Release 7.3.1rc2 (2024-08-14)

Bazel 7.3.1 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.

ExternalDeps

• Fixed the lockfile always being considered out of date when --incompatible_use_plus_in_repo_names is set. (#23281)
• Fixed a crash when vendoring alias targets. (#23309)

Performance

• Revert "Deduplicate locally executed path mapped spawns” (#23290)

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