Release 9.0.2rc2 (2026-04-07)

• Include both windows and unix files in embedded_zipper_sources (#29235)
• The local and remote repo contents caches now include the host OS and CPU architecture in the cache key. (#29194)
• Fixed launcher/launcher_maker for cross platform builds. (#29238)
• Correctly cross-jlink Windows arm64 builds (#29012)
• Make include verification aware of Windows case-insensitivity (#29214)
• Fix infinite spin-wait and missing cancellation propagation in TaskDeduplicator. (#28990)
• Treat RUNFILES_TREE_MARKER as a directory in `BuildEvent.forArtifact()`. (#29010)

Acknowledgments

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Boleyn Su and Fabian Meumertzheim.

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