Release 8.0.1 (2025-01-17)

Bazel 8.0.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 8.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

General

• Allow native.bazel_version to be overridden for dev builds (#24772)
• Remove autoload warnings, improve errors and fix legacy repo name support (#24856)
• Fix checking TEST_PREMATURE_EXIT_FILE (#24660)
• Print embedded label / version when starting Bazel. (#24650)
• Detect file reads that are longer than expected (#24821)

Build Rules

• Forward @bazel_tools//tools/sh:toolchain_type to rules_shell (#24793)
• Allow cc_binary with dynamic_deps to be extended (#24815)
• Add and flip --incompatible_locations_prefers_executable (#24874)
• Fix linking objc binaries in the root package (#24726, #24727)

CLI

• Mark --blazerc as allows_multiple in flag docs (#24877)
• Report options with BoolOrEnumConverter as supporting --no... (#24909)

External Deps

• Retry the cleanup of downloadAndExtract (#24630)
• Don't show fixup warnings during bazel mod tidy (#24769)
• Handle access to files under invalid repo names gracefully (#24771)
• Streamline ModuleExtensionId#toString() & Fix edge cases in lockfile handling (#24845)
• Add more Bzlmod-related profiler spans (#24895)
• Remove BUILD.bazel before symlinking when creating new_local_repository (#24901)

Local Execution

• Fix symlink planting for multiple aspects (#24741)
• Fix parsing cpu.max file in cgroup v2 implementation (#24753)

Remote Execution

• Create symlink trees through the native filesystem, not the action filesystem. (#24924)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alessandro Patti, Fabian Meumertzheim, Keith Smiley, and Simon Thornington.

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