Release 6.3.2 (2023-08-08)

Baseline: 283ed36

Bazel 6.3.2 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.

• Ensure that extension unique names followed by ~ are prefix-free (#19167)
• Module extensions can now specify a list of environment variables to watch through the environ parameter.
• The module lockfile can now deal with missing fields due to Bazel version upgrades. (#19175)
• Module extensions are now re-evaluated if any labels they depend on change, similar to repo rules. (#19175)

Acknowledgements:

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

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