The following release notes are still in the process of being updated and cleaned up.

Release 7.4.1rc1 (2024-10-29)

Release Notes:

Core:

• Prevent excessive thread creation in disk cache garbage collection (#24114)

General:

• Release 7.4.0 (2024-10-22)

Local-Exec:

• Fix double encoding of inputs in worker request (#24123)

OSS:

• fix: Fix trim_length in runfiles.bash (#24122)
• docs(module): fix list of bullet points not rendering (#24132)

Performance:

• Skip over runfiles middleman artifacts without a RunfilesSupplier (#24086)

Remote-Exec:

• Correctly compute the number of threads to use for garbage collection. (#24111)

Rules-CPP:

• Revert "Propagate linkopts of header-only libraries to cc_shared_library" (#24087)

Rules-Java:

• Expose last remaining private APIs for java rules migration (#24084)

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as bazel.build machine account, Fabian Meumertzheim, Honnix, Matt Brown, Roman Salvador.

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