Release Notes:
Configurability: + aquery: //foo:bar now means “all configured targets with label //foo:bar” instead of “choose an arbitrary configured target with label //foo:bar”. This is in line with cquery behavior. (#22135) + Added a new flag --incompatible_disable_native_repo_rules to disable native repo rule usage in WORKSPACE. All native repo rules now have a Starlark counterpart that can be used in both WORKSPACE and Bzlmod; see #22080 for more details. (#22203) + Starlark command-line flags can now be referred to through alias targets. (#22212)
ExternalDeps: + bzlmod git_repository now accepts the strip_prefix arg and passes it to the underlying git_repository call. (#22137) + Added a new include() directive to MODULE.bazel files, which allows the root module file to be divided into multiple segments. (#22204) + Fixed certain deadlocks in repo fetching with worker threads (--experimental_worker_for_repo_fetching=auto). (#22261) + print statements in module files are now only executed for the root module and modules subject to non-registry overrides (e.g. local_path_override). (#22263) + The new refresh value for --lockfile_mode behaves like the update mode, but additionally forces a refresh of mutable registry content (yanked versions and missing module versions) when switched to or from time to time while enabled. (#22371)
OSS: + Bazel on Linux and BSD now respects the XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variable instead of assuming that ~/.cache/bazel is writable. (#21817)
Remote-Exec: + The combined coverage report produced via --combined_report=lcov is now announced on the BES via the new CoverageReport event. (#22327) + The compact and full execution logs now contain start times for spawns (if available). (#22341)
Rules-CPP: + The default Unix C++ toolchain now supports the parse_headers feature to validate header files with --process_headers_in_dependencies. (#22369)
Starlark-Interpreter: + Starlark min and max buitins now allow a key callback, similarly to sorted. (#21960)
Acknowledgements:
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as bazel.build machine account, Brentley Jones, Cameron Martin, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Douglas Thor, Fabian Meumertzheim, George Gensure, hvd, Mark Elliot, Romain Chossart, Son Luong Ngoc, Spencer Putt, Thomas Weischuh, Xdng Yng, Xùdōng Yáng, Zheng Wei Tan.
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