Release Notes:
General: + Release 8.4.1 (2025-09-11)
OSS: + Update MODULE.bazel and .bazelversion after creating the new branch, release-8.4.2 (#27086)
Rules-CPP: + Remove xcode_locator’s no_uuid and codesigning workarounds (#27087)
Acknowledgements:
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as bazel.build machine account, Ruoyu Zhong.
Notice: Bazel installers contain binaries licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Those installers should always be redistributed along with the source code.
Some versions of Bazel contain a bundled version of OpenJDK. The license of the bundled OpenJDK and other open-source components can be displayed by running the command bazel license. The vendor and version information of the bundled OpenJDK can be displayed by running the command bazel info java-runtime. The binaries and source-code of the bundled OpenJDK can be downloaded from our mirror server.
Security: All our binaries are signed with our public key 3D5919B448457EE0.