Release 0.24.1 (2019-04-02)

Baseline: 235e76b0e756d05599a6cbe1663ff8e13df84a86

Cherry picks:

   + badd82e4c5cda7b3232481e1c63a5550ac898cd8:
     Automated rollback of commit
     1b4c37c38804559b5c1ade6f9c93501875e231b0.
   + 33e571939085dd158422e1b3503cfc738e0a3165:
     Fix the Python version select() mechanism to handle
     PY3-as-default
   + 56366ee3a73e2c92b2fa36a9840478202b9618ca:
     Set non-empty values for msvc_env_* when VC not installed
   + 22b3fbf4800113df51d603d943bd9eb9517ef904:
     Windows, test wrapper: fix broken integration test
   + f14d447cb56aee563f6e686b8f5b086a3bb55d47:
     Add whitelist file for starlark transitions
   + d99bc478db1f3414b4f6cd3dc14ca70aacf6b375:
     Update BUILD
   + 3529ad7ccf0c26dfb20a9d67b9d96de15f309f8b:
     Rename tools/function_transition_whitelist/BUILD to
     tools/whitelists/function_transition_whitelist/BUILD
   + de0612ad3ef7cc8c44069261befdeb0d15b97c10:
     Update bazel_toolchains to latest release and add toolchain
     config target for BuildKite CI (rbe_ubuntu1604)
   + 3e660ad178926648e8e10e2ee7a1a30b12f9b3d1:
     Automated rollback of commit
     087734009801242b83655efb863b2d5a761ae3dc.
   + 314cf1f9e4b332955c4800b2451db4e926c3e092:
     Pass -undefined dynamic_lookup to dynamic library linking
     actions on Mac
   + fc586a86b614667a21e5a01aea3544ac0338de78:
     Move cc_flags target into @bazel_tools//tools/cpp.
   + ea1703b30f9ac43a0c3262f5729c34658ed8d473:
     C++: Fix crash reported in #7721
   + 803801d1494f06f0ce977a1f2241ef6a4d85df09:
     Pass execution info to xml generating spawn. Fixes #7794
   + f092ec388a4b58788285b928c86f0f81561d4be4:
     Release 0.24.0 (2019-03-26)
   + c56c489119e6587975964c44ceb9e429ad950736:
     Wrap StatusRuntimeExceptions from GrpcRemoteCache

Baseline: f092ec388a4b58788285b928c86f0f81561d4be4

Cherrypicks:

  • c56c489119e6587975964c44ceb9e429ad950736: Wrap StatusRuntimeExceptions from GrpcRemoteCache

Release 0.24.0 (2019-03-26)

Baseline: 235e76b0e756d05599a6cbe1663ff8e13df84a86

Cherry picks:

   + badd82e4c5cda7b3232481e1c63a5550ac898cd8:
     Automated rollback of commit
     1b4c37c38804559b5c1ade6f9c93501875e231b0.
   + 33e571939085dd158422e1b3503cfc738e0a3165:
     Fix the Python version select() mechanism to handle
     PY3-as-default
   + 56366ee3a73e2c92b2fa36a9840478202b9618ca:
     Set non-empty values for msvc_env_* when VC not installed
   + 22b3fbf4800113df51d603d943bd9eb9517ef904:
     Windows, test wrapper: fix broken integration test
   + f14d447cb56aee563f6e686b8f5b086a3bb55d47:
     Add whitelist file for starlark transitions
   + d99bc478db1f3414b4f6cd3dc14ca70aacf6b375:
     Update BUILD
   + 3529ad7ccf0c26dfb20a9d67b9d96de15f309f8b:
     Rename tools/function_transition_whitelist/BUILD to
     tools/whitelists/function_transition_whitelist/BUILD
   + de0612ad3ef7cc8c44069261befdeb0d15b97c10:
     Update bazel_toolchains to latest release and add toolchain
     config target for BuildKite CI (rbe_ubuntu1604)
   + 3e660ad178926648e8e10e2ee7a1a30b12f9b3d1:
     Automated rollback of commit
     087734009801242b83655efb863b2d5a761ae3dc.
   + 314cf1f9e4b332955c4800b2451db4e926c3e092:
     Pass -undefined dynamic_lookup to dynamic library linking
     actions on Mac
   + fc586a86b614667a21e5a01aea3544ac0338de78:
     Move cc_flags target into @bazel_tools//tools/cpp.
   + ea1703b30f9ac43a0c3262f5729c34658ed8d473:
     C++: Fix crash reported in #7721
   + 803801d1494f06f0ce977a1f2241ef6a4d85df09:
     Pass execution info to xml generating spawn. Fixes #7794

Incompatible changes:

  • Added --incompatible_py3_is_default to test switching the default Python version to PY3 for py_binary/py_test targets that do not specify a version. See #7359.
  • //tools/cmd_line_differ has been renamed to //tools/aquery_differ & can now compare (in addition to command lines) inputs of actions given 2 aquery results.
  • java_(mutable_|)proto_library: removed strict_deps attribute.
  • The flag --incompatible_list_based_execution_strategy_selection was added and is used to ease the migration to the new style of specifying execution strategy selection and fallback behavior. The documentation for this flag is here: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7480
  • Added --incompatible_py2_outputs_are_suffixed, for switching the bazel-bin symlink to point to Python 3 outputs instead of Python 2 outputs. See #7593.

New features:

  • Make actions.args() object chainable.
  • Added --incompatible_windows_style_arg_escaping flag: enables correct subprocess argument escaping on Windows. (No-op on other platforms.)
  • Added --incompatible_windows_escape_jvm_flags flag: enables correct java_binary.jvm_flags and java_test.jvm_flags tokenization and escaping on Windows. (No-op on other platforms.)

Important changes:

  • Allow running aquery against the current state of Skyframe
  • Added support for the “navigation” resource directory to Android resource processing in Bazel. This is used by the Navigation Architecture Component.
  • --incompatible_disable_runtimes_filegroups was flipped (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/6942)
  • Incompatible flag --incompatible_linkopts_in_user_link_flags has been flipped (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/6826)
  • Incompatible flag --incompatible_dont_emit_static_libgcc has been flipped (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/6825)
  • --incompatible_disallow_filetype is enabled by default.
  • Fixed issue where exceptions and stacktraces were silently swallowed in the Android resource processing pipeline.
  • --incompatible_disable_expand_if_all_available_in_flag_set has been flipped (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7008)
  • --incompatible_disallow_dict_plus is enabled by default
  • Adds --incompatible_disable_objc_library_resources to disable resource attributes in objc_library. Please migrate these attributes to data instead.
  • --incompatible_disallow_old_style_args_add is enabled by default.
  • Using the native module in BUILD files is deprecated. It will be forbidden with --incompatible_disallow_native_in_build_file.
  • (Python rules) PyRuntimeInfo is exposed to Starlark, making it possible for Starlark rules to depend on or imitate py_runtime. The files attribute of py_runtime is no longer mandatory.
  • incompatible_use_toolchain_providers_in_java_common: pass JavaToolchainInfo and JavaRuntimeInfo providers to java_common APIs instead of configured targetshttps://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7186.
  • is_using_fission crosstool variable is now exposed in all compile actions when fission is active (it used to be exposed only for linking actions).
  • incompatible_use_toolchain_providers_in_java_common: pass JavaToolchainInfo and JavaRuntimeInfo providers to java_common APIs instead of configured targetshttps://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7186.
  • py_runtime gains a python_version attribute for specifying whether it represents a Python 2 or 3 interpreter.
  • --incompatible_java_coverage is enabled by default.
  • Starlark rules can safely declare attributes named “licenses”
  • When using --incompatible_list_based_execution_strategy_selection, Bazel will use remote execution by default (if you specify --remote_executor), otherwise persistent workers (if the action supports it), otherwise sandboxed local execution (if the action and platform supports it) and at last unsandboxed local execution. The flags --spawn_strategy and --strategy continue to work as before - this only sets new defaults for the case where you don't specify these flags.
  • Set default value of --incompatible_remap_main_repo to true.
  • Set default value of --incompatible_remap_main_repo to true.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Andrew Suffield, Brandon Lico, Chris Eason, Clint Harrison, Ed Schouten, Garrett Hopper, George Gensure, Greg, John Millikin, Julie, Keith Smiley, Laurent Le Brun, Ryan Beasley, Shmuel H, Travis Cline, Vladimir Chebotarev.

Release 0.23.0 (2019-02-26)

Baseline: 441fd75d0047f8a998d784c557736ab9075db893

Cherry picks:

   + 6ca7763669728253606578a56a205bca3ea883e9:
     Fix a typo
   + 2310b1c2c8b2f32db238f667747e7d5672480f4a:
     Ignore SIGCHLD in test setup script
   + f9eb1b56706f91063e9d080b850fa56964e77324:
     Complete channel initialization in the event loop

Incompatible changes:

  • //src:bazel uses the minimal embedded JDK, if you want to avoid the extra steps of minimizing the JDK, use //src:bazel-dev instead.
  • //src:bazel uses the minimal embedded JDK, if you want to avoid the extra steps of building bazel with the minimized JDK, use //src:bazel-dev instead.
  • The default value of --host_platform and --platforms will be changed to not be dependent on the configuration. This means that setting --cpu or --host_cpu will not affect the target or host platform.
  • Toolchain resolution for cc rules is now enabled via an incompatible flag, --incompatible_enable_cc_toolchain_resolution. The previous flag, --enabled_toolchain_types, is deprecated and will be removed.
  • java_(mutable_|)proto_library: removed strict_deps attribute.
  • Python rules will soon reject the legacy “py” struct provider (preview by enabling --incompatible_disallow_legacy_py_provider). Upgrade rules to use PyInfo instead. See #7298.
  • java_(mutable_|)proto_library: removed strict_deps attribute.
  • Two changes to native Python rules: 1) default_python_version and --force_python are deprecated; use python_version and --python_version respectively instead. You can preview the removal of the deprecated names with --incompatible_remove_old_python_version_api. See #7308. 2) The version flag will no longer override the declared version of a py_binary or py_test target. You can preview this new behavior with --incompatible_allow_python_version_transitions. See #7307.

Important changes:

  • There is a new flag available --experimental_java_common_create_provider_enabled_packages that acts as a whitelist for usages of java_common.create_provider. The constructor will be deprecated in Bazel 0.23.
  • [#7024] Allow chaining of the same function type in aquery.
  • Introduces --local_{ram,cpu}_resources, which will take the place of --local_resources.
  • [#6930] Add documentation for the aquery command.
  • Incompatible flag --incompatible_dont_emit_static_libgcc has been flipped (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/6825)
  • Incompatible flag --incompatible_linkopts_in_user_link_flags has been flipped (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/6826)
  • Flag --incompatible_range_type is removed.
  • Flag --incompatible_disallow_slash_operator is removed.
  • Flag --incompatible_disallow_conflicting_providers is removed.
  • --incompatible_disallow_data_transition is now enabled by default
  • Allow inclusion of param files in aquery output
  • [#6985] Add test to verify aquery's behavior for Cpp action templates.
  • --incompatible_require_feature_configuration_for_pic was flipped (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7007).
  • Also ignore module-info.class in multi-version Jars
  • objc_framework has been deleted. Please refer to apple_dynamic_framework_import and apple_static_framework_import rules available in [rules_apple](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple/blob/maste r/doc/rules-general.md)
  • --test_sharding_strategy=experimental_heuristic is no more
  • objc_bundle_library has been removed. Please migrate to rules_apple's [apple_resource_bundle](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple/ blob/master/doc/rules-resources.md#apple_resource_bundle).
  • You can now use the attribute aapt_version or the flag --android_aapt to pick the aapt version for android_local_test tests
  • In --keep_going mode, Bazel now correctly returns a non-zero exit code when encountering a package loading error during target pattern parsing of patterns like “//foo:all” and “//foo/...”.
  • The default value for --incompatible_strict_action_env has been flipped to ‘false’ again, as we discovered breakages for local execution users. We'll need some more time to figure out the best way to make this work for local and remote execution. Follow https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7026 for more details.
  • Locally-executed spawns tagged “no-cache” no longer upload their outputs to the remote cache.
  • Introduces --host_compiler flag to allow setting a compiler for host compilation when --host_crosstool_top is specified.
  • --incompatible_expand_directories is enabled by default
  • [aquery] Handle the case of aspect-on-aspect.
  • Fixed a longstanding bug in the http remote cache where the value passed to --remote_timeout would be interpreted as milliseconds instead of seconds.
  • Enable --incompatible_use_jdk10_as_host_javabase by default, see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/6661
  • Add --incompatible_use_jdk11_as_host_javabase: makes JDK 11 the default --host_javabase for remote jdk (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7219)
  • Highlight TreeArtifact in aquery text output.
  • Locally-executed spawns tagged “no-cache” no longer upload their outputs to the remote cache.
  • java_common APIs now accept JavaToolchainInfo and JavaRuntimeInfo instead of configured targets for java_toolchain and java_runtime
  • cc_common.create_cc_toolchain_config_info is stable and available for production use
  • incompatible_use_toolchain_providers_in_java_common: pass JavaToolchainInfo and JavaRuntimeInfo providers to java_common APIs instead of configured targets (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7186)
  • --incompatible_strict_argument_ordering is enabled by default.
  • Bazel now supports reading cache hits from a repository cache, even if it doesn't have write access to the cache.
  • Adding arm64e to OSX CROSSTOOL.
  • Ignore package-level licenses on config_setting.
  • Add an optional output_source_jar parameter to java_common.compile
  • --incompatible_disable_objc_provider_resources is now enabled by default. This disables ObjcProvider's fields related to resource processing.
  • Explicitly set https.protocols and exclude TLSv1.3.
  • Bazel now validates that JAVA_HOME points to a valid JDK and falls back to auto-detection by looking up the path of javac.
  • Upgrade the embedded JDK version to 11.0.2.
  • Added --incompatible_disable_crosstool_file (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7320)
  • --incompatible_disable_objc_provider_resources is now enabled by default. This disables ObjcProvider's fields related to resource processing.
  • --incompatible_disable_tools_defaults_package has been flipped.
  • For tests that do not generate a test.xml, Bazel now uses a separate action to generate one; this results in minor differences in the generated test.xml, and makes the generation more reliable overall.
  • incompatible_generate_javacommon_source_jar: java_common.compile now always generates a source jar, see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5824.
  • New incompatible flag --incompatible_disallow_struct_provider_syntax removes the ability for rule implementation functions to return struct. Such functions should return a list of providers instead. Migration tracking: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7347

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Benjamin Peterson, Ed Schouten, erenon, George Gensure, Greg Estren, Igal Tabachnik, Ittai Zeidman, Jannis Andrija Schnitzer, John Millikin, Keith Smiley, Kelly Campbell, Max Vorobev, nicolov, Robin Nabel.

