print remote execution message when the action times out (#15772)
   + 240e3d1:
     Add missing line to cherrypick
     e4bc370 (#15784)
   + 804b474:
     Replace strdupa with strdup
   + 62be9ea:
     Bzlmod: Better canonical repo names for modules with overrides
     (#15793)
   + d4663a1:
     Add repo env test (#15768)
   + 594962c:
     Add is_root struct field to bazel_module (#15815)
   + 3dd2b93:
     Fix null pointer crash with `bazel coverage` on only
     incompatible tests
   + 4175018:
     Add util for finding credential helper to use
   + 3ea9eb2:
     Merge ManifestMergerAction-related commits into release-5.3.0
     (#15824)
   + 64571a4:
     Ck/cherrypick 15669 (#15788)
   + 1404651:
     Create output directories for remote execution (#15818)
   + ae523f8:
     Use tree artifacts in bootclasspath rule
   + 37f181c:
     [credentialhelper] Add types to communicate with the subprocess
   + 06ca634:
     Add a flag to force Bazel to download certain artifacts when
     using --remote_download_minimal (#15870)
   + d35f923:
     RemoteExecutionService: fix outputs not being uploaded
   + 78af34f:
     Cherry-pick proto_lang_toolchain Starlarkfication and
     proto_common module (#15854)
   + afb434d:
     Fix behavior of `print()` in module extensions
   + 6714c30:
     [credentialhelper] Implement invoking credential helper as
     subprocess
   + 0f05904:
     Add register_{execution_platforms,toolchains} directives to
     MODULE.bazel files (#15852)
   + 33516e2:
     [remote] Improve .netrc test in RemoteModuleTest
   + aa2a1f3:
     Fix ZipDecompressor windows 0x80 (file attribute normal)
   + 30f16e5:
     Replace uses of `cfg = "host"` with `cfg = "exec"` (#15922)
   + 2a8d0ad:
     target pattern file: allow comments
   + 6f73205:
     Add factory for creating paths relative to well-known roots
     (#15931)
   + 32cc8e6:
     Update CODEOWNERS (#15910)
   + 63bc14b:
     Implement native analysis_test call. (#15940)
   + 4df77f7:
     Increase osx_cc_configure timeouts
   + cdf01a3:
     Allow string_list flags to be set via repeated flag uses
   + 05e758d:
     [credentialhelper] Add parser for flag syntax (#15929)
   + e4ee344:
     Docs should mention the new no-remote-cache-upload tag (#15965)
   + 96d23d3:
     Add netrc support to --bes_backend (#15970)
   + c5bc34e:
     Add CommandLinePathFactory to CommandEnvironment (#15971)
   + 508f185:
     Move newCredentialHelperProvider into GoogleAuthUtils (#15973)
   + 14c944a:
     Wire up credential helper to command-line flag(s) (#15976)
   + 04c373b:
     Add `--output=files` mode to cquery (#15979)
   + edfe2a1:
     Make cpp assembly file extensions case sensitive again
   + 4ae8538:
     Prevent aspects from executing on incompatible targets (#15984)
   + f440f8e:
     Remote: Fix performance regression in "upload missing inputs".
     (#15998)
   + 0109031:
     Updated Codeowners file (#16032)
   + 6102d33:
     Propagate the error message when a credential helper fails.
     (#16030)
   + a8dacc7:
     Migrate legacy desugar wrapper to new rlocation() (#16025)
   + 11368be:
     Correctly report errors thrown by CommandLinePathFactory#create.
   + 82452c7:
     Fix an issue that
     `incompatible_remote_build_event_upload_respect_no_… (#16045)
   + e745468:
     Fix rpath for binaries in external repositories (#16079)
   + 83041b1:
     Refactor combined cache. (#16110)
   + c62496f:
     C++: Add compound error linked statically but not exported
     (#16113)
   + 0f18786:
     Do not crash on URIs without a host component.
   + 9c0940d:
     Add profiler task for calling a credential helper.
   + 2ca1ab2:
     Make bazel_cc_code_coverage_test more robust against GCC version
     differences (#16254)
   + 1e25152:
     Fix local execution of external dynamically linked cc_* targets
     (#16253)
   + f6cccae:
     * add change to allow blaze info to skip Starlark build settings
     that start with --no prefix * add unit tests for both info and
     clean commands
   + 59b8b8f:
     Release 5.3.1 (2022-09-19)
   + 77f0233:
     Update GrpcRemoteDownloader to only include relevant headers.
     (#16450)
   + 42ff95a:
     Avoid unnecessary iteration on action inputs.
   + d29034e:
     Update flag `--experimental_remote_download_regex` to accept
     multiple regular expressions. (#16478)

Incompatible changes:

  - Removing java_common.javac_jar Starlark call.
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change
    because there is some code that relies on the precise type
    returned, including brittle workarounds for this bug specifically
    and insufficiently flexible workarounds for other issues with the
    intersection of select and native.existing_rule.
  - flipped incompatible_use_toolchain_resolution_for_java_rules, see
    #7849
  - Query output=xml/proto/location for source files will now show
    the location of line 1 of the source file (as the new default)
    instead of its location in the BUILD file.
  - Specifying a target pattern underneath a directory specified by
    .bazelignore will now emit a warning, not an error.
  - Query `--order_output=auto` will now sort lexicographically.
    However, when `somepath` is used as a top level function (e.g.
    `query 'somepath(a, b)'`), it will continue to output in
    dependency order. If you do not want the lexicographical output
    ordering, specify another `--order_output` value (`no`, `deps` or
    `full`) based on what ordering you require.
  - In the build event stream,
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_loaded is no longer populated.
    Its value was always mostly meaningless.
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_configured and
    BuildMetrics.ActionSummary.actions_created now include configured
    aspect data.
  - //visibility:legacy_public has been removed.
  - Flip and remove incompatible_dont_collect_so_artifacts
    (#13043).
  - Remove flag --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink: it is
    always true.
  - The Starlark method generate_dsym in objc fragment has
    been deleted.  Please use the equivalent apple_generate_dsym in
    cpp
    fragment instead.
  - Native libraries in data attribute are not collected. See
    #13550 for details
  - Enforce the `--profile` path to be absolute.
  - Enforce the --memory_profile path to be absolute.
  - JavaToolchainInfo.jvm_opt returns Depset instead of a list.
  - --apple_sdk has been deleted.  It is a no-op.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is now a no-op and will
    be deleted in a future release. Use --memory_profile=/dev/null
    instead.
  - Flipped --incompatible_disallow_resource_jars (see
    #13221).
  - Remove --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build
  - JSON trace profile: rename counter names.
  - Removed --action_graph from the dump command.
  - Remove `--{experimental_,}json_trace_compression` option.
  - Remove `--experimental_profile_cpu_usage`.
  - flipped --incompatible_java_common_parameters (see #12373)
  - GrpcRemoteDownloader only includes relevant headers instead of
    sending all credentials.

    Closes #16439.

New features:

  - Args.add_all and Args.add_joined can now accept closures in
    map_each if explicitly enabled via allow_closure.
  - Add `--bes_header` flag to pass extra headers to the BES server.

Important changes:

  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - none
    PAIR=cmita
  - The --incompatible_load_python_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Filter all (instead of just C++) source files for coverage output
    according to --instrumentation_filter and
    --instrument_test_targets.
  - The `--incompatible_disable_native_apple_binary_rule` flag has
    been added which disables the native `apple_binary` rule. Users
    who need to use `apple_binary` directly (if they cannot use one
    of the more specific Apple rules) should load it from
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple.
  - The Android rules' --use_singlejar_apkbuilder is now a no-op.
    SingleJar will always be used to build APKs.
  - dict.setdefault(key, ...) now fails if dict is frozen, even if it
    already contains key. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.
     See #11359.
  - Starlark now permits def statements to be nested (closures).
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change,
    though the fallout is expected to be small.
  - Starlark now supports lambda (anonymous function) expressions.
  - The "test" and "coverage" commands no longer return 3 when a
    test action fails because of a system error. Instead, the exit
    code
    reflects the type of system error.
  - The undocumented ctx.expand feature no longer exists.
  - Make --legacy_dynamic_scheduler a no-op flag.
  - Multiplex persistent workers can now use the JSON protocol.
  - native.existing_rule now returns a mutable list, not a tuple, for
    a list-valued attributes. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Roll back change to have native.existing_rules use list instead
    of tuple.
  - BEP includes test suite expansions.
  - config_setting now honors `visibility` attribute (and defaults to
    `//visibility:public`)
  - Change the MultiArchSplitTransitionProvider to be based on
    platform type + CPU instead of fixed "ios_" + cpu.
  - enforce config_setting visibility. See
    #12932 for details.
  - add a flag to build v4 signature file
  - Added _direct_source_jars output group to Java related targets.
    END_PUBLIC
  - pkg_deb is no longer part of @bazel_tools//build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl.
    Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/main/pkg instead
  - Allowing the lipo operations to be conditional in the
    linkMultiArchBinary API for Apple binaries. Single architecture
    slices are now returned through AppleBinaryOutput and the
    Starlark API.
  - Release restriction for "-" in the package name for Python
    sources. Now `py_binary` and `py_test` targets can have main
    source file with "-" in the path.
  - Users consuming BEP may assume that a `named_set_of_files` event
    will
    appear before any event referencing that `named_set` by ID. This
    allows consumers
    to process the files for such events (eg. `TargetCompleted`)
    immediately.
  - BEP includes all files from successful actions in requested
    output groups.
    Previously, an output group's files were excluded if any file in
    the output group
    was not produced due to a failing action. Users can expect BEP
    output to be larger
    for failed builds.
  - In BEP, TargetComplete.output_group has a new field `incomplete`
    indicating that the file_sets field is missing one or more
    declared artifacts
    whose generating actions failed.
  - The flag `--toolchain_resolution_debug` now takes a regex
    argument, which is used to check which toolchain types should
    have debug info printed. You may use `.*` as an argument to keep
    the current behavior of debugging every toolchain type.
  - Add runfiles.merge_all() for merging a sequence of runfiles
    objects.
  - runfiles.merge() and merge_all() now respect
    --nested_set_depth_limit.
    If you hit the depth limit because you were calling merge() in a
    loop, use
    merge_all() on a sequence of runfiles objects instead.
  - Bazel will no longer create a bazel-out symlink if
    --symlink_prefix is specified: the directory pointed to via the
    bazel-out symlink is accessible via ${symlink_prefix}-out. If
    this causes problems for you, set
    --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink=false in your builds
    and file an issue.
  - Updates worker protocol with cancellation fields, and adds
    experimental_worker_cancellation flag to control cancellation.
  - Simplify build failure output by always using `NNN arguments`.
  - trim_test_configuration now defaults to on
  - Mark genrule.srcs as a source attribute for coverage.
  - When using --allow_analysis_failures (for example, via
    bazel-skylib's
    analysistest with `expect_failure = True`), analysis-time
    failures in aspect
    implementation functions will now be propagated and saved in
    AnalysisFailureInfo, just like analysis-time failures in rules.
  - cquery --noimplicit_deps now correctly filters out resolved
    cc_toolchains
  - Sign apks deterministically.
  - Make gcov optional in cc_toolchain tools.
  - If --experimental_prefer_mutual_xcode is passed, Bazel will
    choose the local default (instead of the newest mutually
    available version) if it's available both locally and remotely.
  - Remove java_lite_proto_library.strict_deps attribute.
  - Generate proguard configurations deterministically.
  - Adds a new flag, `--incompatible_enable_cc_test_feature` which
    switches from the use of build variables to the feature of the
    same name.
  - Dropped fragile xz support from built in pkg_tar. Users requiring
    xz
    compression should switch to bazlebuild/rules_pkg.
  - If all strategies of one branch (the local or remote execution
    branch) of the `dynamic` strategy fail to even accept (via the
    response they give from `canExec`) the action, `dynamic` will now
    try to see if the other branch can accept it. (Trying to run it
    and it failing will still cause a failure if it was the first
    result, this is about strategies claiming they can't even try the
    action)
  - Add `disable_annotation_processing` option to
    `java_common.compile`, which disables any annotation processors
    passed to `plugins` or in `exported_plugins` of `deps`
  - Remove obsolete --incompatible_prohibit_aapt1
  - The minimum Android build tools version for the Android rules is
    now 30.0.0
  - Adds --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories flag to reuse
    already-created non-worker sandboxes with cleanup.
  - --experimental_force_gc_after_build is deprecated and will be
    removed soon. Use --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build instead
  - Forward coverage-instrumented files from non-tool dependencies by
    default.
  - The used_heap_size_post_build field in BEP is populated when the
    --memory_profile flag is set
  - --run_validations defaults to true.
  - Consider label_keyed_string_dict attributes when gathering
    instrumented files for coverage.
  - Remove flag
    --experimental_forward_instrumented_files_info_by_default, now
    that this behavior is the default.
  - When using MemoryProfiler with multiple GCs via the
    --memory_profile_stable_heap_parameters flag, we do a more
    precise calculation of heap used at the end of the build. This
    will generally result in lower values.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is deprecated. Use
    --memory_profile=/dev/null instead.
  - Disable --all_incompatible_changes flag.
  - The --all_incompatible_changes flag is now a no-op
  - The `--toolchain_resolution_debug` flag now accepts regexes
    matching targets, as well as toolchain types, when choosing what
    debug messages to print.
  - Adds --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag to make the
    native.existing_rule and native.existing_rules functions more
    efficient by
    returning immutable, lightweight dict-like view objects instead
    of mutable
    dicts.
  - Add support to length-delimited protos as undeclared output
    annotations []
  - The deprecated "relative_to_caller_repository" parameter has been
    removed from the Label constructor.
  - The toolchain transition is now enabled for all toolchains.
  - incompatible_disable_depset_items is flipped
  - The --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag has been
    renamed to  --incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view
  - Bazel no longer supports Java 8. From this version on, the
    minimum required JDK is OpenJDK 11.
  - alias() can now select() directly on constraint_value()

    Fixes #13047.

    Closes #14310.
  - Fixed an issue where Bazel could erroneously report a test passes
    in coverage mode without actually running the test.
  - Make protocOpts() publicly accessible.
  - Add coverage configuration fragment, used to expose
    output_generator label.
  - Bazel now no longer includes system headers on macOS in coverage
    reports (#14969).

