Release 7.4.1rc2 (2024-11-06)

Bazel 7.4.1 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.

Core

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

External Deps

• Fixed an issue where changes to --experimental_downloader_config aren't reflected in registry access until a Bazel server restart. (#24228)

Local Execution

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

Performance

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

Remote Execution

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

C++ / Objective-C

• Revert "Propagate linkopts of header-only libraries to cc_shared_library" (#24087)
• Revert "Fix ml path for Windows clang-cl cc toolchain (#23406)" (#24211)

Java

• Expose last remaining private APIs for java rules migration (#24084)
• Add missing private API for tokenizing javacopts (#24153)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Cornelius Riemenschneider, Fabian Meumertzheim, Honnix, Matt Brown, and Roman Salvador.

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