Release 7.1.1rc2 (2024-03-19)

Baseline: 9b39cca

Bazel 7.1.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

External Deps

• Fix bazel mod tidy failure with no changes (#21662)
• Allow any canonical repo name to be used with bazel mod show_repo (#21694)
• Fix two bazel mod tidy crashes (#21700)
• Reverted the 7.1.0 change to make bazel fetch use cquery under the hood (#21735)

Local Execution

• Also inject a failure for createWritableDirectory when testing that ActionOutputDirectoryHelper propagates exceptions. (#21683)
• Fix race condition and add more logging for null entry error message (#21692)
• Fix sandbox cleanup crashing after server restart (#21733)

Performance

• Actually use shouldPublish() to determine whether to publish the execution log to the BEP. (#21671)
• Use execution info instead of hard-coded mnemonics for Java path mapping (#21703)

Java

• Let native Turbine image find ct.sym with non-hermetic java_runtime (#21670)

Acknowledgements:

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

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