    Closes #14971.
  - Starlark test rules can use the new inherited_environment
    parameter of testing.TestEnvironment to specify environment
    variables
    whose values should be inherited from the shell environment.

    Closes #14849.
  - none
    RELNOTES:none
  - Enable merging permissions during Android manifest merging with
    the --merge_android_manifest_permissions flag.
  - Added new register_{execution_platforms,toolchains} directives to
    the MODULE.bazel file, to replace the
    {execution_platforms,toolchains}_to_register attributes on the
    module() directive.
  - Add support for fetching RPC credentials from credential helper.

    Progress on #15856

    Closes #15947.
  - `cquery`'s new output mode
    [`--output=files`](https://bazel.build/docs/cquery#files-output)
    lists the output files of the targets matching the query. It
    takes the current value of `--output_groups` into account.

    Closes #15552.
  - Fix for desugaring failure on Bazel+Android+Windows build
    scenario.

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ShreeM01 pushed a commit that referenced this issue Nov 4, 2022
@ShreeM01
Release 5.3.2 (2022-10-19)
bc087f4 
Baseline: 8d66a41

Cherry picks:

   + becd149:
     Remote: Cache merkle trees
   + d7628e1:
     Update DEFAULT_IOS_CPU for M1 arm64 simulator support
   + 80c56ff:
     Compile Apple tools as fat binaries if possible
   + 3c09f34:
     Add protobuf as a well known module
   + 3a5b360:
     Remote: Merge target-level exec_properties with
     --remote_default_exec_properties
   + 917e15e:
     Add -no_uuid for hermetic macOS toolchain setup
   + f5cf8b0:
     Remote: Fixes an issue when --experimental_remote_cache_async
     encounter flaky tests.
   + 77a002c:
     Remove DigestUtils.getDigestInExclusiveMode() now that SsdModule
     has …
   + 557a7e7:
     Fixes for the Starlark transition hash computation (#14251)
   + 34c7146:
     Do location expansion in copts of objc_library
   + 50274a9:
     [5.x] Remote: Add support for compression on gRPC cache (#14277)
   + 61bf2e5:
     Automated rollback of commit
     34c7146.
   + 79888fe:
     Silence a zstd-jni GCC warning.
   + 063b5c9:
     Remote: Limit max number of gRPC connections by
     --remote_max_connections.
   + fd727ec:
     Do location expansion in copts of objc_library
   + 23d0969:
     Fix _is_shared_library_extension_valid
   + 5cf1d6e:
     Remove merging of java_outputs in JavaPluginInfo.
   + cea5f4f:
     Cherrypick Bzlmod documentation (#14301)
   + 227e49e:
     Format work requests according to ndjson spec
   + ae0a6c9:
     Enable user_link_flags_feature for macosx cc_toolchain_config
   + 8c2c78c:
     Remote: Use Action's salt field to differentiate cache across
     workspaces.
   + f948989:
     [5.x] Remote: Fix "file not found" error when remote cache is
     changed from enabled to disabled.  (#14321)
   + 3069ac4:
     Delete marker file before fetching an external repository
   + c05c626:
     Remote: Fix file counting in merkletree.DirectoryTreeBuilder
   + d84f799:
     Fix remote spawn tests for remote_merkle_tree_cache=true
   + 59e16e9:
     Show skipped tests as a warning
   + 76b3c24:
     Build xcode-locator as a universal binary
   + aa52f2d:
     Exit collect_coverage.sh early if LCOV_MERGER is not set.
   + 4256d46:
     Automated rollback of commit
     d84f799.
   + dce2435:
     [apple] fix issues compiling C in objc_library for watchos/armv7k
   + bfc2413:
     5.x: Remote: Ignore blobs referenced in BEP if the generating
     action cannot be cached remotely. (#14389)
   + 5aef53a:
     Remote: Don't blocking-get when acquiring gRPC connections.
     (#14420)
   + 005361c:
     Disable IncludeValidation for ObjC in bazel
   + d703b7b:
     Update java_tools v11.6
   + 90965b0:
     Stop remote blob upload if upload is complete. (#14467)
   + dc59d9e:
     [5.x] Make remote BES uploader better (#14472)
   + 2edab73:
     Avoid too verbose warnings in terminal when cache issues
   + 1160485:
     Rename --project_id to --bes_instance_name
   + c63d9ec:
     Automated rollback of commit
     bfdfa6e.
   + b341802:
     [apple] support watchos_arm64 in toolchain
   + 43bcf80:
     Disable implicitly collecting baseline coverage for toolchain
     targets.
   + 302971e:
     Automated rollback of commit
     7d09b4a.
   + 6200202:
     Bzlmod: Starlarkify default attr values for TypeCheckedTags
   + 38117d4:
     Fix build after rc4 cherrypicks (#14581)
   + 41feb61:
     Release 5.0.0 (2022-01-19)
   + 486d153:
     Find runfiles in directories that are themselves runfiles
   + 0de7bb9:
     Don't resolve symlinks for --sandbox_base
   + 8b60c90:
     Remove uses of -lstdc++ on darwin
   + 60f757c:
     Allow Label instances as keys in select (#14755)
   + 3836ad0:
     Remote: Only waits for background tasks from remote execution.
   + 8734ccf:
     Add the default solib dir to the rpath for cc_imports with
     transitions
   + 9e16a64:
     Flip --experimental_worker_allow_json_protocol
   + fce7ea8:
     Fix `ctx.fragments.apple.single_arch_cpu` returning incorrect
     cpu for tools when host cpu and exec cpu are different
   + 0c1d09e:
     Propagate --experimental_cc_implementation_deps to host config
   + 1c3a245:
     Support select() on constraint_value for aliases.
   + 67a133b:
     Improve documentation for select()
   + 5356fed:
     Cherrypicks for experimental cc_shared_library (#14773)
   + ffdd633:
     [apple] support tvos_sim_arm64 in toolchain (#14779)
   + a58ddea:
     Cherry pick win arm64 (#14794)
   + dc41a20:
     [5.1.0] cherrypick subpackages support (#14780)
   + 86e2db7:
     Add a helper method for rules to depend on the cpp toolchain
     type.
   + 6990c02:
     UrlRewriter should be able to load credentials from .netrc
     (#14834)
   + 32d1606:
     Add "arch" struct field to repository_os
   + 2cfdcea:
     [5.x] bzlmod: Add support for WORKSPACE.bzlmod (#14813)
   + c2ddbd1:
     Ignore missing include directory in JDK distribution.
   + 16de035:
     Fix bazel coverage false negative
   + 0c74741:
     Remote: Postpone the block waiting in `afterCommand` to
     `BlockWaitingModule` (#14833)
   + 3297d92:
     Switch to `ProcessHandle` for getting the PID (#14842)
   + a987b98:
     Fix uses of std++ on bsd
   + d184e48:
     Remote: handle early return of compressed blobs uploads
   + 0b09e9e:
     Add removeprefix/removesuffix to Starlark strings
   + d42ab0c:
     Fix default CPU for macOS and iOS (#14923)
   + cd24f39:
     Add paramfile support for def_parser, since in rare cases on
     Windows command line character limit was reached.
   + 0b1beef:
     Normalize rpath entries to guard against missing default solib
     dir
   + 24e8242:
     Fix aggressive params file assumption
   + c45838b:
     Fix precompiled libs not in runfiles of cc_shared_library
     (#14943)
   + 764614e:
     Bzlmod: Allow multiple `use_extension`s on the same extension
     (#14945)
   + fa761f8:
     Fix typo in `apple_common.platform` docs
   + f7d8288:
     Yield a Proxy for addresses without protocol
   + 8cefb8b:
     Avoid merging URLs in HttpUtils
   + b480480:
     Make protocOpts() public. (#14952)
   + 113eaca:
     Do not hide BulkTransferException messages when there were more
     than one exception
   + b1bf9d6:
     merkle_tree_cache: change default size to 1000
   + f15e0c7:
     Add --experimental_repository_cache_urls_as_default_canonical_id
     to help detect broken repository URLs (#14989)
   + f421474:
     Expose the logic to read user netrc file
   + b858ec3:
     Correct cpu and os values of `local_config_cc_toolchains` targets
   + 5e79972:
     Expose CoverageOutputGenerator on a Fragment (#14997)
   + 78f0311:
     Correct error runfiles cc_shared_library (#14998)
   + 7937dd1:
     [5.1] Adding Starlark dependencies to the package //external
     (#14991)
   + a73aa12:
     Remote: Fix crashes with InterruptedException when using http
     cache.
   + f8707c0:
     Account for interface libraries in cc_shared_library
   + a570f5f:
     Fix coverage runfiles directory issue
   + 95de355:
     Do not validate input-only settings in transitions (#15048)
   + 71747cc:
     Filter out system headers on macOS.
   + cb6500a:
     Update Bazel bootstrap documentation and remove obsolete flags.
     (#15065)
   + 4c031d1:
     [5.1] Undocument --bes_best_effort (#15066)
   + 267142f:
     Fix conflicting actions error when specifying
     --host_macos_minimum_os (#15068)
   + f192362:
     [5.1] Remote: Action should not be successful and cached if
     outputs were not created (#15071)
   + 00d74ff:
     Support decompressing zstd tar archives for repository rules.
   + f585783:
     Remote: Don't check TreeArtifact output
   + efb2b80:
     osx_cc_wrapper: Only expand existing response files
   + c771c43:
     Remote: Fix crashes by InterruptedException when dynamic
     execution is enabled. (#15091)
   + 3785677:
     Use python3 on macOS
   + 815d9e4:
     Release 5.1.0 (2022-03-24)
   + 1fbb69e:
     Prepare 5.1.1 release
   + df153df:
     Fix CODEOWNERS syntax
   + 2b92a31:
     Remote: Don't check declared outputs for failed action
   + b47aa71:
     Upgrade abseil version to the latest
   + c49c45d:
     Revert default export all symbols on Windows
   + 7d3fb99:
     Support ZIP files with total number of disks = 0
   + 0f5dc11:
     Release 5.1.1 (2022-04-08)
   + 2422cfb:
     Update CODEOWNERS
   + bbcff18:
     [5.2.0] Update java_tools 11.7.1 (#15231)
   + 9c98120:
     Add support for .ar archives (and .deb files)
   + d3435b0:
     Seperate GetSelfPath implementation for Blaze and Bazel
   + c94572b:
     Include jdk.crypto.mscapi in minimized Windows embedded JDK
   + 299022c:
     remote: Proactively close the ZstdInputStream in
     ZstdDecompressingOutputStream.
   + 2770799:
     Collect coverage from cc_binary data deps of java_test
   + 3442179:
     Configure Apple crosstool to return a complete target triple
     that includes minimum OS version and target environment
   + bb6f1a7:
     Collect C++ lcov coverage if runtime object not in runfiles
   + dbb6e99:
     Fixing dependencies of //external package
   + f0213bb:
     [5.2] Upgrade Google Auth Version (#15383)
   + a1a74c9:
     Fix chocolatey package - docsUrl must not 404 (#15395)
   + fe644be:
     Fix cache leak when applying transitions when only a rule's
     attributes change.
   + ad74d52:
     Fix checking remote cache for omitted files in buildevent file
     (#15405)
   + ac21910:
     fix(bzlmod): throw on json parse exception
   + 3d85b88:
     Add a flag to expose undeclared test outputs in unzipped form.
     (#15431)
   + abd7a9f:
     Remove -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE when thin_lto is enabled (#15433)
   + 53b9cb8:
     Catch NumberFormatException while trying to parse thread id.
   + 19740b5:
     Improve the --sandbox_debug error message
   + 0a2a43f:
     Set keywords on appropriate lifecycle events.
   + 394ddb8:
     Record additional profiling information for remotely executed
     actions.
   + 652b48e:
     Fix downloading remote execution output files inside output
     dirs. (#15444)
   + 73f1ecb:
     Fix android emulator darwin_arm64 select
   + 2649c7c:
     Fix --use_top_level_targets_for_symlinks with aliases (#15446)
   + fa1081c:
     Filter libtool warning about table of contents
   + 26f8783:
     Unify sandbox/remote handling of empty TreeArtifact inputs
     (#15449)
   + 6b21b77:
     Revert "Fixes incorrect install names on darwin platforms"
   + e133e66:
     config doesn't error on duplicate `--define` values (#15473)
   + 84d5917:
     Collect coverage from cc_binary data deps of py_test (#15298)
   + 519d2da:
     SolibSymlinkAction does not need exec platform or properties
   + 6e54699:
     Let Starlark tests inherit env variables (#15217)
   + 9610ae8:
     Update PythonZipper action to use CommandLineItem.CapturingMapFn
   + 2f1ff6f:
     Make `coverage --combined_report=lcov` skip incompatible tests
   + 9fad5a3:
     Disable ReturnValueIgnored checks to unblock java_tools release
   + 0120118:
     Bump the limit of Bazel install base size (#15585)
   + 668805a:
     Upgrade zlib to 1.2.12
   + 4d900ce:
     [5.2] Remote: Fix a bug that outputs of actions tagged with
     no-remote are u... (#15453)
   + b703cb9:
     Add feature to produce serialized diagnostics files (#15600)
   + 2e8458b:
     Release 5.2.0 (2022-06-07)
   + 536f8d9:
     Fix fail message construction in cc_shared_library
   + 2d42925:
     Define cc-compiler-darwin in Xcode toolchain
   + a1d7d1f:
     Fix alwayslink in objc_import
   + d273cb6:
     Unify URL/URLs parameter code across http_archive, http_file,
     http_jar
   + fea32be:
     Preserve --experimental_allow_unresolved_symlinks in exec cfg
   + e4bc370:
     Ck/cherry pick cc shared library (#15754)
   + dbdfa07:
     Let Starlark executable rules specify their environment (#15766)
   + e2a6a2b:
     Fix string formatting when java_home path is missing.
   + d54a288:
     Optionally enable LLVM profile continuous mode
   + ad17b44:
     Print remote execution message when the action times out (#15772)
   + 240e3d1:
     Add missing line to cherrypick
     e4bc370 (#15784)
   + 804b474:
     Replace strdupa with strdup
   + 62be9ea:
     Bzlmod: Better canonical repo names for modules with overrides
     (#15793)
   + d4663a1:
     Add repo env test (#15768)
   + 594962c:
     Add is_root struct field to bazel_module (#15815)
   + 3dd2b93:
     Fix null pointer crash with `bazel coverage` on only
     incompatible tests
   + 4175018:
     Add util for finding credential helper to use
   + 3ea9eb2:
     Merge ManifestMergerAction-related commits into release-5.3.0
     (#15824)
   + 64571a4:
     Ck/cherrypick 15669 (#15788)
   + 1404651:
     Create output directories for remote execution (#15818)
   + ae523f8:
     Use tree artifacts in bootclasspath rule
   + 37f181c:
     [credentialhelper] Add types to communicate with the subprocess
   + 06ca634:
     Add a flag to force Bazel to download certain artifacts when
     using --remote_download_minimal (#15870)
   + d35f923:
     RemoteExecutionService: fix outputs not being uploaded
   + 78af34f:
     Cherry-pick proto_lang_toolchain Starlarkfication and
     proto_common module (#15854)
   + afb434d:
     Fix behavior of `print()` in module extensions
   + 6714c30:
     [credentialhelper] Implement invoking credential helper as
     subprocess
   + 0f05904:
     Add register_{execution_platforms,toolchains} directives to
     MODULE.bazel files (#15852)
   + 33516e2:
     [remote] Improve .netrc test in RemoteModuleTest
   + aa2a1f3:
     Fix ZipDecompressor windows 0x80 (file attribute normal)
   + 30f16e5:
     Replace uses of `cfg = "host"` with `cfg = "exec"` (#15922)
   + 2a8d0ad:
     target pattern file: allow comments
   + 6f73205:
     Add factory for creating paths relative to well-known roots
     (#15931)
   + 32cc8e6:
     Update CODEOWNERS (#15910)
   + 63bc14b:
     Implement native analysis_test call. (#15940)
   + 4df77f7:
     Increase osx_cc_configure timeouts
   + cdf01a3:
     Allow string_list flags to be set via repeated flag uses
   + 05e758d:
     [credentialhelper] Add parser for flag syntax (#15929)
   + e4ee344:
     Docs should mention the new no-remote-cache-upload tag (#15965)
   + 96d23d3:
     Add netrc support to --bes_backend (#15970)
   + c5bc34e:
     Add CommandLinePathFactory to CommandEnvironment (#15971)
   + 508f185:
     Move newCredentialHelperProvider into GoogleAuthUtils (#15973)
   + 14c944a:
     Wire up credential helper to command-line flag(s) (#15976)
   + 04c373b:
     Add `--output=files` mode to cquery (#15979)
   + edfe2a1:
     Make cpp assembly file extensions case sensitive again
   + 4ae8538:
     Prevent aspects from executing on incompatible targets (#15984)
   + f440f8e:
     Remote: Fix performance regression in "upload missing inputs".
     (#15998)
   + 0109031:
     Updated Codeowners file (#16032)
   + 6102d33:
     Propagate the error message when a credential helper fails.
     (#16030)
   + a8dacc7:
     Migrate legacy desugar wrapper to new rlocation() (#16025)
   + 11368be:
     Correctly report errors thrown by CommandLinePathFactory#create.
   + 82452c7:
     Fix an issue that
     `incompatible_remote_build_event_upload_respect_no_… (#16045)
   + e745468:
     Fix rpath for binaries in external repositories (#16079)
   + 83041b1:
     Refactor combined cache. (#16110)
   + c62496f:
     C++: Add compound error linked statically but not exported
     (#16113)
   + 0f18786:
     Do not crash on URIs without a host component.
   + 9c0940d:
     Add profiler task for calling a credential helper.
   + 2ca1ab2:
     Make bazel_cc_code_coverage_test more robust against GCC version
     differences (#16254)
   + 1e25152:
     Fix local execution of external dynamically linked cc_* targets
     (#16253)
   + f6cccae:
     * add change to allow blaze info to skip Starlark build settings
     that start with --no prefix * add unit tests for both info and
     clean commands
   + 59b8b8f:
     Release 5.3.1 (2022-09-19)
   + 77f0233:
     Update GrpcRemoteDownloader to only include relevant headers.
     (#16450)
   + 42ff95a:
     Avoid unnecessary iteration on action inputs.
   + d29034e:
     Update flag `--experimental_remote_download_regex` to accept
     multiple regular expressions. (#16478)

