Release 6.5.0rc1 (2024-01-12)

Baseline: 50b61e38fb6eaa08a6c811a313824a59f1c2abbf

Release Notes:

• Fix tree file materialized as symlink to another file when building without the bytes. (#20409)
• Don't pass --add-opens= to javac (#20472)
• Flip --incompatible_visibility_private_attributes_at_definition (#20520)
• Fix extraction of tar archives containing sparse files. (#20531)
• RemoteSpawnRunner: record inbetween phases in timing profile (#20550)
• Add profiling to remoteActionBuildingSemaphore.acquire() (#20549)
• The label API shakeup & docs cleanup (#20590)
• Disable rewriter test (#20758)
• Disable PyTest.testSmoke on macOS (#20729)
• Upgrade abseil-cpp to fix build on macos_arm64 (#20785)
• Ignore read-only errors when updating the mtime of the install_base (#20568)
• Restart at most once when prepopulating repository rule environment (#20667)
• Fix bootstrapped Bazel binary (#20804)
• Add flag experimental_throttle_remote_action_building (#20861)
• Fix versioned shared libraries for macOS toolchain (#20847)

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Brentley Jones, Fabian Meumertzheim, Jordan Mele, Rahul Butani, Son Luong Ngoc.

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• bazel-6.5.0rc1-installer-darwin-x86_64.sh [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel-6.5.0rc1-installer-linux-x86_64.sh [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel-6.5.0rc1-linux-arm64 [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel-6.5.0rc1-linux-x86_64 [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel-6.5.0rc1-windows-arm64.exe [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel-6.5.0rc1-windows-arm64.zip [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel-6.5.0rc1-windows-x86_64.exe [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel-6.5.0rc1-windows-x86_64.zip [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel_6.5.0rc1-linux-x86_64.deb [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel_6.5.0rc1.dsc [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel_6.5.0rc1.tar.gz [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel_nojdk-6.5.0rc1-darwin-arm64 [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel_nojdk-6.5.0rc1-darwin-x86_64 [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel_nojdk-6.5.0rc1-linux-arm64 [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel_nojdk-6.5.0rc1-linux-x86_64 [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel_nojdk-6.5.0rc1-windows-arm64.exe [SHA-256] [SIG]
• bazel_nojdk-6.5.0rc1-windows-x86_64.exe [SHA-256] [SIG]