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

Release 8.1.1rc1 (2025-02-21)

Release Notes:

ExternalDeps:

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

General:

• Release 8.1.0 (2025-02-13)

OSS:

• Fix building binary launchers on windows with clang-cl (#25344)
• Restore compatibility with any JDK 23 on Windows (#25348)

Remote-Exec:

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

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as bazel.build machine account, Fabian Meumertzheim.

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