Incompatible changes:

  - Removing java_common.javac_jar Starlark call.
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change
    because there is some code that relies on the precise type
    returned, including brittle workarounds for this bug specifically
    and insufficiently flexible workarounds for other issues with the
    intersection of select and native.existing_rule.
  - flipped incompatible_use_toolchain_resolution_for_java_rules, see
    #7849
  - Query output=xml/proto/location for source files will now show
    the location of line 1 of the source file (as the new default)
    instead of its location in the BUILD file.
  - Specifying a target pattern underneath a directory specified by
    .bazelignore will now emit a warning, not an error.
  - Query `--order_output=auto` will now sort lexicographically.
    However, when `somepath` is used as a top level function (e.g.
    `query 'somepath(a, b)'`), it will continue to output in
    dependency order. If you do not want the lexicographical output
    ordering, specify another `--order_output` value (`no`, `deps` or
    `full`) based on what ordering you require.
  - In the build event stream,
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_loaded is no longer populated.
    Its value was always mostly meaningless.
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_configured and
    BuildMetrics.ActionSummary.actions_created now include configured
    aspect data.
  - //visibility:legacy_public has been removed.
  - Flip and remove incompatible_dont_collect_so_artifacts
    (#13043).
  - Remove flag --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink: it is
    always true.
  - The Starlark method generate_dsym in objc fragment has
    been deleted.  Please use the equivalent apple_generate_dsym in
    cpp
    fragment instead.
  - Native libraries in data attribute are not collected. See
    #13550 for details
  - Enforce the `--profile` path to be absolute.
  - Enforce the --memory_profile path to be absolute.
  - JavaToolchainInfo.jvm_opt returns Depset instead of a list.
  - --apple_sdk has been deleted.  It is a no-op.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is now a no-op and will
    be deleted in a future release. Use --memory_profile=/dev/null
    instead.
  - Flipped --incompatible_disallow_resource_jars (see
    #13221).
  - Remove --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build
  - JSON trace profile: rename counter names.
  - Removed --action_graph from the dump command.
  - Remove `--{experimental_,}json_trace_compression` option.
  - Remove `--experimental_profile_cpu_usage`.
  - flipped --incompatible_java_common_parameters (see #12373)
  - GrpcRemoteDownloader only includes relevant headers instead of
    sending all credentials.

    Closes #16439.

New features:

  - Args.add_all and Args.add_joined can now accept closures in
    map_each if explicitly enabled via allow_closure.
  - Add `--bes_header` flag to pass extra headers to the BES server.

Important changes:

  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - none
    PAIR=cmita
  - The --incompatible_load_python_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Filter all (instead of just C++) source files for coverage output
    according to --instrumentation_filter and
    --instrument_test_targets.
  - The `--incompatible_disable_native_apple_binary_rule` flag has
    been added which disables the native `apple_binary` rule. Users
    who need to use `apple_binary` directly (if they cannot use one
    of the more specific Apple rules) should load it from
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple.
  - The Android rules' --use_singlejar_apkbuilder is now a no-op.
    SingleJar will always be used to build APKs.
  - dict.setdefault(key, ...) now fails if dict is frozen, even if it
    already contains key. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.
     See #11359.
  - Starlark now permits def statements to be nested (closures).
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change,
    though the fallout is expected to be small.
  - Starlark now supports lambda (anonymous function) expressions.
  - The "test" and "coverage" commands no longer return 3 when a
    test action fails because of a system error. Instead, the exit
    code
    reflects the type of system error.
  - The undocumented ctx.expand feature no longer exists.
  - Make --legacy_dynamic_scheduler a no-op flag.
  - Multiplex persistent workers can now use the JSON protocol.
  - native.existing_rule now returns a mutable list, not a tuple, for
    a list-valued attributes. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Roll back change to have native.existing_rules use list instead
    of tuple.
  - BEP includes test suite expansions.
  - config_setting now honors `visibility` attribute (and defaults to
    `//visibility:public`)
  - Change the MultiArchSplitTransitionProvider to be based on
    platform type + CPU instead of fixed "ios_" + cpu.
  - enforce config_setting visibility. See
    #12932 for details.
  - add a flag to build v4 signature file
  - Added _direct_source_jars output group to Java related targets.
    END_PUBLIC
  - pkg_deb is no longer part of @bazel_tools//build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl.
    Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/main/pkg instead
  - Allowing the lipo operations to be conditional in the
    linkMultiArchBinary API for Apple binaries. Single architecture
    slices are now returned through AppleBinaryOutput and the
    Starlark API.
  - Release restriction for "-" in the package name for Python
    sources. Now `py_binary` and `py_test` targets can have main
    source file with "-" in the path.
  - Users consuming BEP may assume that a `named_set_of_files` event
    will
    appear before any event referencing that `named_set` by ID. This
    allows consumers
    to process the files for such events (eg. `TargetCompleted`)
    immediately.
  - BEP includes all files from successful actions in requested
    output groups.
    Previously, an output group's files were excluded if any file in
    the output group
    was not produced due to a failing action. Users can expect BEP
    output to be larger
    for failed builds.
  - In BEP, TargetComplete.output_group has a new field `incomplete`
    indicating that the file_sets field is missing one or more
    declared artifacts
    whose generating actions failed.
  - The flag `--toolchain_resolution_debug` now takes a regex
    argument, which is used to check which toolchain types should
    have debug info printed. You may use `.*` as an argument to keep
    the current behavior of debugging every toolchain type.
  - Add runfiles.merge_all() for merging a sequence of runfiles
    objects.
  - runfiles.merge() and merge_all() now respect
    --nested_set_depth_limit.
    If you hit the depth limit because you were calling merge() in a
    loop, use
    merge_all() on a sequence of runfiles objects instead.
  - Bazel will no longer create a bazel-out symlink if
    --symlink_prefix is specified: the directory pointed to via the
    bazel-out symlink is accessible via ${symlink_prefix}-out. If
    this causes problems for you, set
    --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink=false in your builds
    and file an issue.
  - Updates worker protocol with cancellation fields, and adds
    experimental_worker_cancellation flag to control cancellation.
  - Simplify build failure output by always using `NNN arguments`.
  - trim_test_configuration now defaults to on
  - Mark genrule.srcs as a source attribute for coverage.
  - When using --allow_analysis_failures (for example, via
    bazel-skylib's
    analysistest with `expect_failure = True`), analysis-time
    failures in aspect
    implementation functions will now be propagated and saved in
    AnalysisFailureInfo, just like analysis-time failures in rules.
  - cquery --noimplicit_deps now correctly filters out resolved
    cc_toolchains
  - Sign apks deterministically.
  - Make gcov optional in cc_toolchain tools.
  - If --experimental_prefer_mutual_xcode is passed, Bazel will
    choose the local default (instead of the newest mutually
    available version) if it's available both locally and remotely.
  - Remove java_lite_proto_library.strict_deps attribute.
  - Generate proguard configurations deterministically.
  - Adds a new flag, `--incompatible_enable_cc_test_feature` which
    switches from the use of build variables to the feature of the
    same name.
  - Dropped fragile xz support from built in pkg_tar. Users requiring
    xz
    compression should switch to bazlebuild/rules_pkg.
  - If all strategies of one branch (the local or remote execution
    branch) of the `dynamic` strategy fail to even accept (via the
    response they give from `canExec`) the action, `dynamic` will now
    try to see if the other branch can accept it. (Trying to run it
    and it failing will still cause a failure if it was the first
    result, this is about strategies claiming they can't even try the
    action)
  - Add `disable_annotation_processing` option to
    `java_common.compile`, which disables any annotation processors
    passed to `plugins` or in `exported_plugins` of `deps`
  - Remove obsolete --incompatible_prohibit_aapt1
  - The minimum Android build tools version for the Android rules is
    now 30.0.0
  - Adds --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories flag to reuse
    already-created non-worker sandboxes with cleanup.
  - --experimental_force_gc_after_build is deprecated and will be
    removed soon. Use --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build instead
  - Forward coverage-instrumented files from non-tool dependencies by
    default.
  - The used_heap_size_post_build field in BEP is populated when the
    --memory_profile flag is set
  - --run_validations defaults to true.
  - Consider label_keyed_string_dict attributes when gathering
    instrumented files for coverage.
  - Remove flag
    --experimental_forward_instrumented_files_info_by_default, now
    that this behavior is the default.
  - When using MemoryProfiler with multiple GCs via the
    --memory_profile_stable_heap_parameters flag, we do a more
    precise calculation of heap used at the end of the build. This
    will generally result in lower values.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is deprecated. Use
    --memory_profile=/dev/null instead.
  - Disable --all_incompatible_changes flag.
  - The --all_incompatible_changes flag is now a no-op
  - The `--toolchain_resolution_debug` flag now accepts regexes
    matching targets, as well as toolchain types, when choosing what
    debug messages to print.
  - Adds --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag to make the
    native.existing_rule and native.existing_rules functions more
    efficient by
    returning immutable, lightweight dict-like view objects instead
    of mutable
    dicts.
  - Add support to length-delimited protos as undeclared output
    annotations []
  - The deprecated "relative_to_caller_repository" parameter has been
    removed from the Label constructor.
  - The toolchain transition is now enabled for all toolchains.
  - incompatible_disable_depset_items is flipped
  - The --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag has been
    renamed to  --incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view
  - Bazel no longer supports Java 8. From this version on, the
    minimum required JDK is OpenJDK 11.
  - alias() can now select() directly on constraint_value()

    Fixes #13047.

    Closes #14310.
  - Fixed an issue where Bazel could erroneously report a test passes
    in coverage mode without actually running the test.
  - Make protocOpts() publicly accessible.
  - Add coverage configuration fragment, used to expose
    output_generator label.
  - Bazel now no longer includes system headers on macOS in coverage
    reports (#14969).

    Closes #14971.
  - Starlark test rules can use the new inherited_environment
    parameter of testing.TestEnvironment to specify environment
    variables
    whose values should be inherited from the shell environment.

