Release 7.2.1rc2 (2024-06-21)

Bazel 7.2.1 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.

Android

• Replace //external:android/d8_jar_import with "@android_gmaven_r8//jar" (#22699)

External Deps

• Fix crash on IOException in SingleExtensionEvalFunction (#22697)
• You can now discard previous overrides for --override_repository and --override_module by specifying an empty path. For example, if --override_repository=myrepo=/foo is followed by --override_repository=myrepo=, then myrepo will not be overridden. (#22784)
• Overlay files specified in source.json are now assumed to be under the overlay subdirectory. (#22823)
• Fixed an issue with the WORKSPACE file still being evaluated when --noenable_workspace is set. (#22837)

Remote Execution

• Fix an NPE with the compact execution log and coverage (#22707)
• Retry on connection reset error for http cache. (#22785)

Local Execution

• Fix permissions on tree artifact subdirectories as needed to move them out of the sandbox. (#22806)

Performance

• Do not fail a sandboxed spawn for missing execution statistics (#22790)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim and Simon Mavi Stewart.

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