Release 7.1.2rc1 (2024-05-06)

Baseline: 3e4e2af

Bazel 7.1.2 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

• Fixed excessive repo fetching caused by changes to .netrc (#22186)

Remote Execution

• Don't upload remote input to remote cache (#21941)
• Implement RemoteActionFileSystem#statIfFound correctly when the path cannot be canonicalized (#21889)

Acknowledgements:

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

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