    Closes #14849.
  - none
    RELNOTES:none
  - Enable merging permissions during Android manifest merging with
    the --merge_android_manifest_permissions flag.
  - Added new register_{execution_platforms,toolchains} directives to
    the MODULE.bazel file, to replace the
    {execution_platforms,toolchains}_to_register attributes on the
    module() directive.
  - Add support for fetching RPC credentials from credential helper.

    Progress on #15856

    Closes #15947.
  - `cquery`'s new output mode
    [`--output=files`](https://bazel.build/docs/cquery#files-output)
    lists the output files of the targets matching the query. It
    takes the current value of `--output_groups` into account.

    Closes #15552.
  - Fix for desugaring failure on Bazel+Android+Windows build
    scenario.

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copybara-service bot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Apr 25, 2023
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Release 7.0.0-pre.20230417.1 (2023-04-25)
a333dc1 
Baseline: 0a47a1f

Incompatible changes:

  - Removing java_common.javac_jar Starlark call.
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change
    because there is some code that relies on the precise type
    returned, including brittle workarounds for this bug specifically
    and insufficiently flexible workarounds for other issues with the
    intersection of select and native.existing_rule.
  - flipped incompatible_use_toolchain_resolution_for_java_rules, see
    #7849
  - Query output=xml/proto/location for source files will now show
    the location of line 1 of the source file (as the new default)
    instead of its location in the BUILD file.
  - Specifying a target pattern underneath a directory specified by
    .bazelignore will now emit a warning, not an error.
  - Query `--order_output=auto` will now sort lexicographically.
    However, when `somepath` is used as a top level function (e.g.
    `query 'somepath(a, b)'`), it will continue to output in
    dependency order. If you do not want the lexicographical output
    ordering, specify another `--order_output` value (`no`, `deps` or
    `full`) based on what ordering you require.
  - In the build event stream,
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_loaded is no longer populated.
    Its value was always mostly meaningless.
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_configured and
    BuildMetrics.ActionSummary.actions_created now include configured
    aspect data.
  - //visibility:legacy_public has been removed.
  - Flip and remove incompatible_dont_collect_so_artifacts
    (#13043).
  - Remove flag --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink: it is
    always true.
  - The Starlark method generate_dsym in objc fragment has
    been deleted.  Please use the equivalent apple_generate_dsym in
    cpp
    fragment instead.
  - Native libraries in data attribute are not collected. See
    #13550 for details
  - Enforce the `--profile` path to be absolute.
  - Enforce the --memory_profile path to be absolute.
  - JavaToolchainInfo.jvm_opt returns Depset instead of a list.
  - --apple_sdk has been deleted.  It is a no-op.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is now a no-op and will
    be deleted in a future release. Use --memory_profile=/dev/null
    instead.
  - Flipped --incompatible_disallow_resource_jars (see
    #13221).
  - Remove --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build
  - JSON trace profile: rename counter names.
  - Removed --action_graph from the dump command.
  - Remove `--{experimental_,}json_trace_compression` option.
  - Remove `--experimental_profile_cpu_usage`.
  - flipped --incompatible_java_common_parameters (see #12373)
  - this incompatible change breaks old instances of http_archive
    that specified netrc as an absolute path. It is unlikely there
    are many instances in the wild since the path would refer to a
    netrc file inside the external repository by absolute path.
    Migration should be straightforward.
  - genrule switched to use exec transition instead of host. This can
    break targets with hardcoded output paths. To avoid using
    hardcoded paths use make variables, see
    https://docs.bazel.build/versions/4.2.2/be/make-variables.html#pre
    defined_label_variables
  - this incompatible change breaks old instances of http_archive
    that specified netrc as an absolute path. It is unlikely there
    are many instances in the wild since...
  - Error Prone now checks for unused return values of additional
    methods on `java.lang.Object`, which can be disabled using
    `--javacopts=-Xep:ReturnValueIgnored:OFF`
  - Error Prone now checks for unused return values of additional
    methods on `java.lang.Object`, which can be disabled using
    `--javacopts=-Xep:ReturnValueIgnored:OFF`
  - The --incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view flag has been
    flipped to true. See
    #13907 for
    migration notes.
  - Split up the C++ archive from the C++ link action and set
    `CppArchive` as mnemonic.
  - workspace(managed_directories=) is not available anymore.
  - --legacy_important_outputs now has a default of false.
  - --legacy_important_outputs default reverted to true.
  - objc_library now requires CcInfo in its deps.  If this breaks
    you, add empty CcInfo() to your rule.
  - Flag --experimental_local_memory_estimate removed.
  - Added a new flag
    --incompatible_unambiguous_label_stringification, which causes
    labels in the main repo to stringify into unambiguous forms
    starting with an @. See
    #15916 for more
    information.
  - analysis_test moved into testing.analysis_test
  - Flip incompatible_enable_cc_toolchain_resolution
    (#7260)
  - (Rollback) Flip incompatible_enable_cc_toolchain_resolution
    (#7260)
  - name parameter is removed from rule call
    (#16301)
  - name parameter is removed from rule call
    (#16301)
  - name parameter is removed from rule call
    (#16301)
  - --incompatible_remote_downloader_send_all_headers is flipped to
    true. See #16356 for details.
  - GrpcRemoteDownloader only includes relevant headers instead of
    sending all credentials.
  - In package_group's `packages` attribute, the syntax "//..." now
    refers to all packages in the same repository as the package
    group, rather than all packages everywhere. The new item "public"
    can be used instead to obtain the old behavior. In `bazel query
    --output=proto` (and `--output=xml`), the `packages` attribute
    now serializes with the leading double slash included (for
    instance, `//foo/bar/...` instead of `foo/bar/...`). See also
    #16355, #16323, and #16391.
  - This has the side effect of changing the message on unsuccessful
    builds from
    ```
    FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)
    ```
    to
    ```
    ERROR: Build did NOT complete successfully
    ```
  - Bazel no longer increases the delay between progress updates when
    there is no cursor control.
  - This has the side effect of changing the message on unsuccessful
    builds from
    ```
    FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)
    ```
    to
    ```
    ERROR: Build did NOT complete successfully
    ```
  - the --experimental_async_execution flag is now a no-op.
  - --experimental_replay_action_out_err is not a no-op.
  - `cquery --output=files` also outputs source files.
  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
    #16729 for details.
  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
    #16729 for details.
  - `--incompatible_always_include_files_in_data` is flipped to true.
    See #16654 for details.
  - This changes the behavior of Python version in exec/host
    configuration. Mitigation is to set Python version on the targets.
  - When multiple --deleted_packages options are passed on the
    command line, they will be concatenated instead of the latest one
    taking effect.
  - This has the side effect of changing the message on unsuccessful
    builds from
  - JSON profile: Use doubles instead of strings for counter series.
  - query --output=proto --order_output=deps now returns targets in
    topological order (previously there was no ordering).
  - --experimental_build_transitive_python_runfiles is flipped to
    false. See #16303 for details
  - --incompatible_python_disable_py2 is flipped to true. See #17293
    for details.
  - When remote cache evicts blobs, Bazel will exit with code 39.
  - `--features` only applies to targets built in the target
    configuration, and `--host_features` is used for the host / exec
    configuration (gated behind `--incompatible_use_host_features`)
  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
    #16729 for details.
  - Bazel's local CPU resource on Linux is now container aware. Use
    `--local_cpu_resources`, `--loading_phase_threads` or `--jobs` to
    override.
  - `copy_from_rule` is exec_groups is deprecated
    (#17668).
  - --legacy_bazel_java_test is now a no-op
  - --legacy_bazel_java_test is now a no-op
  - --legacy_bazel_java_test is now a no-op
  - `--experimental_execution_graph_log` no longer exists. Current
    users that want local logs need to pass
    `--experimental_enable_execution_graph_log
    --experimental_execution_graph_log_path=/some/local/path`.
    Current users that want logs uploaded to BEP need to pass
    `--experimental_enable_execution_graph_log
    --experimental_stream_log_file_uploads`.
  - Remove 'darwin' as a CPU value, use 'darwin_x86_64' instead
  - Remove high priority workers functionality from blaze.

New features:

  - Args.add_all and Args.add_joined can now accept closures in
    map_each if explicitly enabled via allow_closure.
  - Add `--bes_header` flag to pass extra headers to the BES server.
  - Support local_repository in Bazel Registry's source.json file
  - The `aquery` and `cquery` commands now respect the
    `--query_file` flag just like the `query` command.

Important changes:

