Release 6.2.1 (2023-06-02)

Baseline: 758b44d

Bazel 6.2.1 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.

General

• Fix bazel run test_target exit code issue (#18512)
• Use extension rather than local names in ModuleExtensionMetadata (#18535)

Acknowledgements

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

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