Release 7.6.0rc1 (2025-03-11)

Bazel 7.6.0 is a minor LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 8.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

External Deps

• The repo_name parameter of bazel_dep can now be set to None to mark it a "nodep" dependency -- that is, the bazel_dep specification is only honored if the target module already exists in the dependency graph by some other means. (#25509)

Remote Execution

• Don't download all artifacts with BwoB when their TTL expires (#25490)
• Avoid downloading the empty Tree message (#25489)
• Actually fix setting the mtime on a shared disk cache. (#25473)

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, James Judd, and timothyklim.

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