  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    #10854.
  - none
    PAIR=cmita
  - The --incompatible_load_python_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Filter all (instead of just C++) source files for coverage output
    according to --instrumentation_filter and
    --instrument_test_targets.
  - The `--incompatible_disable_native_apple_binary_rule` flag has
    been added which disables the native `apple_binary` rule. Users
    who need to use `apple_binary` directly (if they cannot use one
    of the more specific Apple rules) should load it from
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple.
  - The Android rules' --use_singlejar_apkbuilder is now a no-op.
    SingleJar will always be used to build APKs.
  - dict.setdefault(key, ...) now fails if dict is frozen, even if it
    already contains key. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.
     See #11359.
  - Starlark now permits def statements to be nested (closures).
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change,
    though the fallout is expected to be small.
  - Starlark now supports lambda (anonymous function) expressions.
  - The "test" and "coverage" commands no longer return 3 when a
    test action fails because of a system error. Instead, the exit
    code
    reflects the type of system error.
  - The undocumented ctx.expand feature no longer exists.
  - Make --legacy_dynamic_scheduler a no-op flag.
  - Multiplex persistent workers can now use the JSON protocol.
  - native.existing_rule now returns a mutable list, not a tuple, for
    a list-valued attributes. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Roll back change to have native.existing_rules use list instead
    of tuple.
  - BEP includes test suite expansions.
  - config_setting now honors `visibility` attribute (and defaults to
    `//visibility:public`)
  - Change the MultiArchSplitTransitionProvider to be based on
    platform type + CPU instead of fixed "ios_" + cpu.
  - enforce config_setting visibility. See
    #12932 for details.
  - add a flag to build v4 signature file
  - Added _direct_source_jars output group to Java related targets.
    END_PUBLIC
  - pkg_deb is no longer part of @bazel_tools//build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl.
    Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/main/pkg instead
  - Allowing the lipo operations to be conditional in the
    linkMultiArchBinary API for Apple binaries. Single architecture
    slices are now returned through AppleBinaryOutput and the
    Starlark API.
  - Release restriction for "-" in the package name for Python
    sources. Now `py_binary` and `py_test` targets can have main
    source file with "-" in the path.
  - Users consuming BEP may assume that a `named_set_of_files` event
    will
    appear before any event referencing that `named_set` by ID. This
    allows consumers
    to process the files for such events (eg. `TargetCompleted`)
    immediately.
  - BEP includes all files from successful actions in requested
    output groups.
    Previously, an output group's files were excluded if any file in
    the output group
    was not produced due to a failing action. Users can expect BEP
    output to be larger
    for failed builds.
  - In BEP, TargetComplete.output_group has a new field `incomplete`
    indicating that the file_sets field is missing one or more
    declared artifacts
    whose generating actions failed.
  - The flag `--toolchain_resolution_debug` now takes a regex
    argument, which is used to check which toolchain types should
    have debug info printed. You may use `.*` as an argument to keep
    the current behavior of debugging every toolchain type.
  - Add runfiles.merge_all() for merging a sequence of runfiles
    objects.
  - runfiles.merge() and merge_all() now respect
    --nested_set_depth_limit.
    If you hit the depth limit because you were calling merge() in a
    loop, use
    merge_all() on a sequence of runfiles objects instead.
  - Bazel will no longer create a bazel-out symlink if
    --symlink_prefix is specified: the directory pointed to via the
    bazel-out symlink is accessible via ${symlink_prefix}-out. If
    this causes problems for you, set
    --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink=false in your builds
    and file an issue.
  - Updates worker protocol with cancellation fields, and adds
    experimental_worker_cancellation flag to control cancellation.
  - Simplify build failure output by always using `NNN arguments`.
  - trim_test_configuration now defaults to on
  - Mark genrule.srcs as a source attribute for coverage.
  - When using --allow_analysis_failures (for example, via
    bazel-skylib's
    analysistest with `expect_failure = True`), analysis-time
    failures in aspect
    implementation functions will now be propagated and saved in
    AnalysisFailureInfo, just like analysis-time failures in rules.
  - cquery --noimplicit_deps now correctly filters out resolved
    cc_toolchains
  - Sign apks deterministically.
  - Make gcov optional in cc_toolchain tools.
  - If --experimental_prefer_mutual_xcode is passed, Bazel will
    choose the local default (instead of the newest mutually
    available version) if it's available both locally and remotely.
  - Remove java_lite_proto_library.strict_deps attribute.
  - Generate proguard configurations deterministically.
  - Adds a new flag, `--incompatible_enable_cc_test_feature` which
    switches from the use of build variables to the feature of the
    same name.
  - Dropped fragile xz support from built in pkg_tar. Users requiring
    xz
    compression should switch to bazlebuild/rules_pkg.
  - If all strategies of one branch (the local or remote execution
    branch) of the `dynamic` strategy fail to even accept (via the
    response they give from `canExec`) the action, `dynamic` will now
    try to see if the other branch can accept it. (Trying to run it
    and it failing will still cause a failure if it was the first
    result, this is about strategies claiming they can't even try the
    action)
  - Add `disable_annotation_processing` option to
    `java_common.compile`, which disables any annotation processors
    passed to `plugins` or in `exported_plugins` of `deps`
  - Remove obsolete --incompatible_prohibit_aapt1
  - The minimum Android build tools version for the Android rules is
    now 30.0.0
  - Adds --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories flag to reuse
    already-created non-worker sandboxes with cleanup.
  - --experimental_force_gc_after_build is deprecated and will be
    removed soon. Use --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build instead
  - Forward coverage-instrumented files from non-tool dependencies by
    default.
  - The used_heap_size_post_build field in BEP is populated when the
    --memory_profile flag is set
  - --run_validations defaults to true.
  - Consider label_keyed_string_dict attributes when gathering
    instrumented files for coverage.
  - Remove flag
    --experimental_forward_instrumented_files_info_by_default, now
    that this behavior is the default.
  - When using MemoryProfiler with multiple GCs via the
    --memory_profile_stable_heap_parameters flag, we do a more
    precise calculation of heap used at the end of the build. This
    will generally result in lower values.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is deprecated. Use
    --memory_profile=/dev/null instead.
  - Disable --all_incompatible_changes flag.
  - The --all_incompatible_changes flag is now a no-op
  - The `--toolchain_resolution_debug` flag now accepts regexes
    matching targets, as well as toolchain types, when choosing what
    debug messages to print.
  - Adds --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag to make the
    native.existing_rule and native.existing_rules functions more
    efficient by
    returning immutable, lightweight dict-like view objects instead
    of mutable
    dicts.
  - Add support to length-delimited protos as undeclared output
    annotations []
  - The deprecated "relative_to_caller_repository" parameter has been
    removed from the Label constructor.
  - The toolchain transition is now enabled for all toolchains.
  - incompatible_disable_depset_items is flipped
  - The --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag has been
    renamed to  --incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view
  - Bazel no longer supports Java 8. From this version on, the
    minimum required JDK is OpenJDK 11.
  - Deprecate --incompatible_applicable_licenses flag, in preparation
    for removal in Bazel 6.x.
  - Treat py_*.srcs_version="PY2" the same as "PY2ONLY".
  - The Build Event Protocol now contains file digests and sizes
    along with the file name and URI.
  - Refactor system suspend event handling.
  - alias() can now select() directly on constraint_value()
  - Allow \a \b \f \v escape sequences in Starlark.
  - Match remote and local xcode version by most granular version.
  - Adds `--experimental_worker_multiplex_sandboxing` flag that
    controls whether to sandbox multiplex workers that support it.
  - provider() has a new parameter: init, a callback for performing
    pre-processing and validation of field values. Iff this parameter
    is set,
    provider() returns a tuple of 2 elements: the usual provider
    symbol (which,
    when called, invokes init) and a raw constructor (which bypasses
    init).
  - Tests that fail to create or complete their
    `TestAttemptContinuation` by
    throwing an `ExecException` will report an `INCOMPLETE` status.
    Previously, Bazel
    would fail to report any status for the test attempt.
  - Fixed an issue where Bazel could erroneously report a test passes
    in coverage mode without actually running the test.
  - Include more information about configurations in cquery proto
    formatted output. This deprecates the configuration field of
    AnalysisProtosV2.ConfiguredTarget, and adds a new field,
    configuration_id, to
    be used instead.
  - experimental cc_library.implementation_deps inverted to
    interface_deps
  - In aquery and cquery proto output, indicate if a configuration is
    a
    tool or non-tool configuration.
  - Include complete configurations in cquery proto output.
  - experimental cc_library.implementation_deps inverted to
    interface_deps
  - Make protocOpts() publicly accessible.
  - Add some documentation about how configuration information is
    conveyed in cquery proto output.
  - Introduces experimental static library linking API under
    apple_common.link_multi_arch_static_library
  - Further deprecation and removal of pkg_tar. Stop supporting
    legacy use of 'files' attribute, where it could be a list of
    labels instead of a map of paths to labels.
  - Removed --incompatible_no_build_defs_pkg flag. It never fulfilled
    its purpose because --all_incompatible_changes would never set
    it. The last rule it gated (pkg_tar) is scheduled to be removed
    in Bazel 6.x.
  - Add coverage configuration fragment, used to expose
    output_generator label.
  - Bazel now no longer includes system headers on macOS in coverage
    reports (#14969).
  - android_sdk_repository read $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT in addition to
    $ANDROID_HOME.
  - The default dexer is now d8. dx can be optionally enabled using:
      --define=android_dexmerger_tool=dx_dexmerger \
      --define=android_incremental_dexing_tool=dx_dexbuilder \
      --define=android_standalone_dexing_tool=dx_compat_dx \
      --use_workers_with_dexbuilder
  - Packaging support for deploy JAR embedded JDK files (hermetic
    Java).
  - Don't stamp cc_common.link actions for tool dependencies.
  - Starlark test rules can use the new inherited_environment
    parameter of testing.TestEnvironment to specify environment
    variables
    whose values should be inherited from the shell environment.
  - Enable merging permissions during Android manifest merging with
    the --merge_android_manifest_permissions flag.
  - Allow specialization to work with constraint_values.
  - Bazel uses the D8 jar from Maven instead of the SDK.
  - Make ijar / java_import preserve classes with `@kotlin.Metadata`
    annotations
  - Switch cc_test implementation to Starlark. Note: cc_test will now
    link statically when _targeting_ Windows regardless of host
    platform (rather than always linking statically when Windows is
    the _host_).
  - Switch cc_test implementation to Starlark. Note: cc_test will now
    link statically when _targeting_ Windows regardless of host
    platform (rather than always linking statically when Windows is
    the _host_).
  - Add devtools/build/lib/worker:work_request_handlers to the remote
    android tools release package. This will be transitively packaged
    into all_android_tools.
  - Bazel uses the D8 jar from Maven instead of the SDK.
  - android_sdk_repository read $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT in addition to
    $ANDROID_HOME.
  - Advance android_tools_pkg version to 0.24.0.
  - Switch cc_test implementation to Starlark. Note: cc_test will now
    link statically when _targeting_ Windows regardless of host
    platform (rather
    than always linking statically when Windows is the _host_).
  - Bazel uses the D8 jar from Maven instead of the SDK.
  - "blaze config" now only reports info from the last build. To
    compare configurations across multiple builds, redirect "blaze
    config" output to a file and run your favorite diff tool.
  - The --incompatible_override_toolchain_transition flag is now
    always set, and will be removed in the future. Thus,
    --noincompatible_override_toolchain_transition has no effect, and
    the value of the incompatible_use_toolchain_transition parameter
    in aspect() and rule() builtins is ignored.
  - Switch cc_test implementation to Starlark. Note: cc_test will now
    link statically when _targeting_ Windows regardless of host
    platform (rather
    than always linking statically when Windows is the _host_).
  - Toolchain types may now be optional, in addition to mandatory.
    See https://bazel.build/docs/toolchains#optional-toolchains for
    further details.
  - Add six to deps of has_services=1 py_proto_librarys.
  - pkg_tar(symlinks) has been removed. Users needing that feature
    should
    migrate to @rules_pkg.
  - Aspects can now define and use exec groups using the same API as
    rules.
  - Removed the obsolete --incompatible_applicable_licenses flag. The
    feature is permanently enabled.
  - embedded_tools packages R8 desugarer again
  - Bazel now selects sh path based on execution platform instead of
    host platform, making it possible to execute sh actions in
    multiplatform builds. --shell_executable now only applies to
    actions configured for host.
  - labels in genquery.scope are no longer configured.
  - When Bzlmod is enabled, all Bzlmod-generated repos will have an
    extra '@' prepended to their names. This effectively enables the
    canonical label literal syntax for Bzlmod-generated repos
    (`@@canonicalRepoName//pkg:target`; see
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N81qfCa8oskCk5LqTW-LNthy6EBrDo
    t7bdUsjz6JFC4/edit?usp=sharing).
  - Exposed `CcSharedLibraryInfo` to Starlark builtins.
  - Enable --use_top_level_targets_for_symlinks by default.
  - Singlejar accepts runtime Created-By field
  - --noincompatible_disable_managed_directories, and with that,
    workspace(managed_directories=) is not supported anymore.
  - Bazel supports D8 desugaring, albeit without persistent workers
  - Remove mtime options from pkg_tar. Users should migrate to
    @rules_pkg.
  - Test for experimental multiplexed persistent resource processor.
  - Added new register_{execution_platforms,toolchains} directives to
    the MODULE.bazel file, to replace the
    {execution_platforms,toolchains}_to_register attributes on the
    module() directive.
  - The legacy pkg_tar no longer supports the ability to untar and
    repackage an input tar file (`deps` attribute). Users needed that
    capability must switch to github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg.
  - `cquery`'s new output mode
    [`--output=files`](https://bazel.build/docs/cquery#files-output)
    lists the output files of the targets matching the query. It
    takes the current value of `--output_groups` into account.
  - Change singlejar metadata to report Created-By Bazel
  - Add support for fetching RPC credentials from credential helper.
  - Revert interface_deps back to implementation_deps after problem
    reported in. Use `buildozer 'rename deps implementation_deps'
    //...:%cc_library; buildozer 'rename interface_deps deps'
    //...:%cc_library`
  - Fix for desugaring failure on Bazel+Android+Windows build
    scenario.
  - D8 is the default desugarer
  - Migrate main_dex_list_creator to D8 (DX deprecation)
  - --experimental_enable_bzlmod has been renamed --enable_bzlmod,
    and still defaults to false.
  - selects() no longer produce irrelevant duplicate label checks
  - Adds a dexer output cache to CompatDexBuilder to improve build
    speed.
  - Improved error messages when analyzing inline bzl code
  - Improved error messages when analyzing inline bzl code
  - The `@bazel_tools//tools/cpp:compiler` flag now has the value
    `gcc` if the configured compiler is detected to be gcc rather
    than the generic value `compiler`. A branch for `gcc` may have to
    be added to `select` statements that do not have a default case
    that handles gcc appropriately.
  - The `get_child` method of `path` now accepts an arbitrary
    number of relative path strings as positional arguments.
  - SourceManifestAction supports `Action.content`
  - Add --incompatible_build_transitive_python_runfiles alias. See
    #16303
  - The @bazel_tools//tools/cpp:compiler flag now has the value
    `clang` for the auto-configured Xcode toolchain rather than the
    generic value compiler. A branch for `clang` may have to be added
    to select statements that do not have a default case that handles
    this toolchain appropriately.
  - added additional debug message to warn of skipped toolchains
    during resolution
  - The deprecated --remote_allow_symlink_upload flag has been
    removed. Symlinks in local action outputs are always permitted,
    even with remote caching. Whether they're uploaded as symlinks or
    as the files/directories they point to is still determined by the
    --incompatible_remote_symlinks flag.
  - Added `struct`, `json`, `proto`, and `depset` to the starlark
    environment of Bazel's cquery (--output=starlark) command
  - Added three `package_group`-related flags:
    `--incompatible_package_group_includes_double_slash` (#16391),
    `--incompatible_package_group_has_public_syntax` (#16355), and
    `--incompatible_fix_package_group_reporoot_syntax` (#16323). With
    these flags, `package_group` can now easily specify "all
    packages", "no packages", and "all packages in the current repo".
  - Record hermetic packaged JDK modules file size in deploy JAR
    manifest 'JDK-Lib-Modules-Size' attribute.
  - .bzl files may now set a visibility to guard what other .bzl and
    BUILD files may load them. See [...] for more information.
  - Deletes the --extra_proguard_specs Blaze flag
  - The new path variable `$(rlocationpath ...)` and its plural form
    `$(rlocationpaths ...)` can be used to expand labels to the paths
    accepted by the `Rlocation` function of runfiles libraries. This
    is the preferred way to access data dependencies at runtime and
    works on all platforms, even when runfiles are not enabled (e.g.,
    on Windows by default).
  - Starlark `print()` statements are now emitted iff the line of
    code is executed. They are no longer replayed on subsequent
    invocations unless the Starlark code is re-executed.
    Additionally, multiple identical `print()` statements (same
    string from the same line of code, e.g. from a loop) are all
    emitted and no longer deduplicated.
  - Fixes a bug where some compilation flags would not be applied to
    a cc_test
  - removed outdated ctx.host_fragments
  - removed outdated ctx.host_configuration
  - Now that the host configuration is finished, `genrule` should
    prefer the use of `tools` and stop using `exec_tools`.
  - Added a `native.package_relative_label()` function, which
    converts a label string to a Label object in the context of the
    calling package, in contrast to `Label()`, which does so in the
    context of the current .bzl file. Both functions now also accept
    relative labels such as `:foo`, and are idempotent.
  - Update Android manifest merger to v30.1.3, and also drop support
    for legacy (pre-D8) desugaring.
  - Adds coverage metric support to android_local_test
  - Correctly encode double value positive infinity as "inf" instead
    of "+inf" for textprotos.
  - Add --use_target_platform_for_tests which uses the target
    platform for executing tests instead of the execution platform.
  - Custom C++ rules on Windows calling
    cc_common.create_linking_context_from_compilation_outputs should
    review whether each target of the rule type should produce a
    dynamic library since a condition which blocked their creation
    has been moved to the rules from behind the API.
  - Add flag `--experimental_remote_cache_ttl` and set the default
    value to 3 hours.
  - making --incompatible_use_platforms_repo_for_constraints do
    nothing. Using constraints from @bazel_tools//platforms with or
    without the flag will throw error with message "Constraints from
    @bazel_tools//platforms have been removed. Please use constraints
    from @platforms repository embedded in Bazel, or preferably
    declare dependency on https://github.com/bazelbuild/platforms"
  - Fixed an issue where WORKSPACE and WORKSPACE-loaded .bzl files
    couldn't see the Bzlmod root module's mappings when Bzlmod is
    enabled.
  - Subsequent settings of --extra_execution_platforms now override
    previous settings, instead of adding them to a list. If you
    currently set --extra_execution_platforms more than once, please
    migrate by passing a list of values to
    --extra_execution_platforms instead so that earlier values aren't
    overwritten.
  - @bazel_tools//config:common_settings.bzl has been removed.
    Use @bazel_skylib//rules:common_settings.bzl instead.
  - cc_shared_library is no longer experimental, see
    #16709 for details
  - The flag `--distinct_host_configuration` is removed. It has been
    a no-op since Bazel 6.0.0.
  - Added `native.module_name()` and `native.module_version()` to
    allow BUILD macro authors to acquire information about which
    Bazel module the current repo is associated with.
  - Add `--skip_incompatible_explicit_targets` option
  - Remove 'darwin' as a CPU value, use 'darwin_x86_64' instead
  - cc_test can now be configured by using a native.toolchain().
  - `@foo` labels can now be used on the command line as the
    top-level target (that is, `bazel build @foo` now works).
    Double-dot syntax is now forbidden (`bazel build ../foo` will no
    longer work).
  - The location of rules that explicitly specify `generator_name`
    and/or `generator_function` attributes (typically because they
    are incidentally copied from `native.existing_rule()`) is now the
    top-level call in the `BUILD` file, which is consistent with
    rules that do not explicitly specify these attributes.
  - Warnings (most notably those associated with the `deprecation`
    rule attribute) are no longer replayed on subsequent invocations
    unless the target in question is re-analyzed. Warnings are purely
    informational, so this change has no bearing on the correctness
    of the build. Downstream tests that break due to this change
    should update their expectations.
  - `--experimental_remote_build_event_upload` has been renamed to
    `--remote_build_event_upload`
  - [Breaking change] platform, constraint_setting, and
    constraint_value can no longer take an applicable_licenses value.
    Remediation is to remove the attribute and rely on the package
    level default.
  - `--experimental_action_cache_store_output_metadata` has been
    renamed to `--action_cache_store_output_metadata`
  - Changed the default value for `--remote_build_event_upload` to
    `minimal`.
  - `--experimental_remote_cache_compression` has been renamed to
    `--remote_cache_compression`
  - The REPO.bazel and MODULE.bazel files are now also considered
    workspace boundary markers.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Azarchs, Adam Lavin, Adam Liddell, Adam Singer, Adam Wolf, Albert Lloveras, Alessandro Patti, Alex Eagle, Alex Eagle, Alex Eagle, Alex Scott, AlexTereshenkov, Alex Torok, Amanda L Martin, Andreas Fuchs, Andreas Herrmann, Andreas Herrmann, Andrew Katson, Andrew Klotz, Andy Hamon, Ankush Goyal, Anthony Pratti, Anthony Ter-Saakov, Ara Nguyen, Artem V. Navrotskiy, Artem Zinnatullin, arunkumar9t2, arun.sampathkumar, aryeh, Ast-x64, Austin Schuh, Benedek Thaler, Benjamin Lee, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Sigonneau, Ben Lee, Bohdan Vanieiev, Bo Zhang, Bo Zhang, Bradley Burns, Brandon Duffany, Brandon Jacklyn, Brentley Jones, Brentley Jones, bromano, Cameron Mulhern, Chad Miller, Charles-Francois Natali, Chirag Ramani, Chris Clearwater, Chris Fredrickson, Christopher Peterson Sauer, Christopher Rydell, Christopher Sauer, ckiffel, Cristian Hancila, crydell-ericsson, Dan Bamikiya, Dan Fleming, Daniel Grunwald, Daniel KT, Daniel McCarney, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Danny Wolf, Dave MacLachlan, Dave Nicponski, David Cummings, David, David Ostrovsky, David Sanderson, Delwin9999, Denys Kurylenko, dhmemi, Dimi Shahbaz, divanorama, dmaclach, Dmitry Ivankov, dorranh, ecngtng, Ed Schouten, Eitan Adler, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Emil Kattainen, erenon, Eric Cousineau, Eric Song, Eric Wendelin, Ethan Steinberg, Ezekiel Warren, Fabian Brandstetter, Fabian Meumertzheim, Fabian Meumertzheim, FaBrand, Fahrzin Hemmati, Fahrzin Hemmati, Felix Ehrenpfort, Finn Ball, floriographygoth, frazze-jobb, Fredrik Medley, Garrett Holmstrom, Gaspare Vitta, Gautam Korlam, George Gensure, George Prekas, gkgoat1, gkorlam, goodspark, Greg Estren, Greg, Greg Magolan, Gregory Fong, Greg Roodt, Grzegorz Lukasik, Grzegorz Lukasik, Halil Sener, Halil Sener, Hannes Kufler, Hao Yuan, homuler, hvadehra, hvd, Igor Nazarenko, Ikko Ashimine, Jack Dai, James Broadhead, James Ma, Jan, Jason Tan, Jay Bazuzi, Jeremy Volkman, Jesse Chan, jheaff1, Jiawen Chen, Joe Lencioni, Joel Jeske, Joel Williamson, Johannes Abt, John Hinnegan, John Laxson, John Laxson, John Millikin, Jonathan Gerrish, Jonathan Schear, Jon Landis, Jon Parise, jonrose-dev, Jon Shea, Jordan, juanchoviedo, Julio Merino, Justus Tumacder, Kaiqin Chen, keertk, Keith Smiley, kekxv, Ken Micklas, Kevin Hogeland, Kevin Lin, Kirill Zabelin, Kiron, Konstantin Erman, Krishna Ersson, Krzysztof Naglik, kshyanashree, Kun-Lu, Lauri Peltonen, Lee Mracek, lihu, Liu Liu, lripoche, Lszl Csomor, Luc Bertrand, Luis Fernando Pino Duque, m, Malte Poll, Marc Zych, Marc Zych, Marek uppa, Mark Karpov, Masoud Koleini, Mathieu Olivari, Matt Clarkson, Matt Mackay, Mauricio Galindo, Max Liu, Maxwell Elliott, Menny Even Danan, menny, Michael Chinen, Michael P. Nitowski, Mikhail Balabin, mohamadk, Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Nathaniel Brough, nathyong, Nick Korostelev, Niek Peeters, Nikolay Shelukhin, Nitesh Anandan, Niyas Sait, Noa Resare, odisseus, Oleh Stolyar, Olek Wojnar, Oliver Lee, Olle Lundberg, Omar Zuniga, Oscar Bonilla, Patrick Balestra, Patrick Balestra, Paul Gschwendtner, Paul Tarjan, Peter Kasting, Peter Mounce, Philipp Schrader, Pras Velagapudi, Qais Patankar, Rabi Shanker Guha, Rahul Butani, Rai, Rajeshwar Reddy T, Red Daly, redwrasse, Rifqi Mulya Fahmi, robincaloudis, Robin Tweedie, Roger Hu, Roman Salvador, ron-stripe, rustberry, Ryan Beasley, Ryan Schmidt, Sagar Pathare, Sahin Yort, Saleem Abdulrasool, samhowes, Samuel Giddins, Sara Adams, Sascha Moecker, Sebastian Olsson, Sergey Tyurin, Severin Strobl, Shuai Zhang, Siddhesh Bhupendra Kuakde, Simon Bjorklen, Simon Mavi Stewart, something_vague, Son Luong Ngoc, Stephan Wolski, Steve Siano, steve-the-bayesian, Steve Vermeulen, Stiopa Koltsov, susinmotion, Sven Tiffe, Takeo Sawada, Tao Wang, tatiana, tbaing, Ted Kaplan, Ted Kaplan, Tetsuo Kiso, Thaler Benedek, Thi Doan, Thi Doan, Thi Don, Thomas Carmet, Thomas Chen, ThomasCJY, Thomas, Thomas Zayouna, Thulio Ferraz Assis, Timothe Peignier, Timothy Klim, Tobi, Tomas Volf, Tom Cnops, Tom de Goede, Torgil Svensson, Trustin Lee, Ulf Adams, Ulf Adams, Ulrik Falklof, Uri Baghin, Vaidas Pilkauskas, vardaro, Vasilios Pantazopoulos, Vertexwahn, Vladimir Tagakov, Waleed Khan, William Muir, wisechengyi, Wren Turkal, Xavier Bonaventura, Xdng Yng, Xiangquan Xiao, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic, Yannic, Yesudeep Mangalapilly, Yi Cheng, Yury Evtikhov, Yuval Kaplan, Yuval K, Yuval, yuzhy8701, Zhongpeng Lin, [zqzzq].
fweikert pushed a commit to fweikert/bazel that referenced this issue May 25, 2023
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Release 7.0.0-pre.20230417.1 (2023-04-25)
e5e597f 
Baseline: 0a47a1f

