Release 8.0.0 - November 2024

[keertk]

Status of Bazel 8.0.0

• Expected first release candidate date: 2024-10-07
• Expected final release candidate date: 2024-10-28
• Expected release date: 2024-11-04
• List of release blockers

To report a release-blocking bug, please add a comment with the text @bazel-io flag 8.0.0 to the issue. A release manager will triage it and add it to the milestone.

To cherry-pick a mainline commit into 8.0.0, simply send a PR against the release-8.0.0 branch.

Task list:

• Pick release baseline: d028522
• Create release candidate: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/tag/8.0.0rc1
• Check downstream projects
• Create draft release announcement
• Send the release announcement PR for review
• Push the release and notify package maintainers
• Update the documentation
• Push the blog post
• Update the release page

[iancha1992]

Bazel 8.0.0rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from here: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/tag/8.0.0rc1
If you're using Bazelisk, you can point to this RC by setting USE_BAZEL_VERSION=8.0.0rc1.

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

Thanks!

[criemen]

FWIW the --incompatible_disallow_empty_glob flag flip in 8.0 break rules_dotnet, reported here: bazel-contrib/rules_dotnet#458
I suspect the downstream test suite doesn't contain a real-world project that uses rules_dotnet.