Release Notes:
Android: + Remove autoload warnings, improve errors and fix legacy repo name support (#24856)
CLI: + Mark --blazerc as allows_multiple in flag docs (#24877) + Report options with BoolOrEnumConverter as supporting --no... (#24909)
Configurability: + Allow native.bazel_version to be overridden for dev builds (#24772) + Forward @bazel_tools//tools/sh:toolchain_type to rules_shell (#24793) + Allow cc_binary with dynamic_deps to be extended (#24815) + Add and flip --incompatible_locations_prefers_executable (#24874)
Core: + Detect file reads that are longer than expected (#24821)
Documentation: + Symbolic macro Stardoc proto cherry picks (#24644) + Fix invalid dict syntax in macro docs (#24648)
ExternalDeps: + Retry the cleanup of downloadAndExtract (#24630) + Don’t show fixup warnings during bazel mod tidy (#24769) + Handle access to files under invalid repo names gracefully (#24771) + Streamline ModuleExtensionId#toString() & Fix edge cases in lockfile handling (#24845) + Add more Bzlmod-related profiler spans (#24895) + Remove BUILD.bazel before symlinking when creating new_local_repository (#24901)
General: + Release 8.0.0 (2024-12-09) + Also apply –experimental_inprocess_symlink_creation to filesets. (#24918)
Local-Exec: + Fix symlink planting for multiple aspects (#24741) + Fix parsing cpu.max file in cgroup v2 implementation (#24753)
OSS: + Make rlocation in test-setup.sh compatible with /bin/sh (#24628) + Partially fix the bootstrap build (#24852)
Remote-Exec: + Create symlink trees through the native filesystem, not the action filesystem. (#24924)
Rules-CPP: + Print embedded label / version when starting Bazel. (#24650)
Rules-Java: + Fix checking TEST_PREMATURE_EXIT_FILE (#24660)
Rules-ObjC: + Fix linking objc binaries in the root package (#24726) + Fix linking objc binaries in the root package (#24727)
Acknowledgements:
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alessandro Patti, bazel.build machine account, Fabian Meumertzheim, Keith Smiley, Simon Thornington, Xdng Yng, Xùdōng Yáng.
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