Release 0.6.0rc2 (2017-09-18)
Baseline: 87cc92e5df35d02a7c9bc50b229c513563dc1689
Cherry picks:
- a615d288b008c36c659fdc17965207bb62d95d8d:
Rollback context.actions.args() functionality.
Incompatible changes:
- Noop flag --deprecated_generate_xcode_project deleted.
- Objects in Skylark are converted to strings in a more descriptive
and less harmful way (they don't leak information that shouldn't
be accessed by Skylark code, e.g. nondeterministic memory addresses
of objects).
set is deprecated in BUILD and .bzl files, please use depset
instead. Ordering names have also been changed, please use
"default", "postorder", "preorder", and "topological" instead of
"stable", "compile", "naive_link", and "link" correspondingly.- Integer overflow (on signed 32 bit numbers) in BUILD/bzl files is
an error.
- Keyword-only syntax in a function definition is now forbidden
e.g.
def foo(a, *, b) or def foo(a, *b, c)
- --incompatible_comprehension_variables_do_not_leak defaults to
"true."
Iteration variable becomes inaccessible after a list/dict
comprehension.
New features:
- There is now a 'siblings' query function. See the query
documentation for more details.
- Added the print_action command, which outputs the
actions needed to build a given target in the form of an
ExtraActionSummary proto in text format.
- android_binary now supports proguard_apply_dictionary to specify
a custom dictionary to use for choosing names to obfuscate
classes and members to.
Important changes:
- 'strip' action is now configured via feature configuration
- Flags from action_config get added first to the command line
first,
before the flags from features.
bazel info output\_path no longer relies on the root directory
filename being equal to the workspace name.- The
print function now prints debug messages instead of
warnings.
- speedup of incremental dexing tools
- --announce_rc now controls whether bazelrc startup options are
printed to stderr.
- Removing a few unused objc_provider keys.
- Improved logging when workers have to be restarted due to its
files having changed.
- Top-level
if statements are now forbidden.
- Java protos are compiled to Java 7 bytecode.
- All Android builds now use the desugar tool to support some Java
8 features by default. To disable, use the
--nodesugar_for_android flag.
- Skylark-related options may now appear as "common" command
options in the .bazelrc
- Python is now required to build bazel.
- When the lvalue of an augmented assignment is a list, we now
throw an error
before evaluating the code (e.g.
a, b += 2, 3).
- New --build_runfile_manifests flag controls production of
runfiles manifests.
- Enable debug info for Java builds
- Allow java_lite_proto_library in the deps of android rules.
- .so files in APKs will be memory-page aligned when
android_binary.nocompress_extensions contains ".so" and
--experimental_android_use_nocompress_extensions_on_apk is
specified.
- Skylark providers can specify allowed fields and their
documentation.
- Support ctx.actions.args() for more efficient Skylark command
line construction.
- The remote HTTP/1.1 caching client (--remote_rest_cache) now
distinquishes between action cache and CAS. The request URL for
the action cache is prefixed with 'ac' and the URL for the CAS
is prefixed with 'cas'.
JavaInfo is a preferred alias to java\_common.provider.- J2ObjC version updated to 2.0.3.
- A new Java coverage implementation is available. Makes possible
coverage for Skylark JVM rules.
- Make proguard_apply_dictionary also apply to class and package
obfuscation, not just class members.
- When using the dictionary literal syntax, it is now an error to
have duplicated keys (e.g. {'ab': 3, 'ab': 5}).
- android_binary.nocompress_extensions now applies to all files in
the APK, not just resources and assets.
- The apple_genrule rule that is distributed with Bazel has been
deleted. Users who wish to use genrules with Xcode's
DEVELOPER_DIR set should use the rules in
https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple instead.
- The swift_library rule that is distributed with Bazel has been
deleted. Users who wish to compile Swift should use the rules in
https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple instead.
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