Release 6.1.2 (2023-04-18)

Baseline: d60ce2c

Bazel 6.1.2 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 6.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

• Patch zlib to fix compatibility with Xcode 14.3 (#18039)
• Use ctime in file digest cache key (#18101)
• Turn applicable_licenses on platforms into a no-op (#18082)

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim.

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