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

Release 9.0.2rc1 (2026-04-02)

Release Notes:

General:

• Release 9.0.1 (2026-03-10)

OSS:

• Correctly cross-jlink Windows arm64 builds (#28988) (#29012)
• Update .bazelversion and MODULE.bazel for 9.0.2 (#28951)

Performance:

• Make include verification aware of Windows case-insensitivity (#29214)

Remote-Exec:

• Fix infinite spin-wait and missing cancellation propagation in TaskDeduplicator. (#28938) (#28990)
• Treat RUNFILES_TREE_MARKER as a directory in `BuildEvent.forArtifac… (#29010)

Acknowledgements:

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

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