Incompatible changes:

  - Removing java_common.javac_jar Starlark call.
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change
    because there is some code that relies on the precise type
    returned, including brittle workarounds for this bug specifically
    and insufficiently flexible workarounds for other issues with the
    intersection of select and native.existing_rule.
  - flipped incompatible_use_toolchain_resolution_for_java_rules, see
    bazelbuild#7849
  - Query output=xml/proto/location for source files will now show
    the location of line 1 of the source file (as the new default)
    instead of its location in the BUILD file.
  - Specifying a target pattern underneath a directory specified by
    .bazelignore will now emit a warning, not an error.
  - Query `--order_output=auto` will now sort lexicographically.
    However, when `somepath` is used as a top level function (e.g.
    `query 'somepath(a, b)'`), it will continue to output in
    dependency order. If you do not want the lexicographical output
    ordering, specify another `--order_output` value (`no`, `deps` or
    `full`) based on what ordering you require.
  - In the build event stream,
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_loaded is no longer populated.
    Its value was always mostly meaningless.
    BuildMetrics.TargetMetrics.targets_configured and
    BuildMetrics.ActionSummary.actions_created now include configured
    aspect data.
  - //visibility:legacy_public has been removed.
  - Flip and remove incompatible_dont_collect_so_artifacts
    (bazelbuild#13043).
  - Remove flag --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink: it is
    always true.
  - The Starlark method generate_dsym in objc fragment has
    been deleted.  Please use the equivalent apple_generate_dsym in
    cpp
    fragment instead.
  - Native libraries in data attribute are not collected. See
    bazelbuild#13550 for details
  - Enforce the `--profile` path to be absolute.
  - Enforce the --memory_profile path to be absolute.
  - JavaToolchainInfo.jvm_opt returns Depset instead of a list.
  - --apple_sdk has been deleted.  It is a no-op.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is now a no-op and will
    be deleted in a future release. Use --memory_profile=/dev/null
    instead.
  - Flipped --incompatible_disallow_resource_jars (see
    bazelbuild#13221).
  - Remove --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build
  - JSON trace profile: rename counter names.
  - Removed --action_graph from the dump command.
  - Remove `--{experimental_,}json_trace_compression` option.
  - Remove `--experimental_profile_cpu_usage`.
  - flipped --incompatible_java_common_parameters (see bazelbuild#12373)
  - this incompatible change breaks old instances of http_archive
    that specified netrc as an absolute path. It is unlikely there
    are many instances in the wild since the path would refer to a
    netrc file inside the external repository by absolute path.
    Migration should be straightforward.
  - genrule switched to use exec transition instead of host. This can
    break targets with hardcoded output paths. To avoid using
    hardcoded paths use make variables, see
    https://docs.bazel.build/versions/4.2.2/be/make-variables.html#pre
    defined_label_variables
  - this incompatible change breaks old instances of http_archive
    that specified netrc as an absolute path. It is unlikely there
    are many instances in the wild since...
  - Error Prone now checks for unused return values of additional
    methods on `java.lang.Object`, which can be disabled using
    `--javacopts=-Xep:ReturnValueIgnored:OFF`
  - Error Prone now checks for unused return values of additional
    methods on `java.lang.Object`, which can be disabled using
    `--javacopts=-Xep:ReturnValueIgnored:OFF`
  - The --incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view flag has been
    flipped to true. See
    bazelbuild#13907 for
    migration notes.
  - Split up the C++ archive from the C++ link action and set
    `CppArchive` as mnemonic.
  - workspace(managed_directories=) is not available anymore.
  - --legacy_important_outputs now has a default of false.
  - --legacy_important_outputs default reverted to true.
  - objc_library now requires CcInfo in its deps.  If this breaks
    you, add empty CcInfo() to your rule.
  - Flag --experimental_local_memory_estimate removed.
  - Added a new flag
    --incompatible_unambiguous_label_stringification, which causes
    labels in the main repo to stringify into unambiguous forms
    starting with an @. See
    bazelbuild#15916 for more
    information.
  - analysis_test moved into testing.analysis_test
  - Flip incompatible_enable_cc_toolchain_resolution
    (bazelbuild#7260)
  - (Rollback) Flip incompatible_enable_cc_toolchain_resolution
    (bazelbuild#7260)
  - name parameter is removed from rule call
    (bazelbuild#16301)
  - name parameter is removed from rule call
    (bazelbuild#16301)
  - name parameter is removed from rule call
    (bazelbuild#16301)
  - --incompatible_remote_downloader_send_all_headers is flipped to
    true. See bazelbuild#16356 for details.
  - GrpcRemoteDownloader only includes relevant headers instead of
    sending all credentials.
  - In package_group's `packages` attribute, the syntax "//..." now
    refers to all packages in the same repository as the package
    group, rather than all packages everywhere. The new item "public"
    can be used instead to obtain the old behavior. In `bazel query
    --output=proto` (and `--output=xml`), the `packages` attribute
    now serializes with the leading double slash included (for
    instance, `//foo/bar/...` instead of `foo/bar/...`). See also
    bazelbuild#16355, bazelbuild#16323, and bazelbuild#16391.
  - This has the side effect of changing the message on unsuccessful
    builds from
    ```
    FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)
    ```
    to
    ```
    ERROR: Build did NOT complete successfully
    ```
  - Bazel no longer increases the delay between progress updates when
    there is no cursor control.
  - This has the side effect of changing the message on unsuccessful
    builds from
    ```
    FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)
    ```
    to
    ```
    ERROR: Build did NOT complete successfully
    ```
  - the --experimental_async_execution flag is now a no-op.
  - --experimental_replay_action_out_err is not a no-op.
  - `cquery --output=files` also outputs source files.
  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
    bazelbuild#16729 for details.
  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
    bazelbuild#16729 for details.
  - `--incompatible_always_include_files_in_data` is flipped to true.
    See bazelbuild#16654 for details.
  - This changes the behavior of Python version in exec/host
    configuration. Mitigation is to set Python version on the targets.
  - When multiple --deleted_packages options are passed on the
    command line, they will be concatenated instead of the latest one
    taking effect.
  - This has the side effect of changing the message on unsuccessful
    builds from
  - JSON profile: Use doubles instead of strings for counter series.
  - query --output=proto --order_output=deps now returns targets in
    topological order (previously there was no ordering).
  - --experimental_build_transitive_python_runfiles is flipped to
    false. See bazelbuild#16303 for details
  - --incompatible_python_disable_py2 is flipped to true. See bazelbuild#17293
    for details.
  - When remote cache evicts blobs, Bazel will exit with code 39.
  - `--features` only applies to targets built in the target
    configuration, and `--host_features` is used for the host / exec
    configuration (gated behind `--incompatible_use_host_features`)
  - `--incompatible_strict_conflict_checks` is flipped to true. See
    bazelbuild#16729 for details.
  - Bazel's local CPU resource on Linux is now container aware. Use
    `--local_cpu_resources`, `--loading_phase_threads` or `--jobs` to
    override.
  - `copy_from_rule` is exec_groups is deprecated
    (bazelbuild#17668).
  - --legacy_bazel_java_test is now a no-op
  - --legacy_bazel_java_test is now a no-op
  - --legacy_bazel_java_test is now a no-op
  - `--experimental_execution_graph_log` no longer exists. Current
    users that want local logs need to pass
    `--experimental_enable_execution_graph_log
    --experimental_execution_graph_log_path=/some/local/path`.
    Current users that want logs uploaded to BEP need to pass
    `--experimental_enable_execution_graph_log
    --experimental_stream_log_file_uploads`.
  - Remove 'darwin' as a CPU value, use 'darwin_x86_64' instead
  - Remove high priority workers functionality from blaze.

