Release 0.16.1rc2 (2018-08-09)

Baseline: 4f64b77a3dd8e4ccdc8077051927985f9578a3a5

Cherry picks: + 4c9a0c82d308d5df5c524e2a26644022ff525f3e: reduce the size of bazel's embedded jdk + d3228b61f633cdc5b3f740b641a0836f1bd79abd: remote: limit number of open tcp connections by default. Fixes #5491 + 8ff87c164f48dbabe3b20becd00dde90c50d46f5: Fix autodetection of linker flags + c4622ac9205d2f1b42dac8c598e83113d39e7f11: Fix autodetection of -z linker flags + 10219659f58622d99034288cf9f491865f818218: blaze_util_posix.cc: fix order of #define + ab1f269017171223932e0da9bb539e8a17dd99ed: blaze_util_freebsd.cc: include path.h explicitly + 68e92b45a37f2142c768a56eb7ecfa484b8b22df: openjdk: update macOS openjdk image. Fixes #5532 + f45c22407e6b00fcba706eb62141cb9036bd38d7: Set the start time of binary and JSON profiles to zero correctly. + bca1912853086b8e9a28a85a1b144ec0dc9717cc: remote: fix race on download error. Fixes #5047 + 3842bd39e10612c7eef36c6048407e81bcd0a8fb: jdk: use parallel old gc and disable compact strings + 6bd0bdf5140525cb33dc2db068b210261d9df271: Add objc-fully-link to the list of actions that require the apple_env feature. This fixes apple_static_library functionality. + f330439fb970cfa17c70fc59c1458bb1c31c9522: Add the action_names_test_files target to the OSS version of tools/buils_defs/cc/BUILD. + d215b64362c4ede61c8ba87b5f3f57bce4785d15: Fix StackOverflowError on Windows. Fixes #5730 + 366da4cf27b7f957ef39f89206db77fa2ac289df: In java_rules_skylark depend on the javabase through //tools/jdk:current_java_runtime + 30c601dc13d9e1b40a57434c022c888c7578cc56: Don't use @local_jdk for jni headers + c56699db5f9173739ba3ac55aa9fa69b6457a99b: 'DumpPlatformClasspath' now dumps the current JDK's default platform classpath

This release is a patch release that contains fixes for several serious regressions that were found after the release of Bazel 0.16.0.

In particular this release resolves the following issues:

Please watch our blog for a more detailed release announcement.

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