Release 0.22.0 (2019-01-28)

Baseline: deb028e3fb30b4e2953df16f35ab1f55a08ea8fa

Cherry picks:

   + a3a5975dca3ad04c19dc7d063fcf490a8cd612fd:
     Fix a race condition in remote cache
   + b8d0e1b05c225a4b943ce498194d069d18093d9a:
     Use a new GitHub token and KMS key for the release process.
   + 3759e3895503aa2bbd6943c5b568b8c050b9448f:
     remote: fix unexpected IO error (not a directory)
   + 4473bb1a9ec4282aa8497b86580d68e82415df4a:
     Fix a race condition in Bazel's Windows process management.
   + 9137fb940886aa516f32ca8a36feccedb545c99b:
     undo flag flip of --incompatible_strict_action_env
   + 12ab12e80ad1c9a3510aa4bbfdf3fddafc0bca00:
     Revert "Enabling Bazel to generate input symlinks as defined by
     RE AP?
   + 6345c747d8cb1819e70c853becadbf8a989decf1:
     Automated rollback of commit
     30536baa4a410d8c0a7adab5cd58cd8a2ac7e46c.

The Bazel team is happy to announce a new release of Bazel, Bazel 0.22.0.

Baseline: deb028e3fb30b4e2953df16f35ab1f55a08ea8fa

Breaking changes

Upcoming changes

This release is a migration window for the following changes.

General Changes

  • https://docs.bazel.build now supports versioned documentation. Use the selector at the top of the navigation bar to switch between documentation for different Bazel releases.

  • set projectId in all PublishBuildToolEventStreamRequest

Android

  • mobile-install now works with aapt2. Try it out with bazel mobile-install --android_aapt=aapt2 //my:target

  • Fixed issues with mobile-install v1 when deploying to Android 9 Pie devices. https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/6814

  • Fixed issue where error messages from Android manifest merging actions were not fully propagated.

  • New incompatible change flag --incompatible_use_aapt2_by_default for defaulting to aapt2 in Android builds has been added. To build with aapt2 today, pass the flag --incompatible_use_aapt2_by_default=true or --android_aapt=aapt2, or set the aapt_version to aapt2 on your android_binary or android_local_test target.

  • Fixed mobile-install v1 error when installing an app with native libraries onto an Android 9 (Pie) device. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/examples/issues/77

  • Fixed a mobile-install bug where arm64-v8a libraries were not deployed correctly on arm64 devices. This was done by enabling incremental native lib deployment by default. A previously undocumented --android_incremental_native_libs flag is removed, and is now the regular behavior. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/2239

Apple

  • The objc_bundle rule has been removed. Please migrate to rules_apple's [apple_bundle_import](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple/bl ob/master/doc/rules-resources.md#apple_bundle_import).

  • The apple_stub_binary rule has been deleted.

  • The --xbinary_fdo option that passes xbinary profiles has been added.

C++

  • cc_toolchain.(static|dynamic)_runtime_libs attributes are now optional

Packaging

  • build_tar.py in tools/build_defs/pkg now supports a JSON manifest that can be used to add paths that have symbols that can't be specified via the command line

Query

  • Filtering of inputs, outputs, and mnemonic filtering have been added to aquery.

  • The aquery and cquery query2 tests have been open-sourced.

  • The Bazel query how-to recommends “:*” instead of “:all”, because “all” might be the name of a target.

Testing

  • The --runs_per_test has been placed in the TESTING documentation category.

  • A a clarifying message has been added to test case summary output when all test cases pass but the target fails.

Contributors

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Benjamin Peterson, Dave Lee, George Gensure, Gert van Dijk, Gustavo Storti Salibi, Keith Smiley, Loo Rong Jie, Lukasz Tekieli, Mikhail Mazurskiy, Thi, Travis Cline, Vladimir Chebotarev, and Yannic.

Release 0.21.0 (2018-12-19)

Baseline: cb9b2afbba3f8d3a1db8bf68e65d06f1b36902f5

Cherry picks:

   + 12b96466ee0d6ab83f7d4cd24be110bb5021281d:
     Windows, test wrapper: rename the associated flag
   + 7fc967c4d6435de2bb4e34aac00ca2e499f55fca:
     Use a fixed thread pool in ByteStreamBuildEventArtifactUploader
   + 798b9a989aa793655d29504edb5fb85f3143db84:
     Add --build_event_upload_max_threads option
   + dbe05df23ccf4c919379e0294e0701fd3f66739c:
     Update the version of  skylib bundled in the distfile

Incompatible changes:

  • The --experimental_stl command line option is removed.
  • aquery defaults to human readable output format.

New features:

  • repository_ctx.download and repository_ctx.download_and_extract now return a struct.
  • Android Databinding v2 can be enabled with --experimental_android_databinding_v2.

Important changes:

  • The deprecated and unmaintained Docker rules in tools/build_defs/docker were removed. Please use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker instead.
  • The new --upload_query_output_using_bep query/cquery/aquery flag causes query outputs to be uploaded via BEP.
  • New incompatible flag --incompatible_strict_argument_ordering
  • --strict_android_deps and --strict_java_deps were renamed to --experimental_strict_java_deps
  • config_settings that select on “compiler” value instead of values = {“compiler” : “x”} should use flag_values = {“@bazel_tools//tools/cpp:compiler”: “x”}.
  • The new --upload_query_output_using_bep query/cquery/aquery flag causes query outputs to be uploaded via BEP.
  • Turn on --incompatible_disable_sysroot_from_configuration
  • We revamped our Android with Bazel tutorial! Check it out [here](https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/tutorial/android-a pp.html).
  • --incompatible_disallow_slash_operator is now on by default
  • Enable --experimental_check_desugar_deps by default. This flag rules out several types of invalid Android builds at compile-time.
  • The --max_config_changes_to_show option lists the names of options which have changed and thus caused the analysis cache to be dropped.
  • The --experimental_strict_action_env option has been renamed to --incompatible_strict_action_env and is now on by default. This means Bazel will no longer use the client's PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variables in the default action environment. If the old behavior is desired, pass --action_env=PATH and --action_env=LD_LIBRARY_PATH. --noincompatible_strict_action_env will also temporarily restore the old behavior. However, as --action_env is a more general and explicit way to pass client environmental variables into actions, --noincompatible_strict_action_env will eventually be deprecated and removed. See #6648 for more details.
  • XCRUNWRAPPER_LABEL has been removed. If you used this value before, please use @bazel_tools//tools/objc:xcrunwrapper instead.
  • --incompatible_static_name_resolution is no unable by default
  • We will phase out --genrule_strategy in favor of --strategy=Genrule= (for genrules) or --spawn_strategy= (for all actions).
  • --incompatible_package_name_is_a_function is now enabled by default
  • Dynamic execution is now available with --experimental_spawn_strategy. Dynamic execution allows a build action to run locally and remotely simultaneously, and Bazel picks the fastest action. This provides the best of both worlds: faster clean builds than pure local builds, and faster incremental builds than pure remote builds.
  • --incompatible_package_name_is_a_function is now enabled by default
  • New incompatible flag --incompatible_merge_genfiles_directory
  • grpc log now logs updateActionResult
  • CppConfiguration doesn't do package loading anymore. That means:
    • it's no longer needed to have C++ toolchain available when building non-C++ projects
    • bazel will not analyze C++ toolchain when not needed -> speedup ~2s on bazel startup when C++ rules using hermetic toolchain are not loaded
  • --incompatible_package_name_is_a_fu...

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as andy g scott ?, Attila Ol?h, Benjamin Peterson, Clint Harrison, Dave Lee, Ed Schouten, Greg Estren, Gregor Jasny, Jamie Snape, Jerry Marino, Loo Rong Jie, Or Shachar, Sevki Hasirci, William Chargin.

Release 0.20.0 (2018-11-30)

Baseline: 7bf7f031c332dc483257248d1c1f98ad75bbc83b

Cherry picks:

   + fd52341505e725487c6bc6dfbe6b5e081aa037da:
     update bazel-toolchains pin to latest release Part of changes to
     allow bazelci to use 0.19.0 configs. RBE toolchain configs at or
     before 0.17.0 are not compatible with bazel 0.19.0 or above.
   + 241f28d05424db2d11ee245dc856b992258505e3:
     Revert "Toggle --incompatible_disable_late_bound_option_defaults
     flag."
   + f7e5aef145c33968f658eb2260e25630dc41cc67:
     Add cc_toolchain targets for the new entries in the default
     cc_toolchain_suite.
   + d2920e32ec7f3f8551a693d33c17b19f1b802145:
     Revert "WindowsFileSystem: open files with delete-sharing"

Breaking changes in 0.20

0.20 is a migration window for the following changes

Breaking changes in the next release (0.21)

Incompatible changes:

  • the --experimental_no_dotd_scanning_with_modules command line argument is not supported anymore.
  • The --prune_cpp_modules command line option is not supported anymore.
  • the --experimental_prune_cpp_input_discovery command line option is not supported anymore.

New features:

  • Added support for Android NDK r18.

Important changes:

  • The ‘default’ parameter of attr.output and attr.output_list is removed. This is controlled by --incompatible_no_output_attr_default
  • A number of platform-related Starlark APIs which were previously marked “experimental” are now disabled by default, and may be enabled via --experimental_platforms_api
  • Make legacy-test-support (“legacy_test-”) from android_sdk_repository neverlink. The legacy test support libraries shouldn't be built into test binaries. To make them available at runtime, developers should declare them via uses-library: https://developer.android.com/training/testing/set-up-project#andr oid-test-base
  • query remote server Capabilities (per REAPI v2)
  • CppRules: All cc_toolchains depended on from cc_toolchain_suite.toolchains are now analyzed when not using platforms in order to select the right cc_toolchain.
  • removed obsolete --explicit_jre_deps flag.
  • Incompatible flag --incompatible_disable_legacy_cpp_toolchain_skylark_api was flipped.
  • Improve error messaging when unsupport proguard options are specified at the library level.
  • Incompatible flag --incompatible_disable_legacy_cpp_toolchain_skylark_api was flipped.
  • Incompatible flag --incompatible_disable_legacy_cpp_toolchain_skylark_api was flipped.
  • The --incompatible_disable_late_bound_option_defaults flag has been flipped (#6384)
  • Incompatible flag --incompatible_disable_legacy_flags_cc_toolchain_api was flipped (#6434)
  • Fixed issue where ctx.resolve_command created conflicting intermediate files when resolve_command was called multiple times within the same rule invocation with a long command attribute.
  • Incompatible flag --incompatible_disable_cc_configuration_make_variables was flipped (#6381)
  • If the --javabase flag is unset, it Bazel locates a JDK using the JAVA_HOME environment variable and searching the PATH. If no JDK is found --javabase will be empty, and builds targeting Java will not be supported. Previously Bazel would fall back to using the embedded JDK as a --javabase, but this is no longer default behaviour. A JDK should be explicitly installed instead to enable Java development
  • Bazel will now shut down when idle for 5 minutes and the system is low on RAM (linux only).
  • CROSSTOOL file is now read from the package of cc_toolchain, not from the package of cc_toolchain_suite. This is not expected to break anybody since cc_toolchain_suite and cc_toolchain are commonly in the same package.
  • All overrides of Starlark's ctx.new_file function are now deprecated. Try the --incompatible_new_actions_api flag to ensure your code is forward-compatible.
  • --incompatible_disable_cc_toolchain_label_from_crosstool_proto was flipped.
  • Introduce --(no)shutdown_on_low_sys_mem startup flag to toggle idle low-memory shutdown, disabled by default.
  • --incompatible_disable_cc_toolchain_label_from_crosstool_proto was flipped.
  • --incompatible_disable_cc_toolchain_label_from_crosstool_proto was flipped.
  • CppRules: All cc_toolchains depended on from cc_toolchain_suite.toolchains are now analyzed when not using platforms in order to select the right cc_toolchain.
  • The function attr.license is deprecated and will be removed. It can be disabled now with --incompatible_no_attr_license.
  • range() function now returns a lazy value (--incompatible_range_type is now set by default).
  • The code coverage report now includes the actual paths to header files instead of the ugly, Bazel generated, virtual includes path.
  • --incompatible_disallow_conflicting_providers has been switched to true
  • Add new flag --incompatible_disable_systool_from_configration to disable loading the systool from CppConfiguration.
  • Add new flag --incompatible_disable_sysroot_from_configuration to disable loading the systool from CppConfiguration.
  • Sorting remote Platform properties for remote execution. May affect cache keys!
  • Use different server log files per Bazel server process; java.log is now a symlink to the latest log.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as a7g4 a7g4@a7g4.net, Alan alan.agius@betssongroup.com, Asaf Flescher asafflesch@gmail.com, Benjamin Peterson bp@benjamin.pe, Ed Schouten ed.schouten@prodrive-technologies.com, George Gensure ggensure@uber.com, George Kalpakas kalpakas.g@gmail.com, Greg gregestren@users.noreply.github.com, Irina Iancu iirina@users.noreply.github.com, Keith Smiley keithbsmiley@gmail.com, Loo Rong Jie loorongjie@gmail.com, Mark Zeren mzeren@vmware.com, Petros Eskinder petroseskinder@users.noreply.github.com, rachcatch rachelcatchpoole@hotmail.com, Robert Brown robert.brown@gmail.com, Robert Gay robert.gay@redfin.com, Salty Egg 2281521+zhouhao@users.noreply.github.com.

