Release 4.2.4 (2023-04-20)

Baseline: 37a429a

Bazel 4.2.4 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 4.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

• Bump minimum supported macOS versions to 10.13 (#18047)
• Patch zlib to fix compatibility with Xcode 14.3 (#18041)

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Daniel Wagner-Hall.

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