Release 7.4.0 - October 2024

[iancha1992]

Status of Bazel 7.4.0

• Expected first release candidate date: 2024-10-10
• Expected release date: 2024-10-16
• List of release blockers

To report a release-blocking bug, please add a comment with the text @bazel-io flag to the issue. A release manager will triage it and add it to the milestone.

To cherry-pick a mainline commit into 7.4.0, simply send a PR against the release-7.4.0 branch.

Task list:

• Create release candidate
• Check downstream projects
• Create draft release announcement
• Push the release and notify package maintainers
• Update the documentation
• Update the release page

[keith]

Would it be reasonable to do a RC of this release sooner? There have been a lot of cherry picks that I would like to start testing with

[keertk]

@meteorcloudy @Wyverald thoughts on getting RC1 out before 10/7?

[keith]

Maybe matters less to me now that e43c933 is in, but I'm sure more people would test a real RC

[meteorcloudy]

We still have many release blockers to be resolved, I'm afraid that moving the cut date earlier would put too much pressure on other people.

Maybe matters less to me now that e43c933 is in, but I'm sure more people would test a real RC

Nice, for anyone who wants to test earlier, they can just use the latest commit from the release branch. Other people can wait until all release blockers are resolved for 7.4 before testing.

[Wyverald]

We're pushing back the rc1 date for 7.4.0 by two days (to 2024-10-09). In hindsight, planning 8.0.0rc1 and 7.4.0rc1 on the same date was maybe not the best idea :P

[iancha1992]

Bazel 7.4.0rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from here: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/tag/7.4.0rc1
If you're using Bazelisk, you can point to this RC by setting USE_BAZEL_VERSION=7.4.0rc1.

Please test it out and report any issues here as soon as possible.
A draft of the release notes can be found here.

Thanks!