Baseline: 50b61e3

Bazel 6.5.0 is a minor LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 6.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

General

• Fix tree file materialized as symlink to another file when building without the bytes. (#20409)
• Fix bootstrapped Bazel binary (#20804)
• Ignore read-only errors when updating the mtime of the install_base (#20568)

C++ / Objective-C

• Fix versioned shared libraries for macOS toolchain (#20847)

Configurability

• Flip --incompatible_visibility_private_attributes_at_definition (#20520)
• Implemented --incompatible_enable_proto_toolchain_resolution (#20925)

External Dependencies

• Fix extraction of tar archives containing sparse files. (#20531)
• Restart at most once when prepopulating repository rule environment (#20667)

Java

• Don't pass --add-opens= to javac (#20472)

Remote Execution

• RemoteSpawnRunner: record inbetween phases in timing profile (#20550)
• Add profiling to remoteActionBuildingSemaphore.acquire() (#20549)
• Add flag experimental_throttle_remote_action_building (#20861)

Starlark / Build API

• Various methods and fields related to labels and repos are deprecated in favor of new options with clearer naming and intent. The deprecated APIs can be disabled by setting --noincompatible_enable_deprecated_label_apis. (#20590)
  • native.repository_name() is deprecated in favor of the new native.repo_name().
  • Label.workspace_name is deprecated in favor of the new Label.repo_name.
  • Label.relative() is deprecated in favor of the new Label.same_package_label() alongside the existing
  • native.package_relative_label() and Label().

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Brentley Jones, Fabian Meumertzheim, Jordan Mele, Rahul Butani, and Son Luong Ngoc.

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