Release Notes:
CLI: + Report options with BoolOrEnumConverter as supporting --no... (#24908) + Mark --blazerc as allows_multiple in flag docs (#24878)
Configurability: + Deprecate the experimental_action_resource_set flag. (#24939)
Core: + Use long instead of int for thread indices (#24866) + Add bazel query --output_file option, which writes query results di… (#24667)
ExternalDeps: + Remove BUILD.bazel before symlinking when creating new_local_repository (#24900) + Explain why a module hasn’t been found in any registry (#24881) + Include apparent names of deps in bazel mod JSON output (#24847) + Don’t show fixup warnings during bazel mod tidy (#24846) + Also apply –experimental_repository_downloader_retries to a SocketException (#24722) + Cherry-pick “Migrate imp to importlib in path_test.py” (#24732) + Retry the cleanup of downloadAndExtract (#24665) + Backport https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/9b027c88051797ada7350098ef190191b953014a and https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/be2186fbe76ea52b9c146a5f01780a0171384ac8 to fix windows CI failures (#24691)
General: + Release 7.4.1 (2024-11-11)
OSS: + Update relnotes script to follow the patch release format for minor releases with no RELNOTES tags (#25025) + Remove no-op --block_for_lock command option (#25000) + Fix error in dynamic_mode documentation (#24812) + windows launcher: Make the launcher compile under mingw (#24813)
Performance: + Do not invalidate remote metadata during action dirtiness check (#24941) + Remove allocation instrumenter jar and update version in docs (#24912)
Remote-Exec: + Include invocation ID in compact execution log (#24915) + Set oldest_content_accepted for remote downloader requests wi… (#24844)
Rules-CPP: + Remove empty coverage environment (#24835)
Rules-Java: + Update embedded JDK to 21.0.5 (#24682) + java_launcher: Fix non-portable ofstream usage (#24725)
Acknowledgements:
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as bazel.build machine account, Boleyn Su, Fabian Meumertzheim, Keith Lea, Keith Smiley, Mislav Mandaric, Pareesh Madan, Simon Thornington, Xavier Bonaventura.
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