Release 9.0.2rc1 (2026-04-03)

Release Notes:

General: + Release 9.0.1 (2026-03-10)

OSS: + Correctly cross-jlink Windows arm64 builds (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/pull/28988) (#29012) + Update .bazelversion and MODULE.bazel for 9.0.2 (#28951)

Performance: + Make include verification aware of Windows case-insensitivity (#29214)

Remote-Exec: + Fix infinite spin-wait and missing cancellation propagation in TaskDeduplicator. (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/pull/28938) (#28990) + Treat RUNFILES_TREE_MARKER as a directory in `BuildEvent.forArtifac… (#29010)

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as bazel.build machine account, Fabian Meumertzheim.

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