Release 8.1.1 (2025-02-25)

Bazel 8.1.1 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

• Fix building binary launchers on windows with clang-cl (#25344)

External Dependencies

• Fall back to rctx.name if $original_name is empty (#25310)

Java

• Restore compatibility with any JDK 23 on Windows (#25348)

Remote Execution

• Rollback of ‘Use digest function matching the checksum in gRPC remote downloader’ (#25331)

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.

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