Release 0.19.2 (2018-11-19)

Baseline: ac880418885061d1039ad6b3d8c28949782e02d6

Cherry picks:

   + 9bc3b20053a8b99bf2c4a31323a7f96fabb9f1ec:
     Fix the "nojava" platform and enable full presubmit checks for
     the various JDK platforms now that we have enough GCE resources.
   + 54c2572a8cabaf2b29e58abe9f04327314caa6a0:
     Add openjdk_linux_archive java_toolchain for nojava platform.
   + 20bfdc67dc1fc32ffebbda7088ba49ee17e3e182:
     Automated rollback of commit
     19a401c38e30ebc0879925a5caedcbe43de0028f.
   + 914b4ce14624171a97ff8b41f9202058f10d15b2:
     Windows: Fix Precondition check for addDynamicInputLinkOptions
   + 83d406b7da32d1b1f6dd02eae2fe98582a4556fd:
     Windows, test-setup.sh: Setting RUNFILES_MANIFEST_FILE only when
     it exists.
   + e025726006236520f7e91e196b9e7f139e0af5f4:
     Update turbine
   + 5f312dd1678878fb7563eae0cd184f2270346352:
     Fix event id for action_completed BEP events
   + f0c844c77a2406518c4e75c49188390d5e281d3d:
     Release 0.19.0 (2018-10-29)
   + c3fb1db9e4e817e8a911f5b347b30f2674a82f7c:
     Do not use CROSSTOOL to select cc_toolchain
   + 8e280838e8896a6b5eb5421fda435b96b6f8de60:
     Windows Add tests for msys gcc toolchain and mingw gcc toolchain
   + fd52341505e725487c6bc6dfbe6b5e081aa037da:
     update bazel-toolchains pin to latest release Part of changes to
     allow bazelci to use 0.19.0 configs. RBE toolchain configs at or
     before 0.17.0 are not compatible with bazel 0.19.0 or above.
   + eb2af0f699350ad187048bf814a95af23f562c77:
     Release 0.19.1 (2018-11-12)
   + 6bc452874ddff69cbf7f66186238032283f1195f:
     Also update cc_toolchain.toolchain_identifier when
     CC_TOOLCHAIN_NAME is set
   + f7e5aef145c33968f658eb2260e25630dc41cc67:
     Add cc_toolchain targets for the new entries in the default
     cc_toolchain_suite.
   + 683c302129b66a8999f986be5ae7e642707e978c:
     Read the CROSSTOOL from the package of the current cc_toolchain,
     not from --crosstool_top
  • Fixes regression #6662, by fixing tools/cpp/BUILD
  • Fixes regression #6665, by setting the toolchain identifier.
  • CROSSTOOL file is now read from the package of cc_toolchain, not from the package of cc_toolchain_suite. This is not expected to break anybody since cc_toolchain_suite and cc_toolchain are commonly in the same package.

Release 0.19.1 (2018-11-12)

Baseline: ac880418885061d1039ad6b3d8c28949782e02d6

Cherry picks:

   + 9bc3b20053a8b99bf2c4a31323a7f96fabb9f1ec:
     Fix the "nojava" platform and enable full presubmit checks for
     the various JDK platforms now that we have enough GCE resources.
   + 54c2572a8cabaf2b29e58abe9f04327314caa6a0:
     Add openjdk_linux_archive java_toolchain for nojava platform.
   + 20bfdc67dc1fc32ffebbda7088ba49ee17e3e182:
     Automated rollback of commit
     19a401c38e30ebc0879925a5caedcbe43de0028f.
   + 914b4ce14624171a97ff8b41f9202058f10d15b2:
     Windows: Fix Precondition check for addDynamicInputLinkOptions
   + 83d406b7da32d1b1f6dd02eae2fe98582a4556fd:
     Windows, test-setup.sh: Setting RUNFILES_MANIFEST_FILE only when
     it exists.
   + e025726006236520f7e91e196b9e7f139e0af5f4:
     Update turbine
   + 5f312dd1678878fb7563eae0cd184f2270346352:
     Fix event id for action_completed BEP events
   + f0c844c77a2406518c4e75c49188390d5e281d3d:
     Release 0.19.0 (2018-10-29)
   + c3fb1db9e4e817e8a911f5b347b30f2674a82f7c:
     Do not use CROSSTOOL to select cc_toolchain
   + 8e280838e8896a6b5eb5421fda435b96b6f8de60:
     Windows Add tests for msys gcc toolchain and mingw gcc toolchain
   + fd52341505e725487c6bc6dfbe6b5e081aa037da:
     update bazel-toolchains pin to latest release Part of changes to
     allow bazelci to use 0.19.0 configs. RBE toolchain configs at or
     before 0.17.0 are not compatible with bazel 0.19.0 or above.

Important changes:

  • Fix regression #6610, which prevents using the MINGW compiler on Windows.

Release 0.19.0 (2018-10-29)

Baseline: ac880418885061d1039ad6b3d8c28949782e02d6

Cherry picks:

   + 9bc3b20053a8b99bf2c4a31323a7f96fabb9f1ec:
     Fix the "nojava" platform and enable full presubmit checks for
     the various JDK platforms now that we have enough GCE resources.
   + 54c2572a8cabaf2b29e58abe9f04327314caa6a0:
     Add openjdk_linux_archive java_toolchain for nojava platform.
   + 20bfdc67dc1fc32ffebbda7088ba49ee17e3e182:
     Automated rollback of commit
     19a401c38e30ebc0879925a5caedcbe43de0028f.
   + 914b4ce14624171a97ff8b41f9202058f10d15b2:
     Windows: Fix Precondition check for addDynamicInputLinkOptions
   + 83d406b7da32d1b1f6dd02eae2fe98582a4556fd:
     Windows, test-setup.sh: Setting RUNFILES_MANIFEST_FILE only when
     it exists.
   + e025726006236520f7e91e196b9e7f139e0af5f4:
     Update turbine
   + 5f312dd1678878fb7563eae0cd184f2270346352:
     Fix event id for action_completed BEP events

The Bazel team is happy to announce a new version of Bazel, Bazel 0.19.

This document lists the major changes since Bazel 0.18.

General changes

  • The --incompatible_expand_directories flag will automatically expand directories in command lines. Design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11agWFiOUiz2htBLj6swPTob5z78TrCxm8DQE4uJLOwM

  • The --loading_phase_threads flag now defaults to auto (not 200, as was previously the case), which at the moment corresponds to the number of CPUs. This is appropriate for most users. However, if your sources reside on a network file system, increasing this value may yield better analysis-time performance when disk caches are cold.

Android

  • Fixed missing debug symbols when building native code with --compilation_mode=dbg that target Android ARM architectures by adding the -g flag.

C++

  • Added --incompatible_disable_legacy_flags_cc_toolchain_api to deprecate legacy cc_toolchain Starlark API for legacy CROSSTOOL fields. Tracking issue is #6434. Migration docs are on the bazel website.

  • Runfiles in cc_test: the C++ runfiles library (@bazel_tools//tools/cpp/runfiles) can now create Runfiles objects for tests. See //tools/cpp/runfiles/runfiles_src.h (in the Bazel source tree) for documentation.

  • :cc_binary link action no longer hardcodes -static-libgcc for toolchains that support embedded runtimes (guarded by --experimental_dont_emit_static_libgcc temporarily).

  • The flag --experimental_enable_cc_configuration_make_variables is removed, use --incompatible_disable_cc_configuration_make_variables instead.

Java

  • If the --javabase flag is unset, Bazel locates a JDK using the JAVA_HOME environment variable and searching the PATH. If no JDK is found --javabase will be empty, and builds targeting Java will not be supported. Previously Bazel would fall back to using the embedded JDK as a --javabase, but this is no longer default behaviour. A JDK should be explicitly installed instead to enable Java development.

Code Coverage

  • LcovMerger was renamed to CoverageOutputGenerator.

  • Faster coverage collection for gcc compiled C++ code can now be tested by enabling it with --experimental_cc_coverage.

Other Changes

  • Add --apple_compiler and --apple_grte_top options. These provide the equivalent of --compiler / --grte_top for the toolchain configured in --apple_crosstool_top.

  • There is now a same_pkg_direct_rdeps query function. See the query documentation for more details.

  • Propagating remote errors to the user even if --verbose_failures=false is set.

  • Add number of configured targets to analysis phase status output.

  • Bazel will now check stderr instead of stdout to decide if it is outputting to a terminal. --isatty is deprecated, use --is_stderr_atty instead.

Future Changes

Thank you to our contributors!

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Andreas Herrmann, Andreas Hippler, Benjamin Peterson, David Ostrovsky, Ed Baunton, George Gensure, Igal Tabachnik, Jason Gavris, Loo Rong Jie, rmalik, and Yannic Bonenberger

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release!

Release 0.18.1 (2018-10-31)

Baseline: c062b1f1730f3562d5c16a037b374fc07dc8d9a2

Cherry picks:

   + 2834613f93f74e988c51cf27eac0e59c79ff3b8f:
     Include also ext jars in the bootclasspath jar.
   + 2579b791c023a78a577e8cb827890139d6fb7534:
     Fix toolchain_java9 on --host_javabase=<jdk9> after
     7eb9ea150fb889a93908d96896db77d5658e5005
   + faaff7fa440939d4367f284ee268225a6f40b826:
     Release notes: fix markdown
   + b073a18e3fac05e647ddc6b45128a6158b34de2c:
     Fix NestHost length computation Fixes #5987
   + bf6a63d64a010f4c363d218e3ec54dc4dc9d8f34:
     Fixes #6219. Don't rethrow any remote cache failures on either
     download or upload, only warn. Added more tests.
   + c1a7b4c574f956c385de5c531383bcab2e01cadd:
     Fix broken IdlClassTest on Bazel's CI.
   + 71926bc25b3b91fcb44471e2739b89511807f96b:
     Fix the Xcode version detection which got broken by the upgrade
     to Xcode 10.0.
   + 86a8217d12263d598e3a1baf2c6aa91b2e0e2eb5:
     Temporarily restore processing of workspace-wide tools/bazel.rc
     file.
   + 914b4ce14624171a97ff8b41f9202058f10d15b2:
     Windows: Fix Precondition check for addDynamicInputLinkOptions
   + e025726006236520f7e91e196b9e7f139e0af5f4:
     Update turbine

Important changes:

  • Fix regression #6219, remote cache failures

Release 0.18.0 (2018-10-15)

Baseline: c062b1f1730f3562d5c16a037b374fc07dc8d9a2

Cherry picks:

   + 2834613f93f74e988c51cf27eac0e59c79ff3b8f:
     Include also ext jars in the bootclasspath jar.
   + 2579b791c023a78a577e8cb827890139d6fb7534:
     Fix toolchain_java9 on --host_javabase=<jdk9> after
     7eb9ea150fb889a93908d96896db77d5658e5005
   + faaff7fa440939d4367f284ee268225a6f40b826:
     Release notes: fix markdown
   + b073a18e3fac05e647ddc6b45128a6158b34de2c:
     Fix NestHost length computation Fixes #5987
   + bf6a63d64a010f4c363d218e3ec54dc4dc9d8f34:
     Fixes #6219. Don't rethrow any remote cache failures on either
     download or upload, only warn. Added more tests.
   + c1a7b4c574f956c385de5c531383bcab2e01cadd:
     Fix broken IdlClassTest on Bazel's CI.
   + 71926bc25b3b91fcb44471e2739b89511807f96b:
     Fix the Xcode version detection which got broken by the upgrade
     to Xcode 10.0.
   + 86a8217d12263d598e3a1baf2c6aa91b2e0e2eb5:
     Temporarily restore processing of workspace-wide tools/bazel.rc
     file.

General changes

  • New bazelrc file list. If you need to keep both the old and new lists of .rc files active concurrently to support multiple versions of Bazel, you can import the old file location into the new list using try-import. This imports a file if it exists and silently exits if it does not. You can use this method to account for a user file that may or may not exist

  • .bazelignore is now fully functional.

  • The startup flag --host_javabase has been renamed to --server_javabase to avoid confusion with the build flag --host_javabase.

Android

  • The Android resource processing pipeline now supports persistence via worker processes. Enable it with --persistent_android_resource_processor. We have observed a 50% increase in build speed for clean local builds and up to 150% increase in build speed for incremental local builds.

C++

  • In-memory package //tools/defaults has been removed (controlled by --incompatible_disable_tools_defaults_package flag). Please see migration instructions and migrate soon, the flag will be flipped in Bazel 0.19, and the legacy behavior will be removed in Bazel 0.20.

  • Late bound option defaults (typical example was the --compiler flag, when it was not specified, it’s value was computed using the CROSSTOOL) are removed (controlled by --incompatible_disable_late_bound_option_defaults flag). Please see migration instructions and migrate soon, the flag will be flipped in Bazel 0.19, and the legacy behavior will be removed in Bazel 0.20.

  • Depsets are no longer accepted in user_compile_flags and user_link_flags in the C++ toolchain API (controlled by --incompatible_disable_depset_in_cc_user_flags flag) affects C++ users. Please see migration instructions and migrate soon, the flag will be flipped in Bazel 0.19, and the legacy behavior will be removed in Bazel 0.20.

  • CROSSTOOL is no longer consulted when selecting C++ toolchain (controlled by --incompatible_disable_cc_toolchain_label_from_crosstool_proto flag). Please see migration instructions and migrate soon, the flag will be flipped in Bazel 0.19, and the legacy behavior will be removed in Bazel 0.20.

  • You can now use toolchain_identifier attribute on cc_toolchain to pair it with CROSSTOOL toolchain.

