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Release 8.4.2 (2025-10-01)
Bazel 8.4.2 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.
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Acknowledgements:
This release contains contributions from Fabian Meumertzheim and Ruoyu Zhong.
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