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

Release 8.0.1rc1 (2025-01-15)

Release Notes:

Android:

• Remove autoload warnings, improve errors and fix legacy repo name support (#24856)

CLI:

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

Configurability:

• Allow native.bazel_version to be overridden for dev builds (#24772)
• 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)

Core:

• Detect file reads that are longer than expected (#24821)

Documentation:

• Symbolic macro Stardoc proto cherry picks (#24644)
• Fix invalid dict syntax in macro docs (#24648)

ExternalDeps:

• 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)

General:

• Release 8.0.0 (2024-12-09)
• Also apply --experimental_inprocess_symlink_creation to filesets. (#24918)

Local-Exec:

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

OSS:

• Make rlocation in test-setup.sh compatible with /bin/sh (#24628)
• Partially fix the bootstrap build (#24852)

Remote-Exec:

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

Rules-CPP:

• Print embedded label / version when starting Bazel. (#24650)

Rules-Java:

• Fix checking TEST_PREMATURE_EXIT_FILE (#24660)

Rules-ObjC:

• Fix linking objc binaries in the root package (#24726)
• Fix linking objc binaries in the root package (#24727)

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alessandro Patti, bazel.build machine account, Fabian Meumertzheim, Keith Smiley, Simon Thornington, Xdng Yng, Xùdōng Yáng.

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