  • C++ specific Make variables are no longer passed from the CppConfiguration, but from the C++ toolchain (controlled by --incompatible_disable_cc_configuration_make_variables flag). Please see migration instructions and migrate soon, the flag will be flipped in Bazel 0.19, and the legacy behavior will be removed in Bazel 0.20.

  • Skylark api accessing C++ toolchain in ctx.fragments.cpp is removed (controlled by --incompatible_disable_legacy_cpp_toolchain_skylark_api flag). Please migrate soon, the flag will be flipped in Bazel 0.19, and the legacy behavior will be removed in Bazel 0.20.

  • cc_binary link action no longer hardcodes -static-libgcc for toolchains that support embedded runtimes (guarded by --experimental_dont_emit_static_libgcc temporarily). Proper deprecation using --incompatible flags will follow.

Java

  • Future versions of Bazel will require a locally installed JDK for Java development. Previously Bazel would fall back to using the embedded --server_javabase if no JDK as available. Pass --incompatible_never_use_embedded_jdk_for_javabase to disable the legacy behaviour.

  • --javacopt= no longer affects compilations of tools that are executed during the build; use --host_javacopt= to change javac flags in the host configuration.

Objective C

  • objc_library now supports the module_name attribute.

Skylark

Windows

  • --windows_exe_launcher is deprecated, this flag will be removed soon. Please make sure you are not using it.

  • Bazel now supports the symlink runfiles tree on Windows with --experimental_enable_runfiles flag. For more details, see this doc.

Other Changes

  • A new experimental option --experimental_ui_deduplicate has been added. It causes the UI to attempt to deduplicate messages from actions to keep the console output cleaner.

  • Add --modify_execution_info, a flag to customize action execution info.

  • Add ExecutionInfo to aquery output for ExecutionInfoSpecifier actions.

  • When computing --instrumentation_filter, end filter patterns with “[/:]” to match non-top-level packages exactly and treat top-level targets consistently.

  • Added the bazel info server_log command, which obtains the main Bazel server log file path. This can help debug Bazel issues.

  • aapt shrink resources now properly respect filter configurations.

Release 0.17.2 (2018-09-21)

Baseline: aa118ca818baf722aede0bc48d0a17584fa45b6e

Cherry picks:
   + 0e0462589528154cb5160411991075a2000b5452:
     Update checker framework dataflow and javacutil versions
   + 3987300d6651cf0e6e91b395696afac6913a7d66:
     Stop using --release in versioned java_toolchains
   + 438b2773b8c019afa46be470b90bcf70ede7f2ef:
     make_deb: Add new empty line in the end of conffiles file
   + 504401791e0a0e7e3263940e9e127f74956e7806:
     Properly mark configuration files in the Debian package.
   + 9ed9d8ac4347408d15c8fce7c9c07e5c8e658b30:
     Add flag
     --incompatible_symlinked_sandbox_expands_tree_artifacts_in_runfil
     es_tree.
   + 22d761ab42dfb1b131f1facbf490ccdb6c17b89c:
     Update protobuf to 3.6.1 -- add new files
   + 27303d79c38f2bfa3b64ee7cd7a6ef03a9a87842:
     Update protobuf to 3.6.1 -- update references
   + ddc97ed6b0367eb443e3e09a28d10e65179616ab:
     Update protobuf to 3.6.1 -- remove 3.6.0 sources
   + ead1002d3803fdfd4ac68b4b4872076b19d511a2:
     Fix protobuf in the WORKSPACE
   + 12dcd35ef7a26d690589b0fbefb1f20090cbfe15:
     Revert "Update to JDK 10 javac"
   + 7eb9ea150fb889a93908d96896db77d5658e5005:
     Automated rollback of
     https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/808ec9ff9b5cec14f23a4b
     a106bc5249cacc8c54 and
     https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/4c9149d558161e7d3e363f
     b697f5852bc5742a36 and some manual merging.
   + 4566a428c5317d87940aeacfd65f1018340e52b6:
     Fix tests on JDK 9 and 10
   + 1e9f0aa89dad38eeab0bd40e95e689be2ab6e5e5:
     Fix more tests on JDK 9 and 10
   + a572c1cbc8c26f625cab6716137e2d57d05cfdf3:
     Add ubuntu1804_nojava, ubuntu1804_java9, ubuntu1804_java10 to
     postsubmit.
   + 29f1de099e4f6f0f50986aaa4374fc5fb7744ee8:
     Disable Android shell tests on the "nojava" platform.
   + b495eafdc2ab380afe533514b3bcd7d5b30c9935:
     Update bazel_toolchains to latest release.
   + 9323c57607d37f9c949b60e293b573584906da46:
     Windows: fix writing java.log
   + 1aba9ac4b4f68b69f2d91e88cfa8e5dcc7cb98c2:
     Automated rollback of commit
     de22ab0582760dc95f33e217e82a7b822378f625.
   + 2579b791c023a78a577e8cb827890139d6fb7534:
     Fix toolchain_java9 on --host_javabase=<jdk9> after
     7eb9ea150fb889a93908d96896db77d5658e5005
   + 2834613f93f74e988c51cf27eac0e59c79ff3b8f:
     Include also ext jars in the bootclasspath jar.
   + fdb09a260dead1e1169f94584edc837349a4f4a5:
     Release 0.17.1 (2018-09-14)
   + 1d956c707e1c843896ac58a341c335c9c149073d:
     Do not fail the build when gcov is not installed
   + 2e677fb6b8f309b63558eb13294630a91ee0cd33:
     Ignore unrecognized VM options in desugar.sh, such as the JVM 9
     flags to silence warnings.

Important changes:

  • In the future, Bazel will expand tree artifacts in runfiles, too, which causes the sandbox to link each file individually into the sandbox directory, instead of symlinking the entire directory. In this release, the behavior is not enabled by default yet. Please try it out via --incompatible_symlinked_sandbox_expands_tree_artifacts_in_runfile s_tree and let us know if it causes issues. If everything looks good, this behavior will become the default in a following release.

Release 0.17.1 (2018-09-14)

Baseline: aa118ca818baf722aede0bc48d0a17584fa45b6e

Cherry picks:
   + 0e0462589528154cb5160411991075a2000b5452:
     Update checker framework dataflow and javacutil versions
   + 3987300d6651cf0e6e91b395696afac6913a7d66:
     Stop using --release in versioned java_toolchains
   + 438b2773b8c019afa46be470b90bcf70ede7f2ef:
     make_deb: Add new empty line in the end of conffiles file
   + 504401791e0a0e7e3263940e9e127f74956e7806:
     Properly mark configuration files in the Debian package.
   + 9ed9d8ac4347408d15c8fce7c9c07e5c8e658b30:
     Add flag
     --incompatible_symlinked_sandbox_expands_tree_artifacts_in_runfil
     es_tree.
   + 22d761ab42dfb1b131f1facbf490ccdb6c17b89c:
     Update protobuf to 3.6.1 -- add new files
   + 27303d79c38f2bfa3b64ee7cd7a6ef03a9a87842:
     Update protobuf to 3.6.1 -- update references
   + ddc97ed6b0367eb443e3e09a28d10e65179616ab:
     Update protobuf to 3.6.1 -- remove 3.6.0 sources
   + ead1002d3803fdfd4ac68b4b4872076b19d511a2:
     Fix protobuf in the WORKSPACE
   + 12dcd35ef7a26d690589b0fbefb1f20090cbfe15:
     Revert "Update to JDK 10 javac"
   + 7eb9ea150fb889a93908d96896db77d5658e5005:
     Automated rollback of
     https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/808ec9ff9b5cec14f23a4b
     a106bc5249cacc8c54 and
     https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/4c9149d558161e7d3e363f
     b697f5852bc5742a36 and some manual merging.
   + 4566a428c5317d87940aeacfd65f1018340e52b6:
     Fix tests on JDK 9 and 10
   + 1e9f0aa89dad38eeab0bd40e95e689be2ab6e5e5:
     Fix more tests on JDK 9 and 10
   + a572c1cbc8c26f625cab6716137e2d57d05cfdf3:
     Add ubuntu1804_nojava, ubuntu1804_java9, ubuntu1804_java10 to
     postsubmit.
   + 29f1de099e4f6f0f50986aaa4374fc5fb7744ee8:
     Disable Android shell tests on the "nojava" platform.
   + b495eafdc2ab380afe533514b3bcd7d5b30c9935:
     Update bazel_toolchains to latest release.
   + 9323c57607d37f9c949b60e293b573584906da46:
     Windows: fix writing java.log
   + 1aba9ac4b4f68b69f2d91e88cfa8e5dcc7cb98c2:
     Automated rollback of commit
     de22ab0582760dc95f33e217e82a7b822378f625.
   + 2579b791c023a78a577e8cb827890139d6fb7534:
     Fix toolchain_java9 on --host_javabase=<jdk9> after
     7eb9ea150fb889a93908d96896db77d5658e5005
   + 2834613f93f74e988c51cf27eac0e59c79ff3b8f:
     Include also ext jars in the bootclasspath jar.

Incompatible changes:

  • Loading @bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:git_repositories.bzl no longer works. Load @bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:git.bzl instead.
  • If the same artifact is generated by two distinct but identical actions, and a downstream action has both those actions' outputs in its inputs, the artifact will now appear twice in the downstream action's inputs. If this causes problems in Skylark actions, you can use the uniquify=True argument in Args.add_args.
  • If the same artifact is generated by two distinct but identical actions, and a downstream action has both those actions' outputs in its inputs, the artifact will now appear twice in the downstream action's inputs. If this causes problems in Skylark actions, you can use the uniquify=True argument in Args.add_args.
  • Labels in C++ rules' linkopts attribute are not expanded anymore unless they are wrapped, e.g: $(location //foo:bar)
  • If the same artifact is generated by two distinct but identical actions, and a downstream action has both those actions' outputs in its inputs, the artifact will now appear twice in the downstream action's inputs. If this causes problems in Skylark actions, you can use the uniquify=True argument in Args.add_args.
  • New bazelrc file list.
  • Windows: when BAZEL_SH envvar is not defined and Bazel searches for a suitable bash.exe, Bazel will no longer look for Git Bash and no longer recommend installing it as a Bash implementation. See issue #5751.
  • New bazelrc file list.

New features:

  • The aquery command now supports --output=text.
  • Java, runfiles: the Java runfiles library is now in @bazel_tools//tools/java/runfiles. The old target (@bazel_tools//tools/runfiles:java-runfiles) is deprecated and will be removed in Bazel 0.18.0.
  • Java, runfiles: the Java runfiles library is now in @bazel_tools//tools/java/runfiles. The old target (@bazel_tools//tools/runfiles:java-runfiles) is deprecated and will be removed in Bazel 0.19.0 (not 0.18.0, as stated earlier).

Important changes:

  • Allow @ in package names.
  • Remove support for java_runtime_suite; use alias() together with select() instead.
  • Python wrapper scripts for MSVC are removed.
  • [JavaInfo] Outputs are merged in java_common.merge().
  • Faster analysis by improved parallelization.
  • --experimental_shortened_obj_file_path is removed.
  • Introduce the --remote_cache_proxy flag, which allows for remote http caching to connect via a unix domain socket.
  • No longer define G3_VERSION_INFO for c++ linkstamp compiles, as it was a duplicate of G3_TARGET_NAME.
  • Added support for Android NDK r17. The default STL is now libc++, and support for targeting mips, mips64 and ARMv5 (armeabi) has been removed.
  • Add aquery command to get analysis time information about the action graph.
  • Fixed compatibility with aar_import when using aapt2. AAPT2 is now supported for Android app builds without resource shrinking. To use it, pass the --android_aapt=aapt2 flag or define android_binary.aapt_version=aapt2.
  • Code coverage is collected for Java binaries invoked from sh_test.
  • java_common.compile creates the native headers jar accesible via JavaInfo.outputs.native_headers.
  • Deleting deprecated no-op flag --show_package_location
  • The JDK shipped with Bazel was updated to JDK10.
  • Rename the startup flag --host_javabase to --server_javabase to avoid confusion with the build flag --host_javabase
  • newly added options --experimental_repository_hash_file and --experimental_verify_repository_rules allow to verify for repositories the directory generated against pre-recorded hashes. See documentation for those options.
  • Removed the gen_jars output group
  • --subcommands can now take a “pretty_print” value (“--subcommands=pretty_print”) to print the arguments of subcommands as a list for easier reading.
  • follow-up to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/1ac359743176e659e9c7472 645e3142f3c44b9e8
  • A rule error is now thrown if a Skylark rule implementation function returns multiple providers of the same type.
  • When using Bazel's remote execution feature and Bazel has to fallback to local execution for an action, Bazel used non-sandboxed local execution until now. From this release on, you can use the new flag --remote_local_fallback_strategy= to tell Bazel which strategy to use in that case.
  • Execution Log Parser can now, when printing it out, filter the log by runner type
  • A rule error is now thrown if a Skylark rule implementation function returns multiple providers of the same type.
  • Removed the gen_jars output group
  • Removed the gen_jars output group
  • Set --defer_param_files to default to true.
  • Sort attribute lists in proto-form query output to fix non-deterministic genquery output.
  • Replace 0/1 with False/True for testonly attribute
  • bazel now supports a .bazelignore file specifying directories to be ignored; however, these directories still have to be well founded and, in particular, may not contain symlink cycles.
  • Add more detailed reporting of the differences between startup options.
  • update data binding to 3.2.0
  • For Android incremental dexing actions, Bazel now persists its DexBuilder process across individual actions. From our benchmarks, this results in a 1.2x speedup for clean local builds.
  • The standard xcode_VERSION feature now always uses exactly two components in the version, even if you specify --xcode_version with more or fewer than two.
  • A rule error will be thrown if a Skylark rule implementation function returns multiple providers of the same type. Try the --incompatible_disallow_conflicting_providers flag to ensure your code is forward-compatible.
  • Removed notion of FULLY_STATIC linking mode from C++ rules.
  • In documentation, we've renamed Skylark into Starlark.
  • Execution Log Parser can now, when printing it out, reorder the actions for easier text diffs
  • Linkstamps are no longer recompiled after server restart.
  • Use VanillaJavaBuilder and disable header compilation in toolchain_hostjdk8. The default toolchain will soon drop compatibility with JDK 8. Using a JDK 8 host_javabase will only be supported when using ‘VanillaJavaBuilder’ (which does not support Error Prone, Strict Java Deps, or reduced classpaths) and with header compilation disabled.
  • In the future, Bazel will expand tree artifacts in runfiles, too, which causes the sandbox to link each file individually into the sandbox directory, instead of symlinking the entire directory. In this release, the behavior is not enabled by default yet. Please try it out via --incompatible_symlinked_sandbox_expands_tree_artifacts_in_runfile s_tree and let us know if it causes issues. If everything looks good, this behavior will become the default in a following release.