New features:

  - Args.add_all and Args.add_joined can now accept closures in
    map_each if explicitly enabled via allow_closure.
  - Add `--bes_header` flag to pass extra headers to the BES server.
  - Support local_repository in Bazel Registry's source.json file
  - The `aquery` and `cquery` commands now respect the
    `--query_file` flag just like the `query` command.

Important changes:

  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    bazelbuild#10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    bazelbuild#10854.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_compile_info_migration is removed.  See
    bazelbuild#10854.
  - none
    PAIR=cmita
  - The --incompatible_load_python_rules_from_bzl flag is now a no-op.
  - Filter all (instead of just C++) source files for coverage output
    according to --instrumentation_filter and
    --instrument_test_targets.
  - The `--incompatible_disable_native_apple_binary_rule` flag has
    been added which disables the native `apple_binary` rule. Users
    who need to use `apple_binary` directly (if they cannot use one
    of the more specific Apple rules) should load it from
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple.
  - The Android rules' --use_singlejar_apkbuilder is now a no-op.
    SingleJar will always be used to build APKs.
  - dict.setdefault(key, ...) now fails if dict is frozen, even if it
    already contains key. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Flag --incompatible_objc_provider_remove_compile_info is removed.
     See bazelbuild#11359.
  - Starlark now permits def statements to be nested (closures).
  - native.existing_rule now returns select values in a form that is
    accepted by rule instantiation. This is a breaking API change,
    though the fallout is expected to be small.
  - Starlark now supports lambda (anonymous function) expressions.
  - The "test" and "coverage" commands no longer return 3 when a
    test action fails because of a system error. Instead, the exit
    code
    reflects the type of system error.
  - The undocumented ctx.expand feature no longer exists.
  - Make --legacy_dynamic_scheduler a no-op flag.
  - Multiplex persistent workers can now use the JSON protocol.
  - native.existing_rule now returns a mutable list, not a tuple, for
    a list-valued attributes. This is an incompatible API change.
  - Roll back change to have native.existing_rules use list instead
    of tuple.
  - BEP includes test suite expansions.
  - config_setting now honors `visibility` attribute (and defaults to
    `//visibility:public`)
  - Change the MultiArchSplitTransitionProvider to be based on
    platform type + CPU instead of fixed "ios_" + cpu.
  - enforce config_setting visibility. See
    bazelbuild#12932 for details.
  - add a flag to build v4 signature file
  - Added _direct_source_jars output group to Java related targets.
    END_PUBLIC
  - pkg_deb is no longer part of @bazel_tools//build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl.
    Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/tree/main/pkg instead
  - Allowing the lipo operations to be conditional in the
    linkMultiArchBinary API for Apple binaries. Single architecture
    slices are now returned through AppleBinaryOutput and the
    Starlark API.
  - Release restriction for "-" in the package name for Python
    sources. Now `py_binary` and `py_test` targets can have main
    source file with "-" in the path.
  - Users consuming BEP may assume that a `named_set_of_files` event
    will
    appear before any event referencing that `named_set` by ID. This
    allows consumers
    to process the files for such events (eg. `TargetCompleted`)
    immediately.
  - BEP includes all files from successful actions in requested
    output groups.
    Previously, an output group's files were excluded if any file in
    the output group
    was not produced due to a failing action. Users can expect BEP
    output to be larger
    for failed builds.
  - In BEP, TargetComplete.output_group has a new field `incomplete`
    indicating that the file_sets field is missing one or more
    declared artifacts
    whose generating actions failed.
  - The flag `--toolchain_resolution_debug` now takes a regex
    argument, which is used to check which toolchain types should
    have debug info printed. You may use `.*` as an argument to keep
    the current behavior of debugging every toolchain type.
  - Add runfiles.merge_all() for merging a sequence of runfiles
    objects.
  - runfiles.merge() and merge_all() now respect
    --nested_set_depth_limit.
    If you hit the depth limit because you were calling merge() in a
    loop, use
    merge_all() on a sequence of runfiles objects instead.
  - Bazel will no longer create a bazel-out symlink if
    --symlink_prefix is specified: the directory pointed to via the
    bazel-out symlink is accessible via ${symlink_prefix}-out. If
    this causes problems for you, set
    --experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink=false in your builds
    and file an issue.
  - Updates worker protocol with cancellation fields, and adds
    experimental_worker_cancellation flag to control cancellation.
  - Simplify build failure output by always using `NNN arguments`.
  - trim_test_configuration now defaults to on
  - Mark genrule.srcs as a source attribute for coverage.
  - When using --allow_analysis_failures (for example, via
    bazel-skylib's
    analysistest with `expect_failure = True`), analysis-time
    failures in aspect
    implementation functions will now be propagated and saved in
    AnalysisFailureInfo, just like analysis-time failures in rules.
  - cquery --noimplicit_deps now correctly filters out resolved
    cc_toolchains
  - Sign apks deterministically.
  - Make gcov optional in cc_toolchain tools.
  - If --experimental_prefer_mutual_xcode is passed, Bazel will
    choose the local default (instead of the newest mutually
    available version) if it's available both locally and remotely.
  - Remove java_lite_proto_library.strict_deps attribute.
  - Generate proguard configurations deterministically.
  - Adds a new flag, `--incompatible_enable_cc_test_feature` which
    switches from the use of build variables to the feature of the
    same name.
  - Dropped fragile xz support from built in pkg_tar. Users requiring
    xz
    compression should switch to bazlebuild/rules_pkg.
  - If all strategies of one branch (the local or remote execution
    branch) of the `dynamic` strategy fail to even accept (via the
    response they give from `canExec`) the action, `dynamic` will now
    try to see if the other branch can accept it. (Trying to run it
    and it failing will still cause a failure if it was the first
    result, this is about strategies claiming they can't even try the
    action)
  - Add `disable_annotation_processing` option to
    `java_common.compile`, which disables any annotation processors
    passed to `plugins` or in `exported_plugins` of `deps`
  - Remove obsolete --incompatible_prohibit_aapt1
  - The minimum Android build tools version for the Android rules is
    now 30.0.0
  - Adds --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories flag to reuse
    already-created non-worker sandboxes with cleanup.
  - --experimental_force_gc_after_build is deprecated and will be
    removed soon. Use --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build instead
  - Forward coverage-instrumented files from non-tool dependencies by
    default.
  - The used_heap_size_post_build field in BEP is populated when the
    --memory_profile flag is set
  - --run_validations defaults to true.
  - Consider label_keyed_string_dict attributes when gathering
    instrumented files for coverage.
  - Remove flag
    --experimental_forward_instrumented_files_info_by_default, now
    that this behavior is the default.
  - When using MemoryProfiler with multiple GCs via the
    --memory_profile_stable_heap_parameters flag, we do a more
    precise calculation of heap used at the end of the build. This
    will generally result in lower values.
  - --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build is deprecated. Use
    --memory_profile=/dev/null instead.
  - Disable --all_incompatible_changes flag.
  - The --all_incompatible_changes flag is now a no-op
  - The `--toolchain_resolution_debug` flag now accepts regexes
    matching targets, as well as toolchain types, when choosing what
    debug messages to print.
  - Adds --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag to make the
    native.existing_rule and native.existing_rules functions more
    efficient by
    returning immutable, lightweight dict-like view objects instead
    of mutable
    dicts.
  - Add support to length-delimited protos as undeclared output
    annotations []
  - The deprecated "relative_to_caller_repository" parameter has been
    removed from the Label constructor.
  - The toolchain transition is now enabled for all toolchains.
  - incompatible_disable_depset_items is flipped
  - The --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag has been
    renamed to  --incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view
  - Bazel no longer supports Java 8. From this version on, the
    minimum required JDK is OpenJDK 11.
  - Deprecate --incompatible_applicable_licenses flag, in preparation
    for removal in Bazel 6.x.
  - Treat py_*.srcs_version="PY2" the same as "PY2ONLY".
  - The Build Event Protocol now contains file digests and sizes
    along with the file name and URI.
  - Refactor system suspend event handling.
  - alias() can now select() directly on constraint_value()
  - Allow \a \b \f \v escape sequences in Starlark.
  - Match remote and local xcode version by most granular version.
  - Adds `--experimental_worker_multiplex_sandboxing` flag that
    controls whether to sandbox multiplex workers that support it.
  - provider() has a new parameter: init, a callback for performing
    pre-processing and validation of field values. Iff this parameter
    is set,
    provider() returns a tuple of 2 elements: the usual provider
    symbol (which,
    when called, invokes init) and a raw constructor (which bypasses
    init).
  - Tests that fail to create or complete their
    `TestAttemptContinuation` by
    throwing an `ExecException` will report an `INCOMPLETE` status.
    Previously, Bazel
    would fail to report any status for the test attempt.
  - Fixed an issue where Bazel could erroneously report a test passes
    in coverage mode without actually running the test.
  - Include more information about configurations in cquery proto
    formatted output. This deprecates the configuration field of
    AnalysisProtosV2.ConfiguredTarget, and adds a new field,
    configuration_id, to
    be used instead.
  - experimental cc_library.implementation_deps inverted to
    interface_deps
  - In aquery and cquery proto output, indicate if a configuration is
    a
    tool or non-tool configuration.
  - Include complete configurations in cquery proto output.
  - experimental cc_library.implementation_deps inverted to
    interface_deps
  - Make protocOpts() publicly accessible.
  - Add some documentation about how configuration information is
    conveyed in cquery proto output.
  - Introduces experimental static library linking API under
    apple_common.link_multi_arch_static_library
  - Further deprecation and removal of pkg_tar. Stop supporting
    legacy use of 'files' attribute, where it could be a list of
    labels instead of a map of paths to labels.
  - Removed --incompatible_no_build_defs_pkg flag. It never fulfilled
    its purpose because --all_incompatible_changes would never set
    it. The last rule it gated (pkg_tar) is scheduled to be removed
    in Bazel 6.x.
  - Add coverage configuration fragment, used to expose
    output_generator label.
  - Bazel now no longer includes system headers on macOS in coverage
    reports (bazelbuild#14969).
  - android_sdk_repository read $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT in addition to
    $ANDROID_HOME.
  - The default dexer is now d8. dx can be optionally enabled using:
      --define=android_dexmerger_tool=dx_dexmerger \
      --define=android_incremental_dexing_tool=dx_dexbuilder \
      --define=android_standalone_dexing_tool=dx_compat_dx \
      --use_workers_with_dexbuilder
  - Packaging support for deploy JAR embedded JDK files (hermetic
    Java).
  - Don't stamp cc_common.link actions for tool dependencies.
  - Starlark test rules can use the new inherited_environment
    parameter of testing.TestEnvironment to specify environment
    variables
    whose values should be inherited from the shell environment.
  - Enable merging permissions during Android manifest merging with
    the --merge_android_manifest_permissions flag.
  - Allow specialization to work with constraint_values.
  - Bazel uses the D8 jar from Maven instead of the SDK.
  - Make ijar / java_import preserve classes with `@kotlin.Metadata`
    annotations
  - Switch cc_test implementation to Starlark. Note: cc_test will now
    link statically when _targeting_ Windows regardless of host
    platform (rather than always linking statically when Windows is
    the _host_).
  - Switch cc_test implementation to Starlark. Note: cc_test will now
    link statically when _targeting_ Windows regardless of host
    platform (rather than always linking statically when Windows is
    the _host_).
  - Add devtools/build/lib/worker:work_request_handlers to the remote
    android tools release package. This will be transitively packaged
    into all_android_tools.
  - Bazel uses the D8 jar from Maven instead of the SDK.
  - android_sdk_repository read $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT in addition to
    $ANDROID_HOME.
  - Advance android_tools_pkg version to 0.24.0.
  - Switch cc_test implementation to Starlark. Note: cc_test will now
    link statically when _targeting_ Windows regardless of host
    platform (rather
    than always linking statically when Windows is the _host_).
  - Bazel uses the D8 jar from Maven instead of the SDK.
  - "blaze config" now only reports info from the last build. To
    compare configurations across multiple builds, redirect "blaze
    config" output to a file and run your favorite diff tool.
  - The --incompatible_override_toolchain_transition flag is now
    always set, and will be removed in the future. Thus,
    --noincompatible_override_toolchain_transition has no effect, and
    the value of the incompatible_use_toolchain_transition parameter
    in aspect() and rule() builtins is ignored.
  - Switch cc_test implementation to Starlark. Note: cc_test will now
    link statically when _targeting_ Windows regardless of host
    platform (rather
    than always linking statically when Windows is the _host_).
  - Toolchain types may now be optional, in addition to mandatory.
    See https://bazel.build/docs/toolchains#optional-toolchains for
    further details.
