Release 8.0.0-pre.20240911.1 (2024-09-20)

Baseline: ad2ea07

Incompatible changes:

  - --legacy_important_outputs is flipped to false. See #14353 for
    details

Important changes:

  - Uploading local action results to a disk or remote cache now
    occurs in the background whenever possible, potentially
    unblocking the execution of followup actions. Set
    `--noremote_cache_async` to revert to the previous behavior.
  - Overrides in the root MODULE.bazel file are now ignored with
    `--ignore_dev_dependency`. (Overrides in non-root modules are
    already ignored.)
  - Added support for using a remote cache that evicts blobs and
    doesn't have AC integrity check (e.g. HTTP cache).

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Benjamin Peterson, Fabian Meumertzheim, Jacob Van De Weert, John Millikin.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,125 @@
+## Release 8.0.0-pre.20240911.1 (2024-09-20)
+
+```
+Baseline: ad2ea0736eca30ef1f5ad0b46292cb03e43eec5c
+```
+
+Incompatible changes:
+
+  - --legacy_important_outputs is flipped to false. See #14353 for
+    details
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - Uploading local action results to a disk or remote cache now
+    occurs in the background whenever possible, potentially
+    unblocking the execution of followup actions. Set
+    `--noremote_cache_async` to revert to the previous behavior.
+  - Overrides in the root MODULE.bazel file are now ignored with
+    `--ignore_dev_dependency`. (Overrides in non-root modules are
+    already ignored.)
+  - Added support for using a remote cache that evicts blobs and
+    doesn't have AC integrity check (e.g. HTTP cache).
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Benjamin Peterson, Fabian Meumertzheim, Jacob Van De Weert, John Millikin.
+
+## Release 8.0.0-pre.20240909.1 (2024-09-19)
+
+```
+Baseline: 29f7c863d859b2a19b0c6f58cd59c9d74aa188c1
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + b637c473249e8ff971fd410b4018ef70569c2833:
+     Release 8.0.0-pre.20240909.1 (2024-09-19)
+   + 5166a571e013c7f45e682f22e177e94f3d9c9e21:
+     Release 8.0.0-pre.20240909.1 (2024-09-19)
+   + 5b5cf0245ce8f7c688f88a7728d9c9b4ed95dd21:
+     Release 8.0.0-pre.20240909.1 (2024-09-19)
+```
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as .
+
+## Release 8.0.0-pre.20240909.1 (2024-09-19)
+
+```
+Baseline: 29f7c863d859b2a19b0c6f58cd59c9d74aa188c1
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + b637c473249e8ff971fd410b4018ef70569c2833:
+     Release 8.0.0-pre.20240909.1 (2024-09-19)
+   + 5166a571e013c7f45e682f22e177e94f3d9c9e21:
+     Release 8.0.0-pre.20240909.1 (2024-09-19)
+```
+
+Incompatible changes:
+
+  - `ctx.resolve_tools` is no longer available by default, in
+    preparation for complete removal. See
+    https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/22249 for migration
+    instructions. Use `--noincompatible_disallow_ctx_resolve_tools`
+    to temporarily make it available again.
+  - The `aquery` command now reports all potential inputs of actions
+    that support input discovery, including the input headers of C++
+    compilation actions and those explicitly marked as unused through
+    the `unused_inputs_list` argument to `ctx.actions.run`. Set
+    `--noinclude_pruned_inputs` to omit pruned inputs from `aquery`
+    output when running it after action execution.
+    RELNOTES[INC]: This is not a release note, but a reminder to
+    remove the note for `--include_scheduling_dependencies`, which
+    was introduced in the 8.x tree but won't make it into the final
+    release.
+  - `--zip_undeclared_test_outputs` now defaults to false, causing
+    undeclared test outputs (i.e., files written to
+    `$TEST_UNDECLARED_OUTPUTS_DIR` by a test) to be produced as a
+    directory instead of a zip file.
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - A new experimental flag,
+    `--experimental_build_event_output_group_mode`, allows users to
+    change how a given output group's files are reported in BEP. The
+    current behavior is `FILESET` which populates
+    `OutputGroup.file_sets`. Users may now specify `INLINE` to
+    instead report files directly in the
+    `TargetComplete`/`AspectComplete` event under
+    `OutputGroup.inline_files`. Users may also specify `BOTH` to
+    populate `OutputGroup.file_sets` and `OutputGroup.inline_files`.
+  - Bazel no longer has the android_binary, android_library,
+    android_device_script_fixture and android_host_service_fixture
+    rules. Use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_android instead.
+    See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/23199
+  - Bazel no longer has the android_sdk_repository rule. Use
+    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_android instead.
+  - Uploading local action results to a disk or remote cache now
+    occurs in the background whenever possible, potentially
+    unblocking the execution of followup actions. Set
+    `--noremote_cache_async` to revert to the previous behavior.
+  - `--incompatible_remote_downloader_send_all_headers` is removed.
+  - `--build_event_upload_max_threads` is removed.
+  - `incompatible_remote_output_paths_relative_to_input_root` is
+    removed.
+  - The default value of
+    `--experimental_remote_cache_compression_threshold` is changed to
+    `100`.
+  - Build without the Bytes is disabled when using HTTP cache.
+  - Build without the Bytes is disabled when using HTTP cache.
+  - Symlink trees are now created through direct filesystem calls by
+    default, instead of delegated to a helper process. On Windows,
+    this entails respecting the `--windows_enable_symlinks` flag,
+    falling back to a copy when the flag is unset (the helper process
+    always attempts to create symlinks, irrespective of the flag).
+    Set `--noexperimental_inprocess_symlink_creation` to temporarily
+    revert to the previous behavior, which will be removed in a
+    future release.
+  - By default, coverage artifacts will be reported inline in the
+    `TargetComplete` event. To disable this behavior, pass
+    `--experimental_build_event_output_group_mode=baseline.lcov=named_
+    set_of_files_only`.
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Adam Azarchs, Alessandro Patti, Benjamin Peterson, Cornelius Riemenschneider, Fabian Meumertzheim, Jordan Mele, PikachuHy, Xdng Yng, xinyu.wang.
+
 ## Release 8.0.0-pre.20240826.1 (2024-09-06)
 
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