Release 0.16.1 (2018-08-13)

Baseline: 4f64b77a3dd8e4ccdc8077051927985f9578a3a5

Cherry picks:
   + 4c9a0c82d308d5df5c524e2a26644022ff525f3e:
     reduce the size of bazel's embedded jdk
   + d3228b61f633cdc5b3f740b641a0836f1bd79abd:
     remote: limit number of open tcp connections by default. Fixes
     #5491
   + 8ff87c164f48dbabe3b20becd00dde90c50d46f5:
     Fix autodetection of linker flags
   + c4622ac9205d2f1b42dac8c598e83113d39e7f11:
     Fix autodetection of -z linker flags
   + 10219659f58622d99034288cf9f491865f818218:
     blaze_util_posix.cc: fix order of #define
   + ab1f269017171223932e0da9bb539e8a17dd99ed:
     blaze_util_freebsd.cc: include path.h explicitly
   + 68e92b45a37f2142c768a56eb7ecfa484b8b22df:
     openjdk: update macOS openjdk image. Fixes #5532
   + f45c22407e6b00fcba706eb62141cb9036bd38d7:
     Set the start time of binary and JSON profiles to zero correctly.
   + bca1912853086b8e9a28a85a1b144ec0dc9717cc:
     remote: fix race on download error. Fixes #5047
   + 3842bd39e10612c7eef36c6048407e81bcd0a8fb:
     jdk: use parallel old gc and disable compact strings
   + 6bd0bdf5140525cb33dc2db068b210261d9df271:
     Add objc-fully-link to the list of actions that require the
     apple_env feature. This fixes apple_static_library functionality.
   + f330439fb970cfa17c70fc59c1458bb1c31c9522:
     Add the action_names_test_files target to the OSS version of
     tools/buils_defs/cc/BUILD.
   + d215b64362c4ede61c8ba87b5f3f57bce4785d15:
     Fix StackOverflowError on Windows. Fixes #5730
   + 366da4cf27b7f957ef39f89206db77fa2ac289df:
     In java_rules_skylark depend on the javabase through
     //tools/jdk:current_java_runtime
   + 30c601dc13d9e1b40a57434c022c888c7578cc56:
     Don't use @local_jdk for jni headers
   + c56699db5f9173739ba3ac55aa9fa69b6457a99b:
     'DumpPlatformClasspath' now dumps the current JDK's default
     platform classpath

This release is a patch release that contains fixes for several serious regressions that were found after the release of Bazel 0.16.0.

In particular this release resolves the following issues:

  • Bazel crashes with a StackOverflowError on Windows (See #5730)
  • Bazel requires a locally installed JDK and does not fall back to the embedded JDK (See #5744)
  • Bazel fails to build for Homebrew on macOS El Capitan (See #5777)
  • A regression in apple_static_library (See #5683)

Please watch our blog for a more detailed release announcement.

Release 0.16.0 (2018-07-31)

Baseline: 4f64b77a3dd8e4ccdc8077051927985f9578a3a5

Cherry picks:
   + 4c9a0c82d308d5df5c524e2a26644022ff525f3e:
     reduce the size of bazel's embedded jdk
   + d3228b61f633cdc5b3f740b641a0836f1bd79abd:
     remote: limit number of open tcp connections by default. Fixes
     #5491
   + 8ff87c164f48dbabe3b20becd00dde90c50d46f5:
     Fix autodetection of linker flags
   + c4622ac9205d2f1b42dac8c598e83113d39e7f11:
     Fix autodetection of -z linker flags
   + 10219659f58622d99034288cf9f491865f818218:
     blaze_util_posix.cc: fix order of #define
   + ab1f269017171223932e0da9bb539e8a17dd99ed:
     blaze_util_freebsd.cc: include path.h explicitly
   + 68e92b45a37f2142c768a56eb7ecfa484b8b22df:
     openjdk: update macOS openjdk image. Fixes #5532
   + f45c22407e6b00fcba706eb62141cb9036bd38d7:
     Set the start time of binary and JSON profiles to zero correctly.
   + bca1912853086b8e9a28a85a1b144ec0dc9717cc:
     remote: fix race on download error. Fixes #5047
   + 3842bd39e10612c7eef36c6048407e81bcd0a8fb:
     jdk: use parallel old gc and disable compact strings

Incompatible changes:

  • The $(ANDROID_CPU) Make variable is not available anymore. Use $(TARGET_CPU) after an Android configuration transition instead.
  • The $(JAVA_TRANSLATIONS) Make variable is not supported anymore.
  • Skylark structs (using struct()) may no longer have to_json and to_proto overridden.
  • The mobile-install --skylark_incremental_res flag is no longer available, use the --skylark flag instead.

New features:

  • android_local_test now takes advantage of Robolectric's binary resource processing which allows for faster tests.
  • Allow @ in package names.

Important changes:

  • Option --glibc is removed, toolchain selection relies solely on --cpu and --compiler options.
  • Build support for enabling cross binary FDO optimization.
  • The --distdir option is no longer experimental. This option allows to specify additional directories to look for files before trying to fetch them from the network. Files from any of the distdirs are only used if a checksum for the file is specified and both, the filename and the checksum, match.
  • Java coverage works now with multiple jobs.
  • Flip default value of --experimental_shortened_obj_file_path to true, Bazel now generates short object file path by default.
  • New rules for importing Android dependencies: aar_import_external and aar_maven_import_external. aar_import_external enables specifying external AAR dependencies using a list of HTTP URLs for the artifact. aar_maven_import_external enables specifying external AAR dependencies using the artifact coordinate and a list of server URLs.
  • The BAZEL_JAVAC_OPTS environment variable allows arguments, e.g., “-J-Xmx2g”, may be passed to the javac compiler during bootstrap build. This is helpful if your system chooses too small of a max heap size for the Java compiler during the bootstrap build.
  • --noexpand_configs_in_place is deprecated.
  • A tool to parse the Bazel execution log.
  • Support for LIPO has been fully removed.
  • Remove support for --discard_actions_after_execution.
  • Add --materialize_param_files flag to write parameter files even when actions are executed remotely.
  • Windows default system bazelrc is read from the user's ProgramData if present.
  • --[no]allow_undefined_configs no longer exists, passing undefined configs is an error.
  • In remote caching we limit the number of open TCP connections to 100 by default. The number can be adjusted by specifying the --remote_max_connections flag.

Release 0.15.0 (2018-06-26)

Baseline: b93ae42e8e693ccbcc387841a17f58259966fa38

Cherry picks:
   + 4b80f2455e7e49a95f3a4c9102a67a57dad52207:
     Add option to enable Docker sandboxing.
   + 6b1635279e8b33dc1ac505ac81825e38f8797a14:
     Allow disabling the simple blob caches via CLI flag overrides.
   + 4ec0a7524913ab2c4641368e3f8c09b347351a08:
     Use BUILD.bazel instead of BUILD for external projects

Incompatible changes:

  • Bazel now always runs binaries in with “bazel run” in interactive mode. The “--nodirect_run” command line option is now a no-op.
  • “bazel run --noas_test” is not supported anymore.
  • Indentation on the first line of a file was previously ignored. This is now fixed.

New features:

Important changes:

  • Bazel now allows almost all 7-bit ASCII characters in labels.
  • Remove vestigial java_plugin.data attribute
  • Bazel supports including select Java 8 APIs into Android apps targeting pre-Nougat Android devices with --experimental_desugar_java8_libs
  • Flag --incompatible_disable_glob_tracking is removed.
  • SkyQuery's rbuildfiles now returns targets corresponding to broken packages.
  • Introduce build support for providing cache prefetch hints.
  • Update the skylark DefaultInfo documentation to spell out runfiles, data_runfiles and default_runfiles
  • An internal action for symlinking runfiles will use Command instead of a Spawns. This should have no functional chages; the only user visible consequence should be that the internal action is no longer be included in statistics when calculating processes count.
  • --batch is deprecated
  • execution strategies line no longer handles differently the case where all processes have the same strategy.
  • The --experimental_remote_spawn_cache flag is now enabled by default, and remote caching no longer needs --*_strategy=remote flags (it will fail if they are specified).
  • android_binary.aapt_version=‘aapt2’ now supports en_XA and ar_XB
  • Added --apple_enable_auto_dsym_dbg flag.
  • non_propagated_deps has been removed from objc_library and apple_binary.
  • For Android projects, Bazel now supports building fonts as resources. See https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/fonts-in-xml for more information on the feature.
  • With --incompatible_no_support_tools_in_action_inputs enabled, Skylark action inputs are no longer scanned for tools. Move any such inputs to the newly introduced ‘tools’ attribute.

Release 0.14.1 (2018-06-08)

Baseline: 5c3f5c9be7fa40d4fb3c35756891fab8483ca406

Cherry picks:
   + f96f037f8f77335dc444844abcc31a372a3e1849:
     Windows, Java launcher: Support jar files under different drives
   + ff8162d01409db34893de98bd840a51c5f13e257:
     sh_configure.bzl: FreeBSD is also a known platform
   + 7092ed324137f03fcd34856bdb0595a1bdec3069:
     Remove unneeded exec_compatible_with from local_sh_toolchain
   + 57bc201346e61c62a921c1cbf32ad24f185c10c9:
     Do not autodetect C++ toolchain when
     BAZEL_DO_NOT_DETECT_CPP_TOOLCHAIN=1 is present
   + 35a78c09cf2fbfc3de9c124d2142e3d72aac4348:
     remote: recursively delete incomplete downloaded output
     directory.
   + 3c9cd82b847f3ece8ec04b2029bd5e8ad0eb7502:
     distfile: pack the archives needed later in the build
   + 27487c77387e457df18be3b6833697096d074eab:
     Slightly refactor SpawnAction to improve env handling
   + 1b333a2c37add9d04fe5bc5258ee4f73c93115e2:
     Fix Cpp{Compile,Link}Action environment and cache key computation
   + 3da8929963e9c70dff5d8859d6e988e6e7f4f9d7:
     Make SymlinkTreeAction properly use the configuration's
     environment
   + eca7b81cf8cc51e1fe56e5ed7d4ad5cd1668a17a:
     Add a missing dependency from checker framework dataflow to
     javacutils
   + 10a4de954c2061258d8222961fc3bd39516db49d:
     Release 0.14.0 (2018-06-01)
   + 4b80f2455e7e49a95f3a4c9102a67a57dad52207:
     Add option to enable Docker sandboxing.
   + 6b1635279e8b33dc1ac505ac81825e38f8797a14:
     Allow disabling the simple blob caches via CLI flag overrides.

Bug fix for #5336 Bug fix fot #5308

Release 0.14.0 (2018-06-01)

Baseline: 5c3f5c9be7fa40d4fb3c35756891fab8483ca406

Cherry picks:
   + f96f037f8f77335dc444844abcc31a372a3e1849:
     Windows, Java launcher: Support jar files under different drives
   + ff8162d01409db34893de98bd840a51c5f13e257:
     sh_configure.bzl: FreeBSD is also a known platform
   + 7092ed324137f03fcd34856bdb0595a1bdec3069:
     Remove unneeded exec_compatible_with from local_sh_toolchain
   + 57bc201346e61c62a921c1cbf32ad24f185c10c9:
     Do not autodetect C++ toolchain when
     BAZEL_DO_NOT_DETECT_CPP_TOOLCHAIN=1 is present
   + 35a78c09cf2fbfc3de9c124d2142e3d72aac4348:
     remote: recursively delete incomplete downloaded output
     directory.
   + 3c9cd82b847f3ece8ec04b2029bd5e8ad0eb7502:
     distfile: pack the archives needed later in the build
   + 27487c77387e457df18be3b6833697096d074eab:
     Slightly refactor SpawnAction to improve env handling
   + 1b333a2c37add9d04fe5bc5258ee4f73c93115e2:
     Fix Cpp{Compile,Link}Action environment and cache key computation
   + 3da8929963e9c70dff5d8859d6e988e6e7f4f9d7:
     Make SymlinkTreeAction properly use the configuration's
     environment
   + eca7b81cf8cc51e1fe56e5ed7d4ad5cd1668a17a:
     Add a missing dependency from checker framework dataflow to
     javacutils

Incompatible changes:

  • Add --incompatible_disallow_legacy_javainfo flag.
  • Added flag --incompatible_disallow_old_style_args_add to help migrate from args.add() to args.add_all() / args.add_joined() where appropriate.

New features:

  • Bash,runfiles: use the new platform-independent library in @bazel_tools//tools/bash/runfiles to access runfiles (data-dependencies). See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/tools/bash/runfile s/runfiles.bash for usage information.
  • TemplateVariableInfo can now be constructed from Skylark.
  • The java_host_runtime_alias rule is now implemented in Java.

