Release 7.2.1rc2 (2024-06-21)

Release Notes:

Android: + Replace //external:android/d8_jar_import with “@android_gmaven_r8//jar” (#22699)

ExternalDeps: + Fix crash on IOException in SingleExtensionEvalFunction (#22697) + Treat missing repo boundary files as transient errors (#22707) + Ensure that downloads are cancelled on repo rule restart (#22758) + Allow discard previous overrides for –override_repository and –override_module (#22784) + Enforce and await cleanup in StarlarkBaseExternalContext (#22814) + Locate BCR module overlay files under the overlay subdirectory (#22823) + Be more precise about where to read the URL rewriter config from (#22831) + Do not eval WORKSPACE in LocalRepositoryLookupFunction when --noenable_workspace (#22837)

General: + Release 7.2.0 (2024-06-10) + Add missing category submessage. (#22828)

Local-Exec: + Fix permissions on tree artifact subdirectories as needed to move them out of the sandbox. (#22806)

Performance: + Do not fail a sandboxed spawn for missing execution statistics (#22790)

Remote-Exec: + Fix an NPE with the compact execution log and coverage (#22713) + Retry on connection reset error for http cache. (#22785)

Acknowledgements:

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