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

Release 7.7.0rc2 (2025-10-27)

Bazel 7.7.0 is a minor LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

General

• Bazel now requires the minimal glibc version of 2.25.
• Fixed a compatibility issue with macOS Tahoe. (#27088)

Configurability

• The new ctx.configuration.short_id field provides a short identifier for the current configuration that is understood by bazel config. (#27219)

External Deps

• Added repository_ctx.original_name, which contains the original value of the name attribute as specified at the repo rule call site. (#27034)
• Modules backed by http_archive or git_repository no longer require a MODULE.bazel file to be contained in the source archive. (#27216)
• source.json now supports a new attribute mirror_urls as backup URLs for the source archive. (#27004)
• Fixed bazel mod path/all_paths behavior. (#26937)
• The flag_alias directive is added to MODULE.bazel as a no-op for forward compatibility. (#27335)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as David Sanderson, David Zbarsky, Fabian Meumertzheim, Grzegorz Lukasik, Ruoyu Zhong, Son Luong Ngoc, Ulrik Falklof, and wudisheng.

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