Important changes:

  • Flip default value of --experimental_shortened_obj_file_path to true, Bazel now generates short object file path by default.
  • Introduce fdo_profile rule that allows architecture-sensitive specification of fdo profiles.
  • canonicalize-flags no longer reorders the flags
  • CppRules: optional_compiler_flag was removed from CROSSTOOL, use features instead.
  • Labels of the form ////foo are disallowed.
  • The / operator is deprecated in favor of // (floor integer division). Try the --incompatible_disallow_slash_operator flag to ensure your code is forward-compatible.
  • Flip default value of --experimental_shortened_obj_file_path to true, Bazel now generates short object file path by default.
  • Exposed “mnemonic” and “env” fields on skylark “Action” objects.
  • Removed flag --incompatible_disallow_toplevel_if_statement.
  • Remove vestigial ‘deps’ and ‘data’ attributes from proto_lang_toolchain
  • Args objects (ctx.actions.args()) have new methods add_all() and add_joined() for building command lines using depsets.
  • FileType is deprecated and will be removed soon. Try the --incompatible_disallow_filetype flag to ensure your code is forward-compatible.
  • Introduce absolute_path_profile attribute that allows fdo_profile to accept absolute paths.
  • Support two-arg overloads for ctx.actions.args (eg. args.add(“--foo”, val))
  • Introduce ‘tools’ attribute to ctx.actions.run.
  • Fixed error message for proguard_apply_dictionary.
  • “bazel run” now lets one run interactive binaries. The BUILD_WORKSPACE_DIRECTORY and BUILD_WORKING_DIRECTORY environment variables indicate the working directory and the workspace root of the Bazel invocation. Tests are provided with an approximation of the official test environment.
  • repository rules are no longer restricted to return None.
  • Add --high_priority_workers flag.
  • CppRules: Feature configuration can be created from Skylark
  • Adds new-style JavaInfo provider constructor.
  • Make java_common.compile now uses java_toolchain javacopts by default; explicitly retrieving them using java_common.default_javac_opts is unnecessary.
  • CppRules: C++ command lines and env variables for C++ actions can be retrieved from feature configuration.
  • Skylark rule definitions may advertise providers that targets of the rule must propagate.
  • Bazel now supports running actions inside Docker containers. To use this feature, run “bazel build --spawn_strategy=docker --experimental_docker_image=myimage:latest”.
  • Remote execution works for Windows binaries with launchers.
  • Fixing start/end lib expansion for linking. There were many cases where archive files were still being used with toolchains that support start/end lib. This change consolidates the places that make that decision so they can be more consistent.
  • Add support for reporting an error if android_test.binary_under_test contains incompatible versions of deps
  • We replaced the --experimental_local_disk_cache and --experimental_local_disk_cache_path flags into a single --disk_cache flag. Additionally, Bazel now tries to create the disk cache directory if it doesn't exist.
  • Save Blaze memory by not storing LinkerInput objects in LinkCommandLine
  • In the JavaInfo created by java_common.create_provider now includes both direct and transitive arguments in transitive_compile_time_jars and transitive_runtime_jars
  • Allow --worker_max_instances to take MnemonicName=value to specify max for each worker.
  • Allow java_toolchain.header_compiler to be an arbitrary executable

Release 0.13.1 (2018-05-23)

Baseline: fdee70e6e39b74bfd9144b1e350d2d8806386e05

Cherry picks:
   + f083e7623cd03e20ed216117c5ea8c8b4ec61948:
     windows: GetOutputRoot() returns GetHomeDir()
   + fa36d2f48965b127e8fd397348d16e991135bfb6:
     Automated rollback of commit
     4465dae23de989f1452e93d0a88ac2a289103dd9.
   + 4abd2babcc50900afd0271bf30dc64055f34e100:
     Add error message on empty public resources
   + 2c957575ff24c183d48ade4345a79ffa5bec3724:
     test-setup: remove leading "./" from test name
   + e6eaf251acb3b7054c8c5ced58a49c054b5f23b1:
     Sort entries by segment when building a parent node to prevent
     unordered directory structures.

Important changes:

  • Remote Execution: Fixes a regression that produces directories with unsorted file/directory lists

Release 0.13.0 (2018-04-30)

Baseline: fdee70e6e39b74bfd9144b1e350d2d8806386e05

Cherry picks:
   + f083e7623cd03e20ed216117c5ea8c8b4ec61948:
     windows: GetOutputRoot() returns GetHomeDir()
   + fa36d2f48965b127e8fd397348d16e991135bfb6:
     Automated rollback of commit
     4465dae23de989f1452e93d0a88ac2a289103dd9.
   + 4abd2babcc50900afd0271bf30dc64055f34e100:
     Add error message on empty public resources
   + 2c957575ff24c183d48ade4345a79ffa5bec3724:
     test-setup: remove leading "./" from test name

Incompatible changes:

  • Remove //tools/defaults:android_jar. Use @bazel_tools//tools/android:android_jar instead.

  • The flag --incompatible_show_all_print_messages is removed. Messages generated by print statements from any package will be displayed as DEBUG messages.

  • The --incompatible_disallow_uncalled_set_constructor flag is no longer available, the set constructoris completely removed from Skylark. Usedepset` instead.

  • Variables PACKAGE_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME are deprecated in favor of functions package_name() and repository_name().

    https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/lib/native.html#p ackage_name

  • BUILD_TIMESTAMP now contains seconds (and not milliseconds) since the epoch.

New features:

  • Strings have a new .elems() method, that provides an iterator on the characters of the string.
  • Now you can access three functions in windows_cc_configure.bzl by: load(“@bazel_tools/tools/cpp:windows_cc_configure.bzl”, “<function_name>”)

Important changes:

  • CppRules: Unified action_configs for static libraries

  • Remove support for blaze dump --vfs. It is no longer meaningful.

  • Enable dependency checking for aar_import targets.

  • internal_bootstrap_hack has been deprecated and removed.

  • Properly handle tree artifacts on the link command line coming from a cc_library dependency.

  • Allow C++ features to make proto_library emit smaller C++ code

  • The ‘j2objc’ configuration fragment is exposed to Skylark.

  • Remove the default content of the global bazelrc.

  • In int() function, do not auto-detect base if input starts with ‘0’.

  • Users can now pass --experimental_shortened_obj_file_path=true to have a shorter object file path, the object file paths (and all other related paths) will be constructed as following: If there's no two or more source files with the same base name:

    /<target_package_path>/_objs/<target_name>/<source_base _name>. otherwise:

    /<target_package_path>/_objs/<target_name>/N/<source_ba se_name>. N = the file?s order among the source files with the same basename, starts from 0.

  • Move (c/cxx)opts from legacy_compile_flags to user_compile_flags

  • CppRules: Remove optional_*_flag fields from CROSSTOOL, they are not used, and could be expressed using features.

  • Introduce --incompatible_disable_objc_provider_resources to turn off all resource-related fields of the Objc provider.

  • Removed the statement of “What does Bazel support?” as it's limiting/misleading. Added supported host OSes to “multi-platform” paragraph.

  • android_library AAR output now contains proguard.txt

  • Bazel now displays information about remote cache hits and execution strategies used in its UI after every build and test, and adds a corresponding line “process stats” to BuildToolLogs in BEP.

  • Print correct build result for builds with --aspects flag.

  • android_binary.manifest_merger is no longer supported.

Release 0.12.0 (2018-04-11)

Baseline: b33e5afa313322a7048044c44d854cbb666b988e

Cherry picks:
   + 369409995bd75eeb0683fd24f7585d2a90320796:
     Automated rollback of commit
     c2b332b45e6ea41a14ecbd3c5f30782bcdeec301.
   + dbf779869751cc893ba240402d352c6e70be2978:
     Emit SJD errors even if we don't know the label of a dependency
   + 4c3098cfa6f00f90c7530b6f40d3e93062931c1d:
     Android tools: remove mtime-modifications
   + a1068c44a700ec2cff84cbd12592e9bfea25d754:
     NDK cc_toolchains: include bundled runtime libraries in
     cc_toolchain.all_files
   + b1be5816ec1bf8e1172c1bed4f29b4e6c6bb7202:
     runfiles,Python: remove library from @bazel_tools
   + 0a4622012ff796429220fe57d3217f262cc208a8:
     Fix visibility of def_parser for remote builds
   + 3c5373c50c7c492842f8a468906eda2c0bc90787:
     Remove visibility attribute from
     //third_party/def_parser:def_parser
   + f54d7e5293cc40ce3507a9adef530e46ab817585:
     Enable bulk writes in the HttpBlobStore
   + 04ce86e8ba96630f89a436167b7f3a195c5e50e7:
     remote/http: properly complete user promise

Incompatible changes:

  • The order of dict-valued attributes is now the order in the BUILD file (or in the Skylark dict they were created from) and not lexicographically sorted.

New features:

  • The new “--direct_run” flag on “blaze run” lets one run interactive binaries.
  • “blaze run --direct_run” with tests now gives the test an approximation of the official test environment.
  • “blaze run --direct_run” now exports the BUILD_{WORKSPACE,WORKING}_DIRECTORY variables to tell the binary about the cwd of the client and the workspace root.
  • New Android device test rule: android_instrumentation_test.
  • Add option to dump the action graph to a file: ‘bazel dump --action_graph=/path/to/file’.
  • Pass tags from java_import_external rule to the generated java_import rule.
  • blaze query: use --proto:output_rule_attrs to filter for given attributes
  • Added Android NDK r15 support, including compatibility with Unified Headers.
  • Adds --ltobackendopt and --per_file_ltobackendopt for passing options to ThinLTO LTO backend compile actions only.

Important changes:

  • Fix how libraries to link is specified to archiver actions.
  • Fix how libraries_to_link are expanded in the archiver command line.
  • stop using --no-locals in android coverage builds
  • apple_binary can now generate dSYM outputs with the --apple_generate_dsym=true flag.
  • Fix FDO_STAMP_MACRO to only be set when fdoBuildStamp is not null.
  • Improved clarity of warning message for unsupported NDK revisions.
  • Add lint check for discouraging glob([“**/*.java”])
  • unifly lint glob([“**/*.java”]) message
  • Removed flags --incompatible_checked_arithmetic, --incompatible_dict_literal_has_no_duplicates, --incompatible_disallow_keyword_only_args, and --incompatible_comprehension_variables_do_not_leak.
  • Add “proto_source_root” flag to proto_library.
  • Updated default android_cpu value to armeabi-v7a
  • In skylark, print(target) now shows the provider keys of a target, as debug information.
  • The native http_archive rule is deprecated. Use the Skylark version available via load(“@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl”, “http_archive”) instead.
  • flaky_test_attempts supports the regex@attempts syntax, like runs_per_test.
  • Fixed include paths for NDK r13+ llvm-libc++ headers to ndk/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++/include and ndk/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++abi/include
  • --config flags now expand in place by default.
  • aar_import now sets java.transitive_exports.
  • repository_cache is no longer experimental and enabled by default.
  • BAZEL_LINKOPTS is now consulted when autoconfiguring c++ toolchain
  • The native git_repository rule is deprecated. Use the Skylark version available via load(“@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:git.bzl”, “git_repository”) instead.
  • Removed flag --incompatible_load_argument_is_label.
  • CcToolchain: Introduced action_config for “c++-link-transitive-dynamic-library”
  • Use bazel dump --action_graph=/path/to/action.proto --action_graph:targets://foo:bar,//foo:foo to filter for certain targets in the action graph dump.
  • Added Android NDK r16 support. Use --cxxopt='-std=c++11compile with the C++11 standard, and--android_crosstool_top=@androidndk//:toolchain-libcppto use thelibc++` STL.
  • Add a --build_event_publish_all_actions flag to allow all actions to be published via the BEP.
  • C++: Introduced --experimental_drop_fully_static_linking_mode
  • Removed cc_inc_library, please use cc_library instead
  • CppRules: cc_binary/cc_test now enable ‘static_linking_mode’ or ‘dynamic_linking_mode’.

Release 0.11.1 (2018-03-06)

Baseline: 00d781ae78a8bd51d3c61b621d79f0bb095aff9e

Cherry picks:
   + ea2d4c475febdbd59ca0e0ba46adc7be759f84e0:
     Update stub_finds_runfiles_test to be a real sh_test.
   + d855d8133f4efb73ebd5e82c54a9afb4c7565d46:
     java,runfiles: fix bugs in runfiles library
   + 56aeb04a064218b845ecc193d530c341c6ec854d:
     Fixing #4585: broken re-execution of orphaned actions.
   + cf3f81aef7c32019d70cbce218a64a03276268f0:
     remote: Add support for HTTP Basic Auth
   + 28bd997c1c8793973f63dcae4c22bbae49e7d8b7:
     Fixing test-setup.sh occasionally missing stdout/stderr, on
     systems where "tail --pid" is supported.
   + 109e4b4dc9e786e3a2d8d7cb245d18320dbe9216:
     Automated rollback of commit
     7e6837cc1d1aa4259f5c27ba3606b277b5f6c3e9.
   + b3d52b1b6d46a0f23cc91125c1d522e9d13433b4:
     Fix incorrect include directories when -no-canonical-prefixes is
     passed to clang
   + 1001141f0674ff4b611814edcb00a5183680ef4a:
     Roll forward of
     https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/3904ac33a983fd8faebba1
     b52bcac5a3ff942029
     (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/3904ac33a983fd8faebba
     1b52bcac5a3ff942029). Fix #4625 by running the test process in a
     sub-shell.
   + fc98b44b6181fa4c3efd8613d887970629468d74:
     android,windows: bugfix in aar_resources_extractor

Important changes:

  • Fixes regression building Android rules on Windows.