  - Add six to deps of has_services=1 py_proto_librarys.
  - pkg_tar(symlinks) has been removed. Users needing that feature
    should
    migrate to @rules_pkg.
  - Aspects can now define and use exec groups using the same API as
    rules.
  - Removed the obsolete --incompatible_applicable_licenses flag. The
    feature is permanently enabled.
  - embedded_tools packages R8 desugarer again
  - Bazel now selects sh path based on execution platform instead of
    host platform, making it possible to execute sh actions in
    multiplatform builds. --shell_executable now only applies to
    actions configured for host.
  - labels in genquery.scope are no longer configured.
  - When Bzlmod is enabled, all Bzlmod-generated repos will have an
    extra '@' prepended to their names. This effectively enables the
    canonical label literal syntax for Bzlmod-generated repos
    (`@@canonicalRepoName//pkg:target`; see
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N81qfCa8oskCk5LqTW-LNthy6EBrDo
    t7bdUsjz6JFC4/edit?usp=sharing).
  - Exposed `CcSharedLibraryInfo` to Starlark builtins.
  - Enable --use_top_level_targets_for_symlinks by default.
  - Singlejar accepts runtime Created-By field
  - --noincompatible_disable_managed_directories, and with that,
    workspace(managed_directories=) is not supported anymore.
  - Bazel supports D8 desugaring, albeit without persistent workers
  - Remove mtime options from pkg_tar. Users should migrate to
    @rules_pkg.
  - Test for experimental multiplexed persistent resource processor.
  - Added new register_{execution_platforms,toolchains} directives to
    the MODULE.bazel file, to replace the
    {execution_platforms,toolchains}_to_register attributes on the
    module() directive.
  - The legacy pkg_tar no longer supports the ability to untar and
    repackage an input tar file (`deps` attribute). Users needed that
    capability must switch to github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg.
  - `cquery`'s new output mode
    [`--output=files`](https://bazel.build/docs/cquery#files-output)
    lists the output files of the targets matching the query. It
    takes the current value of `--output_groups` into account.
  - Change singlejar metadata to report Created-By Bazel
  - Add support for fetching RPC credentials from credential helper.
  - Revert interface_deps back to implementation_deps after problem
    reported in. Use `buildozer 'rename deps implementation_deps'
    //...:%cc_library; buildozer 'rename interface_deps deps'
    //...:%cc_library`
  - Fix for desugaring failure on Bazel+Android+Windows build
    scenario.
  - D8 is the default desugarer
  - Migrate main_dex_list_creator to D8 (DX deprecation)
  - --experimental_enable_bzlmod has been renamed --enable_bzlmod,
    and still defaults to false.
  - selects() no longer produce irrelevant duplicate label checks
  - Adds a dexer output cache to CompatDexBuilder to improve build
    speed.
  - Improved error messages when analyzing inline bzl code
  - Improved error messages when analyzing inline bzl code
  - The `@bazel_tools//tools/cpp:compiler` flag now has the value
    `gcc` if the configured compiler is detected to be gcc rather
    than the generic value `compiler`. A branch for `gcc` may have to
    be added to `select` statements that do not have a default case
    that handles gcc appropriately.
  - The `get_child` method of `path` now accepts an arbitrary
    number of relative path strings as positional arguments.
  - SourceManifestAction supports `Action.content`
  - Add --incompatible_build_transitive_python_runfiles alias. See
    bazelbuild#16303
  - The @bazel_tools//tools/cpp:compiler flag now has the value
    `clang` for the auto-configured Xcode toolchain rather than the
    generic value compiler. A branch for `clang` may have to be added
    to select statements that do not have a default case that handles
    this toolchain appropriately.
  - added additional debug message to warn of skipped toolchains
    during resolution
  - The deprecated --remote_allow_symlink_upload flag has been
    removed. Symlinks in local action outputs are always permitted,
    even with remote caching. Whether they're uploaded as symlinks or
    as the files/directories they point to is still determined by the
    --incompatible_remote_symlinks flag.
  - Added `struct`, `json`, `proto`, and `depset` to the starlark
    environment of Bazel's cquery (--output=starlark) command
  - Added three `package_group`-related flags:
    `--incompatible_package_group_includes_double_slash` (bazelbuild#16391),
    `--incompatible_package_group_has_public_syntax` (bazelbuild#16355), and
    `--incompatible_fix_package_group_reporoot_syntax` (bazelbuild#16323). With
    these flags, `package_group` can now easily specify "all
    packages", "no packages", and "all packages in the current repo".
  - Record hermetic packaged JDK modules file size in deploy JAR
    manifest 'JDK-Lib-Modules-Size' attribute.
  - .bzl files may now set a visibility to guard what other .bzl and
    BUILD files may load them. See [...] for more information.
  - Deletes the --extra_proguard_specs Blaze flag
  - The new path variable `$(rlocationpath ...)` and its plural form
    `$(rlocationpaths ...)` can be used to expand labels to the paths
    accepted by the `Rlocation` function of runfiles libraries. This
    is the preferred way to access data dependencies at runtime and
    works on all platforms, even when runfiles are not enabled (e.g.,
    on Windows by default).
  - Starlark `print()` statements are now emitted iff the line of
    code is executed. They are no longer replayed on subsequent
    invocations unless the Starlark code is re-executed.
    Additionally, multiple identical `print()` statements (same
    string from the same line of code, e.g. from a loop) are all
    emitted and no longer deduplicated.
  - Fixes a bug where some compilation flags would not be applied to
    a cc_test
  - removed outdated ctx.host_fragments
  - removed outdated ctx.host_configuration
  - Now that the host configuration is finished, `genrule` should
    prefer the use of `tools` and stop using `exec_tools`.
  - Added a `native.package_relative_label()` function, which
    converts a label string to a Label object in the context of the
    calling package, in contrast to `Label()`, which does so in the
    context of the current .bzl file. Both functions now also accept
    relative labels such as `:foo`, and are idempotent.
  - Update Android manifest merger to v30.1.3, and also drop support
    for legacy (pre-D8) desugaring.
  - Adds coverage metric support to android_local_test
  - Correctly encode double value positive infinity as "inf" instead
    of "+inf" for textprotos.
  - Add --use_target_platform_for_tests which uses the target
    platform for executing tests instead of the execution platform.
  - Custom C++ rules on Windows calling
    cc_common.create_linking_context_from_compilation_outputs should
    review whether each target of the rule type should produce a
    dynamic library since a condition which blocked their creation
    has been moved to the rules from behind the API.
  - Add flag `--experimental_remote_cache_ttl` and set the default
    value to 3 hours.
  - making --incompatible_use_platforms_repo_for_constraints do
    nothing. Using constraints from @bazel_tools//platforms with or
    without the flag will throw error with message "Constraints from
    @bazel_tools//platforms have been removed. Please use constraints
    from @platforms repository embedded in Bazel, or preferably
    declare dependency on https://github.com/bazelbuild/platforms"
  - Fixed an issue where WORKSPACE and WORKSPACE-loaded .bzl files
    couldn't see the Bzlmod root module's mappings when Bzlmod is
    enabled.
  - Subsequent settings of --extra_execution_platforms now override
    previous settings, instead of adding them to a list. If you
    currently set --extra_execution_platforms more than once, please
    migrate by passing a list of values to
    --extra_execution_platforms instead so that earlier values aren't
    overwritten.
  - @bazel_tools//config:common_settings.bzl has been removed.
    Use @bazel_skylib//rules:common_settings.bzl instead.
  - cc_shared_library is no longer experimental, see
    bazelbuild#16709 for details
  - The flag `--distinct_host_configuration` is removed. It has been
    a no-op since Bazel 6.0.0.
  - Added `native.module_name()` and `native.module_version()` to
    allow BUILD macro authors to acquire information about which
    Bazel module the current repo is associated with.
  - Add `--skip_incompatible_explicit_targets` option
  - Remove 'darwin' as a CPU value, use 'darwin_x86_64' instead
  - cc_test can now be configured by using a native.toolchain().
  - `@foo` labels can now be used on the command line as the
    top-level target (that is, `bazel build @foo` now works).
    Double-dot syntax is now forbidden (`bazel build ../foo` will no
    longer work).
  - The location of rules that explicitly specify `generator_name`
    and/or `generator_function` attributes (typically because they
    are incidentally copied from `native.existing_rule()`) is now the
    top-level call in the `BUILD` file, which is consistent with
    rules that do not explicitly specify these attributes.
  - Warnings (most notably those associated with the `deprecation`
    rule attribute) are no longer replayed on subsequent invocations
    unless the target in question is re-analyzed. Warnings are purely
    informational, so this change has no bearing on the correctness
    of the build. Downstream tests that break due to this change
    should update their expectations.
  - `--experimental_remote_build_event_upload` has been renamed to
    `--remote_build_event_upload`
  - [Breaking change] platform, constraint_setting, and
    constraint_value can no longer take an applicable_licenses value.
    Remediation is to remove the attribute and rely on the package
    level default.
  - `--experimental_action_cache_store_output_metadata` has been
    renamed to `--action_cache_store_output_metadata`
  - Changed the default value for `--remote_build_event_upload` to
    `minimal`.
  - `--experimental_remote_cache_compression` has been renamed to
    `--remote_cache_compression`
  - The REPO.bazel and MODULE.bazel files are now also considered
    workspace boundary markers.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Azarchs, Adam Lavin, Adam Liddell, Adam Singer, Adam Wolf, Albert Lloveras, Alessandro Patti, Alex Eagle, Alex Eagle, Alex Eagle, Alex Scott, AlexTereshenkov, Alex Torok, Amanda L Martin, Andreas Fuchs, Andreas Herrmann, Andreas Herrmann, Andrew Katson, Andrew Klotz, Andy Hamon, Ankush Goyal, Anthony Pratti, Anthony Ter-Saakov, Ara Nguyen, Artem V. Navrotskiy, Artem Zinnatullin, arunkumar9t2, arun.sampathkumar, aryeh, Ast-x64, Austin Schuh, Benedek Thaler, Benjamin Lee, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Peterson, Benjamin Sigonneau, Ben Lee, Bohdan Vanieiev, Bo Zhang, Bo Zhang, Bradley Burns, Brandon Duffany, Brandon Jacklyn, Brentley Jones, Brentley Jones, bromano, Cameron Mulhern, Chad Miller, Charles-Francois Natali, Chirag Ramani, Chris Clearwater, Chris Fredrickson, Christopher Peterson Sauer, Christopher Rydell, Christopher Sauer, ckiffel, Cristian Hancila, crydell-ericsson, Dan Bamikiya, Dan Fleming, Daniel Grunwald, Daniel KT, Daniel McCarney, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Danny Wolf, Dave MacLachlan, Dave Nicponski, David Cummings, David, David Ostrovsky, David Sanderson, Delwin9999, Denys Kurylenko, dhmemi, Dimi Shahbaz, divanorama, dmaclach, Dmitry Ivankov, dorranh, ecngtng, Ed Schouten, Eitan Adler, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Emil Kattainen, erenon, Eric Cousineau, Eric Song, Eric Wendelin, Ethan Steinberg, Ezekiel Warren, Fabian Brandstetter, Fabian Meumertzheim, Fabian Meumertzheim, FaBrand, Fahrzin Hemmati, Fahrzin Hemmati, Felix Ehrenpfort, Finn Ball, floriographygoth, frazze-jobb, Fredrik Medley, Garrett Holmstrom, Gaspare Vitta, Gautam Korlam, George Gensure, George Prekas, gkgoat1, gkorlam, goodspark, Greg Estren, Greg, Greg Magolan, Gregory Fong, Greg Roodt, Grzegorz Lukasik, Grzegorz Lukasik, Halil Sener, Halil Sener, Hannes Kufler, Hao Yuan, homuler, hvadehra, hvd, Igor Nazarenko, Ikko Ashimine, Jack Dai, James Broadhead, James Ma, Jan, Jason Tan, Jay Bazuzi, Jeremy Volkman, Jesse Chan, jheaff1, Jiawen Chen, Joe Lencioni, Joel Jeske, Joel Williamson, Johannes Abt, John Hinnegan, John Laxson, John Laxson, John Millikin, Jonathan Gerrish, Jonathan Schear, Jon Landis, Jon Parise, jonrose-dev, Jon Shea, Jordan, juanchoviedo, Julio Merino, Justus Tumacder, Kaiqin Chen, keertk, Keith Smiley, kekxv, Ken Micklas, Kevin Hogeland, Kevin Lin, Kirill Zabelin, Kiron, Konstantin Erman, Krishna Ersson, Krzysztof Naglik, kshyanashree, Kun-Lu, Lauri Peltonen, Lee Mracek, lihu, Liu Liu, lripoche, Lszl Csomor, Luc Bertrand, Luis Fernando Pino Duque, m, Malte Poll, Marc Zych, Marc Zych, Marek uppa, Mark Karpov, Masoud Koleini, Mathieu Olivari, Matt Clarkson, Matt Mackay, Mauricio Galindo, Max Liu, Maxwell Elliott, Menny Even Danan, menny, Michael Chinen, Michael P. Nitowski, Mikhail Balabin, mohamadk, Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Nathaniel Brough, nathyong, Nick Korostelev, Niek Peeters, Nikolay Shelukhin, Nitesh Anandan, Niyas Sait, Noa Resare, odisseus, Oleh Stolyar, Olek Wojnar, Oliver Lee, Olle Lundberg, Omar Zuniga, Oscar Bonilla, Patrick Balestra, Patrick Balestra, Paul Gschwendtner, Paul Tarjan, Peter Kasting, Peter Mounce, Philipp Schrader, Pras Velagapudi, Qais Patankar, Rabi Shanker Guha, Rahul Butani, Rai, Rajeshwar Reddy T, Red Daly, redwrasse, Rifqi Mulya Fahmi, robincaloudis, Robin Tweedie, Roger Hu, Roman Salvador, ron-stripe, rustberry, Ryan Beasley, Ryan Schmidt, Sagar Pathare, Sahin Yort, Saleem Abdulrasool, samhowes, Samuel Giddins, Sara Adams, Sascha Moecker, Sebastian Olsson, Sergey Tyurin, Severin Strobl, Shuai Zhang, Siddhesh Bhupendra Kuakde, Simon Bjorklen, Simon Mavi Stewart, something_vague, Son Luong Ngoc, Stephan Wolski, Steve Siano, steve-the-bayesian, Steve Vermeulen, Stiopa Koltsov, susinmotion, Sven Tiffe, Takeo Sawada, Tao Wang, tatiana, tbaing, Ted Kaplan, Ted Kaplan, Tetsuo Kiso, Thaler Benedek, Thi Doan, Thi Doan, Thi Don, Thomas Carmet, Thomas Chen, ThomasCJY, Thomas, Thomas Zayouna, Thulio Ferraz Assis, Timothe Peignier, Timothy Klim, Tobi, Tomas Volf, Tom Cnops, Tom de Goede, Torgil Svensson, Trustin Lee, Ulf Adams, Ulf Adams, Ulrik Falklof, Uri Baghin, Vaidas Pilkauskas, vardaro, Vasilios Pantazopoulos, Vertexwahn, Vladimir Tagakov, Waleed Khan, William Muir, wisechengyi, Wren Turkal, Xavier Bonaventura, Xdng Yng, Xiangquan Xiao, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic Bonenberger, Yannic, Yannic, Yesudeep Mangalapilly, Yi Cheng, Yury Evtikhov, Yuval Kaplan, Yuval K, Yuval, yuzhy8701, Zhongpeng Lin, [zqzzq].
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