Release 0.13.0rc1 (2018-04-12)

Baseline: fdee70e6e39b74bfd9144b1e350d2d8806386e05

Incompatible changes:

• "blaze run --direct_run" with tests now gives the test an approximation of the official test environment.
• The order of dict-valued attributes is now the order in the BUILD file (or in the Skylark dict they were created from) and not lexicographically sorted.
• Remove //tools/defaults:android_jar. Use @bazel_tools//tools/android:android_jar instead.
• The flag --incompatible_show_all_print_messages is removed. Messages generated by print statements from any package will be displayed as DEBUG messages.
• The --incompatible_disallow_uncalled_set_constructor flag is no longer available, the set constructoris completely removed from Skylark. Usedepset` instead.

• Variables PACKAGE_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME are deprecated in favor of functions package_name() and repository_name().

  https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/lib/native.html#p ackage_name

• BUILD_TIMESTAMP now contains seconds (and not milliseconds) since the epoch.

New features:

• python,runfiles: You can now depend on @bazel_tools//tools/runfiles:py-runfiles to get a platform-independent runfiles library for Python. See DocString of https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/src/tools/runfiles /runfiles.py for usage information.
• The new "--direct_run" flag on "blaze run" lets one run interactive binaries.
• The new "--local_tmp_root=" flag allows specifying the temp directory for locally executed actions.
• "blaze run --direct_run" now exports the BUILD_{WORKSPACE,WORKING}_DIRECTORY variables to tell the binary about the cwd of the client and the workspace root.
• The new "--local_tmp_root=" flag allows specifying the temp directory for locally executed actions.
• New Android device test rule: android_instrumentation_test.
• Add option to dump the action graph to a file: 'bazel dump --action_graph=/path/to/file'.
• Pass tags from java_import_external rule to the generated java_import rule.
• blaze query: use --proto:output_rule_attrs to filter for given attributes
• Added Android NDK r15 support, including compatibility with Unified Headers.
• Adds --ltobackendopt and --per_file_ltobackendopt for passing options to ThinLTO LTO backend compile actions only.
• Strings have a new .elems() method, that provides an iterator on the characters of the string.
• Now you can access three functions in windows_cc_configure.bzl by: load("@bazel_tools/tools/cpp:windows_cc_configure.bzl", "")

Important changes:

• Fix how libraries to link is specified to archiver actions.
• Fix how libraries_to_link are expanded in the archiver command line.
• stop using --no-locals in android coverage builds
• apple_binary can now generate dSYM outputs with the --apple_generate_dsym=true flag.
• Fix FDO_STAMP_MACRO to only be set when fdoBuildStamp is not null.
• Improved clarity of warning message for unsupported NDK revisions.
• Add lint check for discouraging glob(["**/*.java"])
• unifly lint glob(["**/*.java"]) message
• Removed flags --incompatible_checked_arithmetic, --incompatible_dict_literal_has_no_duplicates, --incompatible_disallow_keyword_only_args, and --incompatible_comprehension_variables_do_not_leak.
• Add "proto_source_root" flag to proto_library.
• Updated default android_cpu value to armeabi-v7a
• In skylark, print(target) now shows the provider keys of a target, as debug information.
• The native http_archive rule is deprecated. Use the Skylark version available via load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive") instead.
• flaky_test_attempts supports the regex@attempts syntax, like runs_per_test.
• None TESTED=presubmit, next cl
• Fixed include paths for NDK r13+ llvm-libc++ headers to ndk/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++/include and ndk/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++abi/include
• --config flags now expand in place by default.
• None (select branches are mutually exclusive, so this is a no-op)
• aar_import now sets java.transitive_exports.
• repository_cache is no longer experimental and enabled by default.
• BAZEL_LINKOPTS is now consulted when autoconfiguring c++ toolchain
• The native git_repository rule is deprecated. Use the Skylark version available via load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:git.bzl", "git_repository") instead.
• Removed flag --incompatible_load_argument_is_label.
• Fix broken links in query docs.
• CcToolchain: Introduced action_config for "c++-link-transitive-dynamic-library"
• Use bazel dump --action_graph=/path/to/action.proto --action_graph:targets://foo:bar,//foo:foo to filter for certain targets in the action graph dump.
• Added Android NDK r16 support. Use --cxxopt='-std=c++11compile with the C++11 standard, and--android_crosstool_top=@androidndk//:toolchain-libcppto use thelibc++` STL.
• Add a --build_event_publish_all_actions flag to allow all actions to be published via the BEP.
• C++: Introduced --experimental_drop_fully_static_linking_mode
• Removed cc_inc_library, please use cc_library instead
• Fix performance regression
• CppRules: cc_binary/cc_test now enable 'static_linking_mode' or 'dynamic_linking_mode'.
• CppRules: Unified action_configs for static libraries
• Remove support for blaze dump --vfs. It is no longer meaningful.
• Enable dependency checking for aar_import targets.
• internal_bootstrap_hack has been deprecated and removed.
• Properly handle tree artifacts on the link command line coming from a cc_library dependency.
• Allow C++ features to make proto_library emit smaller C++ code
• The 'j2objc' configuration fragment is exposed to Skylark.
• Remove the default content of the global bazelrc.
• In int() function, do not auto-detect base if input starts with '0'.

• Users can now pass --experimental_shortened_obj_file_path=true to have a shorter object file path, the object file paths (and all other related paths) will be constructed as following: If there's no two or more source files with the same base name:

  //_objs//. otherwise:

  //_objs//N/. N = the file?s order among the source files with the same basename, starts from 0.
• Move (c/cxx)opts from legacy_compile_flags to user_compile_flags
• CppRules: Remove optional_*_flag fields from CROSSTOOL, they are not used, and could be expressed using features.
• Introduce --incompatible_disable_objc_provider_resources to turn off all resource-related fields of the Objc provider.
• Removed the statement of "What does Bazel support?" as it's limiting/misleading. Added supported host OSes to "multi-platform" paragraph.
• android_library AAR output now contains proguard.txt
• Bazel now displays information about remote cache hits and execution strategies used in its UI after every build and test, and adds a corresponding line "process stats" to BuildToolLogs in BEP.
• Print correct build result for builds with --aspects flag.

• android_binary.manifest_merger is no longer supported.

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