Release 0.11.0 (2018-02-23)

Baseline: 00d781ae78a8bd51d3c61b621d79f0bb095aff9e

Cherry picks:
   + ea2d4c475febdbd59ca0e0ba46adc7be759f84e0:
     Update stub_finds_runfiles_test to be a real sh_test.
   + d855d8133f4efb73ebd5e82c54a9afb4c7565d46:
     java,runfiles: fix bugs in runfiles library
   + 56aeb04a064218b845ecc193d530c341c6ec854d:
     Fixing #4585: broken re-execution of orphaned actions.
   + cf3f81aef7c32019d70cbce218a64a03276268f0:
     remote: Add support for HTTP Basic Auth
   + 28bd997c1c8793973f63dcae4c22bbae49e7d8b7:
     Fixing test-setup.sh occasionally missing stdout/stderr, on
     systems where "tail --pid" is supported.
   + 109e4b4dc9e786e3a2d8d7cb245d18320dbe9216:
     Automated rollback of commit
     7e6837cc1d1aa4259f5c27ba3606b277b5f6c3e9.
   + b3d52b1b6d46a0f23cc91125c1d522e9d13433b4:
     Fix incorrect include directories when -no-canonical-prefixes is
     passed to clang
   + 3904ac33a983fd8faebba1b52bcac5a3ff942029:
     Automated rollback of commit
     28bd997c1c8793973f63dcae4c22bbae49e7d8b7.
   + 1001141f0674ff4b611814edcb00a5183680ef4a:
     Roll forward of
     https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/3904ac33a983fd8faebba1
     b52bcac5a3ff942029
     (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/3904ac33a983fd8faebba
     1b52bcac5a3ff942029). Fix #4625 by running the test process in a
     sub-shell.

Incompatible changes:

  • ctx.fragments.jvm is not available anymore.

New features:

Important changes:

  • The --[no]experimental_disable_jvm command line option is not supported anymore.
  • Allow expanding TreeArtifacts for libraries_to_link
  • Proguarded Android binaries can be built with incremental dexing.
  • aar_import now supports assets.
  • Crash in OutputJar::Close has been fixed
  • generator_* attributes are nonconfigurable.
  • Introduces --[no]keep_state_after_build
  • Add support for merged object files needed for -flto-unit.
  • Fix how libraries to link is specified to archiver actions.
  • Replace //tools/defaults:android_jar with @bazel_tools//tools/android:android_jar. //tools/defaults:android_jar will be removed in a future release.
  • java_common.compile supports neverlink
  • Resolved an issue where a failure in the remote cache would not trigger local re-execution of an action.

Release 0.10.1 (2018-02-15)

Baseline: 22c2f9a7722e8c8b7fdf8f5d30a40f1c4118e993

Cherry picks:
   + f6ca78808722c8c119affdb33400838ee92d44b6:
     isable_presubmit
   + 65c13dd5a4c1b4b5a072f7680b8f1cf3c5079b52:
     Fix StreamResourceLeak error
   + e5436745e1732f5e43fc55f0deb5b19e23ce8524:
     windows: fix --symlink_prefix=/ throwing exception
   + 22ccdd1ebe1dc495e05d894a3325f6b05e681fb3:
     Fix turbine command lines with empty javacopts
   + 96c654d43eb2906177325cbc2fc2b1e90dbcc792:
     Remove EOL'd Linux flavours, bump CentOS to 6.9.
   + f0bec36864f10370cbbda4caa8beac2e0c5ee45b:
     Automated rollback of commit
     2aeaeba66857c561dd6d63c79a213f1cabc3650d.
   + 860af5be10b6bad68144d9d2d34173e86b40268c:
     Consolidate Error Prone resource handling
   + 2e631c99495f75270d2639542cefb531ec262d67:
     sandbox: properly add `tmpDir` to `writablePaths`
   + 5bfa5844d0d16d71e88002956e88402bfec88ef7:
     actions,temp: respect TMPDIR envvar
   + 6cc2ad8676d1ae0542b351a07a05ddbe5efac165:
     sandbox: add env[TMPDIR] instead of `tmpDir`
   + 40c757f4ab90214f95935672532a495c4551490a:
     Change git clone to pull all history, so all needed commits can
     be accessed.
   + 56aeb04a064218b845ecc193d530c341c6ec854d:
     Fixing #4585: broken re-execution of orphaned actions.

Important changes:

  • Resolved an issue where a failure in the remote cache would not trigger local re-execution of an action.

Release 0.10.0 (2018-02-01)

Baseline: 22c2f9a7722e8c8b7fdf8f5d30a40f1c4118e993

Cherry picks:
   + f6ca78808722c8c119affdb33400838ee92d44b6:
     isable_presubmit
   + 65c13dd5a4c1b4b5a072f7680b8f1cf3c5079b52:
     Fix StreamResourceLeak error
   + e5436745e1732f5e43fc55f0deb5b19e23ce8524:
     windows: fix --symlink_prefix=/ throwing exception
   + 22ccdd1ebe1dc495e05d894a3325f6b05e681fb3:
     Fix turbine command lines with empty javacopts
   + 96c654d43eb2906177325cbc2fc2b1e90dbcc792:
     Remove EOL'd Linux flavours, bump CentOS to 6.9.
   + f0bec36864f10370cbbda4caa8beac2e0c5ee45b:
     Automated rollback of commit
     2aeaeba66857c561dd6d63c79a213f1cabc3650d.
   + 860af5be10b6bad68144d9d2d34173e86b40268c:
     Consolidate Error Prone resource handling
   + 2e631c99495f75270d2639542cefb531ec262d67:
     sandbox: properly add `tmpDir` to `writablePaths`
   + 5bfa5844d0d16d71e88002956e88402bfec88ef7:
     actions,temp: respect TMPDIR envvar
   + 6cc2ad8676d1ae0542b351a07a05ddbe5efac165:
     sandbox: add env[TMPDIR] instead of `tmpDir`
   + 40c757f4ab90214f95935672532a495c4551490a:
     Change git clone to pull all history, so all needed commits can
     be accessed.

Incompatible changes:

  • In order to access the template variables $(JAVA) and $(JAVABASE), @bazel_tools//tools/jdk:current_java_runtime needs to be added to the toolchains= attribute from now on.
  • The ctx.middle_man function is not supported anymore.
  • The flag --incompatible_list_plus_equals_inplace is removed, its default behavior is preserved. += on lists now always mutates the left hand side.
  • --android_sdk no longer supports filegroup targets.
  • android_* rules no longer support legacy_native_support attribute.

New features:

  • query: Add option --noproto:flatten_selects to turn off flattening of selector lists in proto output.
  • New android test rule, android_local_test.

Important changes:

  • The --remote_rest_cache flag now respects --remote_timeout.
  • --experimental_java_coverage is available for testing.
  • The deprecated builtin set is no longer allowed even from within unexecuted code in bzl files. It's temporarily possible to use --incompatible_disallow_uncalled_set_constructor=false if this change causes incompatibility issues.
  • Linkstamping is now a separate and full-blown CppCompileAction, it's no longer a part of linking command.
  • Using +, | or .union on depsets is now deprecated. Please use the new constructor instead (see https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/depsets.html).
  • config_feature_flag's default_value is optional. It is only an error to have a config_feature_flag with no default_value if that config_feature_flag has not been set in the configuration it is being evaluated in.
  • --[no]keep_incrementality_data is gone, replaced by the enum-valued --incremental_state_retention_strategy
  • Linkstamping is now a separate and full-blown CppCompileAction, it's no longer a part of linking command.
  • Added --checkHashMismatch flag to ZipFilterAction. Valid values are IGNORE, WARN and ERROR. --errorOnHashMismatch is deprecated, please use this flag instead.
  • Set build jobs equivalent to number of logical processors by default. Should improve build times significantly.
  • Added --(no)expand_test_suites flag.
  • Rename --keep_incrementality_data to --track_incremental_state
  • --remote_rest_cache was renamed to --remote_http_cache. Both options keep working in this release, but --remote_rest_cache will be removed in the next release.
  • Aspects-on-aspect see and propagate over aspect attributes.
  • --auth_* flags were renamed to --google_* flags. The old names will continue to work for this release but will be removed in the next release.
  • Remote Caching and Execution support output directories.
  • Remove defunct flags --experimental_incremental_dexing_for_lite_proto and --experimental_incremental_dexing_error_on_missed_jars that have long been enabled by default
  • New version of aapt2 and Resources.proto.
  • Make PIC and non PIC outputs for C++ compilation with Tree Artifacts

Release 0.9.0 (2017-12-19)

Baseline: ddd5ac16aeffa6c4693c348f73e7365240b1abc5

Cherry picks:
   + 2cf560f83922e6df9626ba3ee063c1caf6797548:
     Update version of re2
   + a2d2615362c65be98629b39ce39754a325ed1c42:
     Check for null build file returned from getBuildFileForPackage.
   + 68c577afc2fb33b5e66b820bcc9043fed1071456:
     Fix some broken targets and failing tests.
   + 766ba8adc4487f17ebfc081aeba6f34b18b53d6c:
     Automated rollback of commit
     337f19cc54e77c45daa1d5f61bf0a8d3daf8268f.
   + a22d0e9c14e58b29d81f5a83bdcc6e5fce52eafe:
     Fix: uploading artifacts of failed actions to remote cache
     stopped working.
   + 03964c8ccb20d673add76c7f37245e837c3899b6:
     [java_common.compile] Name output source jar relative to the
     output jar name

Incompatible changes:

  • The deprecated set constructor is removed, along with the migration flag --incompatible_disallow_set_constructor. It is still temporarily allowed to refer to set from within unexecuted code.
  • The flag --incompatible_disallow_set_constructor is no longer available, the deprecated set constructor is not available anymore.
  • The path to the JVM executable is not accessible anymore as ctx.{fragments,host_fragments}.jvm.java_executable. Use JavaRuntimeInfo.java_executable_exec_path instead.
  • --clean_style is no longer an option.

New features:

  • Users can use win_def_file attribute to specify a DEF file for exporting symbols when build a shared library on Windows.
  • Add --experimental_android_resource_cycle_shrinking option to allow for more aggressive code and resource shrinking.

Important changes:

  • Late-bound attributes are exposed to skylark. This is a new API (configuration_field()) to depend on certain configuration-defined targets from skylark rules.
  • Document interaction between test_suite and target exclusions
  • AAR manifest files will come from the processed resource APK if it exists. RELNOTES: None for Blaze users.
  • Document interaction between test_suite and target exclusions
  • --keep_incrementality_data flag allows Bazel servers to be run in memory-saving non-incremental mode independent of --batch and --discard_analysis_cache.
  • Add deps attribute to Skylark maven_aar and maven_jar workspace rules.
  • Use --expand_configs_in_place as a startup argument to change the order in which --config expansions are interpreted.
  • SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/) can be used to override the timestamp used for stamped target (when using --stamp).
  • Package specifications can now be prefixed with - to indicate negation
  • transitive_source_jars is now exposed on JavaInfo.
  • Add six to deps of has_services=1 py_proto_librarys.
  • java_tests no complain when use_testrunner is explicitly set to 1 and main_class is set.
  • transitive_source_jars is now exposed on JavaInfo.
  • Debug messages generated by print() are not being filtered out by --output_filter anymore, it's recommended not to use them in production code.
  • in the Label() function, relative_to_caller_repository is now deprecated.
  • java_tests no complain when use_testrunner is explicitly set to 1 and main_class is set.
  • Bazel's default hash function was changed from MD5 to SHA256. In particular, this affects users of remote caching and execution, as all hashes will be SHA256 by default.
  • Remove redirects for domains be.bazel.build and cr.bazel.build from the source for docs.bazel.build (because those subdomains don't resolve here; they resolve to bazel.build, which has the redirects for them)
  • First argument of ‘load’ must be a label. Path syntax is removed. (label should start with ‘//’ or ‘:’).
  • Document startup option --host_javabase
  • The --host_platform and --platform flags are no longer experimental.

Release 0.8.0 (2017-11-27)

Baseline: cff0dc94f6a8e16492adf54c88d0b26abe903d4c

Cherry picks:
   + 8a49b156c4edf710e3e1e0acfde5a8d27cc3a086:
     Fix ImportError on tools.android for junction_lib
   + 275ae45b1228bdd0f912c4fbd634b29ba4180383:
     Automated rollback of commit
     4869c4e17d5b1410070a1570f3244148d8f97b5d.
   + d0bf589f2716b3d139c210930371a684c6e158eb:
     Add a random number to action temp dir
   + 9738f35abddb7ef7a7ef314b5d2a52a3be1b830a:
     CcProtoLibrary: Don't add dynamic librarys to filesToBuild on
     Windows
   + 0d6ff477099fdf6c8c1c7d4e2104f9184afe0a2b:
     Automated rollback of commit
     0ebb3e54fc890946ae6b3d059ecbd50e4b5ec840.

