Release 6.3.1 (2023-07-31)

Baseline: 0f231ac

Bazel 6.3.1 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.

• Disabled lockfile support by default due to issue reports (#19105 and #19068). Will be re-enabled in the next minor release.
• Mark isolated extension usages as experimental (#19050)
• Fix a bug where frozen targets list was mutated while expanding env attribute (#19052)
• Advertise CcInfo from cc_import (#19086)
• Update java_tools to v12.6 (#19091)

Acknowledgements

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

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