Incompatible changes:

  • ctx.fragments.apple.{xcode_version,ios_minimum_os} is not supported anymore. The same information is accessible through the target @bazel_tools//tools/osx:current_xcode_config: point an implicit attribute to it (i.e. attr.label(default=Label(“@bazel_tools//tools/osx:current_xcode_co nfig”)) then use ctx.attr._xcode_config[apple_common].XcodeVersionConfig].
  • ctx.fragments.apple.minimum_os_for_platform_type is not supported anymore. The same information is accessible through the target @bazel_tools//tools/osx:current_xcode_config: point an implicit attribute to it (i.e. attr.label(default=Label(“@bazel_tools//tools/osx:current_xcode_co nfig”)) then use ctx.attr._xcode_config[apple_common].XcodeVersionConfig].minimum_o s_for_platform_type .
  • ctx.fragments.apple.sdk_version_for_platform is not supported anymore. The same information is accessible through the target @bazel_tools//tools/osx:current_xcode_config: point an implicit attribute to it (i.e. attr.label(default=Label(“@bazel_tools//tools/osx:current_xcode_co nfig”)) then use ctx.attr._xcode_config[apple_common].XcodeVersionConfig].sdk_versi on_for_platform .
  • --javabase= and --host_javabase= are not supported anymore. If you need this functionality java_runtime_suite(name=“suite”, default=“:runtime”) java_runtime(name=“runtime”, java_home=) is an alternative.
  • The flag --incompatible_descriptive_string_representations is no longer available, old style string representations of objects are not supported anymore.
  • The flag --incompatible_disallow_set_constructor is no longer available, the deprecated set constructor is not available anymore.
  • += on lists now mutates them. list1 += list2 is now equivalent to list1.extend(list2) and not equivalent to list1 = list1 + list2 anymore.
  • the target_apple_env and apple_host_system_env methods on ctx.fragments.apple are not supported anymore. The same information is accessible through apple_common.target_apple_env and apple_common.apple_host_system_env . They need the Xcode configuration as an argument, which can be obtained by declaring an implicit dependency on it (i.e. attr.label(default=Label(“@bazel_tools//tools/osx:current_xcode_co nfig”)) and then calling e.g. apple_common.apple_host_system_env(ctx.attr._xcode_config[apple_co mmon.XcodeVersionConfig]).
  • C++ toolchain identifiers are not in the name of the output directory anymore.
  • Selecting on “xcode_version” and “{ios,tvos,macos,watchos}_sdk_version” is not supported anymore. What was config_setting(values={“$FOO_version”: $VALUE}) is now config_setting(flag_values={“@bazel_tools//tools/osx:$FOO_version_ flag”: $VALUE}).
  • Selecting on “xcode_version” and “{ios,tvos,macos,watchos}_sdk_version” is not supported anymore. What was config_setting(values={“$FOO_version”: $VALUE}) is now config_setting(flag_values={“@bazel_tools//tools/osx:$FOO_version_ flag”: $VALUE}).
  • The flag --incompatible_disallow_set_constructor is no longer available, the deprecated set constructor is not available anymore.
  • Selecting on “xcode_version” and “{ios,tvos,macos,watchos}_sdk_version” is not supported anymore. What was config_setting(values={“$FOO_version”: $VALUE}) is now config_setting(flag_values={"@bazel_tools//tools/osx:$FOO_versi...

New features:

  • runfiles, sh: Shell scripts may now depend on //src/tools/runfiles:runfiles_sh_lib and source runfiles.sh. The script defines the rlocation function which returns runfile paths on every platform.
  • In addition to $(location), Bazel now also supports $(rootpath) to obtain the root-relative path (i.e., for runfiles locations), and $(execpath) to obtain the exec path (i.e., for build-time locations)

Important changes:

  • android_binary now supports custom debug keys via the debug_key attribute.
  • Updated Android proguard to 5.3.3. It now works with android-24+.
  • --experimental_use_parallel_android_resource_processing and --experimental_android_use_nocompress_extensions_on_apk are removed. These features are fully rolled out.
  • Fixes #2574
  • Fixes #3834
  • Enable experimental UI by default.
  • . RELNOTES: None. RELNOTES: No.
  • Add memory profiler.
  • [Bazel] {java,cc}proto_library now look for dependencies in @com_google_protobuf, instead of in @com_google_protobuf$LANG
  • Improved merge.sh script in cookbook.
  • Fixing regression to --experimental_remote_spawn_cache
  • Support for linker scripts in NativeDepsHelper (e.g., android_binary)
  • Skylark semantics flags now affect WORKSPACE files and repository rules.
  • ctx.outputs.executable is deprecated. Use DefaultInfo(executable = ...) instead.
  • Update “mirror.bazel.build” urls to use https.
  • Improve --config logging when --announce_rc is present.
  • Document interaction between test_suite and target exclusions
  • Replace version numbers for Bazel installers with “” (because this will change often)
  • Published command lines should have improved lists of effective options.
  • --incremental_dexing_binary_types has been removed. All builds are supported by incremental dexing (modulo proguard and some blacklisted dx flags).
  • Document --host_javabase, --host_java_toolchain

Release 0.7.0 (2017-10-18)

Baseline: 5cc6246d429f7d9119b97ce263b4fd6893222e92

Cherry picks:
   + e79a1107d90380501102990d82cbfaa8f51a1778:
     Windows,bootstrapping: fix build_windows_jni.sh

Incompatible changes:

  • The --output=location flag to ‘bazel query’ cannot be used with query expressions that involve the ‘buildfiles’ or ‘loadfiles’ operators. This also applies to ‘genquery’ rules.
  • Operators for equality, comparison, ‘in’ and ‘not in’ are no longer associative, e.g. x < y < z is now a syntax error. Before, it was parsed as: (x < y) < z.
  • In strings, octal sequences greater than \377 are now forbidden (e.g. “\600”). Previously, Blaze had the same behavior as Python 2, where “\450” == “\050”.
  • Using tabulation for identation is now fobidden in .bzl files
  • load is now a language keyword, it cannot be used as an identifier
  • lvalues must have define at least one variable (i.e. we forbid [] = f()).
  • Fixed a bug whereby multiple load() statements could appear on the same line
  • -extra_checks:off is no longer supported; use -XepDisableAllChecks instead
  • java_common.java_toolchain_attr is removed. Depend on the java_toolchain_alias() rule to accomplish the same thing.
  • cc_common.cc_toolchain_attr and java_common.java_runtime_attr are not supported anymore and were replaced with the cc_toolchain_alias() and java_runtime_alias() rules.
  • Noop flag --deprecated_generate_xcode_project deleted.
  • Objects in Skylark are converted to strings in a more descriptive and less harmful way (they don‘t leak information that shouldn’t be accessed by Skylark code, e.g. nondeterministic memory addresses of objects).
  • set is deprecated in BUILD and .bzl files, please use depset instead. Ordering names have also been changed, please use “default”, “postorder”, “preorder”, and “topological” instead of “stable”, “compile”, “naive_link”, and “link” correspondingly.
  • Integer overflow (on signed 32 bit numbers) in BUILD/bzl files is an error.
  • Keyword-only syntax in a function definition is now forbidden e.g. def foo(a, *, b) or def foo(a, *b, c)
  • --incompatible_comprehension_variables_do_not_leak defaults to “true.” Iteration variable becomes inaccessible after a list/dict comprehension.
  • @bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/docker:docker.bzl is no longer available, please see https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker.

New features:

  • Zipped LLVM profiles are now supported.
  • LIPO maps to ThinLTO for LLVM builds.
  • Change to handle LLVM FDO zipped profile contents correctly.
  • Do not disable fully dynamic linking with ThinLTO when invoked via LIPO options.
  • There is now a ‘siblings’ query function. See the query documentation for more details.
  • Added the print_action command, which outputs the actions needed to build a given target in the form of an ExtraActionSummary proto in text format.
  • android_binary now supports proguard_apply_dictionary to specify a custom dictionary to use for choosing names to obfuscate classes and members to.

Important changes:

  • Windows: bazel clean --expunge works
  • First argument of ‘load’ should be a label. Path syntax is deprecated (label should start with ‘//’ or ‘:’).
  • Octal prefix ‘0’ is deprecated in favor of ‘0o’ (use 0o777 instead of 0777).
  • The extension_safe attribute of apple_binary no longer validates transitive dependencies are compiled against extension_safe APIs.
  • Parentheses around the tuple are now mandatory in [a for b in c if 1, 2]
  • Adjust the thresholds for --test_verbose_timeout_warnings so that it can recommending timeout increases and won't recommend timeouts that are too close to the actual timeout.
  • Iterating on a depset object is deprecated. If you need an iterable, call the .to_list() method first.
  • Bazel now uses tools from action_configs in Crosstool by default (as oposed to using top level tools).
  • Incremental dexing errors on combination of --multidex=off and either --main-dex-list or --minimal-main-dex.
  • When using the dictionary literal syntax, it is now an error to have duplicated keys (e.g. {‘ab’: 3, ‘ab’: 5}).
  • New property on android_sdk: aapt2 Choose the version of aapt on android_binary
  • Add idl_preprocessed attribute to android_library, so that preprocessed aidl files can be passed to android_library for compiling
  • Bazel's remote_worker backend for remote execution supports sandboxing on Linux now. Check https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/src/tools/remote_w orker/README.md for details.
  • Allows flags that expand to take values.
  • Make querying attributes formed by selector lists of list types more efficient by no longer listing every possible combination of attribute value but by more compactly storing the possible values of the list.
  • writing build events to a file is no longer experimental
  • set --rewrite_calls_to_long_compare to false by default.
  • ObjC and C++ coverage feature is unified under name ‘coverage’
  • Enable --incremental_dexing for Android builds by default. Note that some dexopts are incompatible with incremental dexing, including --force-jumbo.
  • Evaluation will soon use checked arithmetics and throw an error instead of overflow/underflow.
  • Implicit iteration in the CROSSTOOL has been removed, use explicit ‘iterate_over’ message.
  • Add option for Android specific grte_top
  • Crosstool patches are only applied if the toolchain doesn't define ‘no_legacy_features’ feature.
  • ‘platform_type’ is now a mandatory attribute on apple_binary and apple_static_library rules. If this change breaks your build, feel free to add platform_type = ‘ios’ to any apple_binary and apple_static_library targets in your project, as this was the previous default behavior.
  • Remove apple_watch2_extension build rule. Users should be using the skylark watchos_application and watchos_extension rules. https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple has details.
  • Check stderr to detect if connected to a terminal. Deprecate --isatty.
  • Commands that shut down the server (like “shutdown”) now ensure that the server process has terminated before the client process terminates.
  • Remove apple_watch1_extension and apple_watch_extension_binary rules. Users should be using the skylark watchos_application and watchos_extension rules. https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple has details.
  • Windows: Wrapper-less CROSSTOOL becomes default now. set USE_MSVC_WRAPPER=1 if you still want to use wrapper script.
  • Ignore --glibc in the Android transition.
  • Remove --experimental_android_use_singlejar_for_multidex.
  • nocopts now also filter copts
  • ‘strip’ action is now configured via feature configuration
  • The Build Event Service (BES) client now properly supports Google Applicaton Default Credentials.
  • Flags from action_config get added first to the command line first, before the flags from features.
  • update dexing tools to Android SDK 26.0.1
  • Bazel Android support now requires build-tools 26.0.1 or later.
  • bazel info output_path no longer relies on the root directory filename being equal to the workspace name.
  • The print function now prints debug messages instead of warnings.
  • speedup of incremental dexing tools
  • --announce_rc now controls whether bazelrc startup options are printed to stderr.
  • Removing a few unused objc_provider keys.
  • Improved logging when workers have to be restarted due to its files having changed.
  • Top-level if statements are now forbidden.
  • Java protos are compiled to Java 7 bytecode.
  • All Android builds now use the desugar tool to support some Java 8 features by default. To disable, use the --nodesugar_for_android flag.
  • Skylark-related options may now appear as “common” command options in the .bazelrc
  • Python is now required to build bazel.
  • New --build_runfile_manifests flag controls production of runfiles manifests.
  • Enable debug info for Java builds
  • Allow java_lite_proto_library in the deps of android rules.
  • .so files in APKs will be memory-page aligned when android_binary.nocompress_extensions contains “.so” and --experimental_android_use_nocompress_extensions_on_apk is specified.
  • Skylark providers can specify allowed fields and their documentation.
  • Support ctx.actions.args() for more efficient Skylark command line construction.
  • The remote HTTP/1.1 caching client (--remote_rest_cache) now distinquishes between action cache and CAS. The request URL for the action cache is prefixed with ‘ac’ and the URL for the CAS is prefixed with ‘cas’.
  • JavaInfo is a preferred alias to java_common.provider.
  • J2ObjC version updated to 2.0.3.
  • A new Java coverage implementation is available. Makes possible coverage for Skylark JVM rules.
  • Make proguard_apply_dictionary also apply to class and package obfuscation, not just class members.
  • android_binary.nocompress_extensions now applies to all files in the APK, not just resources and assets.
  • The apple_genrule rule that is distributed with Bazel has been deleted. Users who wish to use genrules with Xcode's DEVELOPER_DIR set should use the rules in https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple instead.
  • The swift_library rule that is distributed with Bazel has been deleted. Users who wish to compile Swift should use the rules in https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple instead.
  • The Build Event Protocol's File.uri field is now properly encoded according to RFC2396.
  • Deprecated: Using the android_library.deps attribute to implicitly export targets to dependent rules. If your code is using this feature, Bazel will raise a warning. To fix, please use android_library.exports to explicitly specify exported targets. Run with --experimental_allow_android_library_deps_without_srcs=false to ensure forward compatibility when this feature is removed in a future release.
  • java_common.create_provider is now supported with creating ijars by default. This introduces incompatibilities for existing users. Please set use_ijar=False if you don't want to use ijars.
  • Tests can now write files to TEST_UNDECLARED_OUTPUTS_DIR and TEST_UNDECLARED_OUTPUTS_ANNOTATIONS_DIR and these will be reflected under bazel-testlogs.
  • remove unused --host_incremental_dexing flag
  • Stop using --undefined dynamic_lookup in Apple links. Enables unresolved symbol errors.
  • All test output files included for cached, uncached, and multiple attempt tests.
  • Android rules no longer restrict the manifest file to be named “AndroidManifest.xml”.
  • Boolean flag values will now get normalized to 1 or 0 in canonicalize-flags output.
  • added experimental --use_new_category_enum to the help command to output options grouped by the new type of category.
  • Expose output jars and jdeps in java_common.provider, when available.
  • android_library targets are no longer allowed to use deps to export targets implicitly; please use android_library.exports instead.
  • New depset API
  • apple_binary and apple_static_library no longer support compilation attributes such as ‘srcs’. If this breaks any existing targets, you may migrate all such attributes to a new objc_library target and depend on that objc_library target via the ‘deps’ attribute of apple_binary or apple_static_library.

Release 0.6.1 (2017-10-05)

Baseline: 87cc92e5df35d02a7c9bc50b229c513563dc1689

Cherry picks:
   + a615d288b008c36c659fdc17965207bb62d95d8d:
     Rollback context.actions.args() functionality.
   + 7b091c1397a82258e26ab5336df6c8dae1d97384:
     Add a global failure when a test is interrupted/cancelled.
   + 95b0467e3eb42a8ce8d1179c0c7e1aab040e8120:
     Cleanups for Skylark tracebacks
   + cc9c2f07127a832a88f27f5d72e5508000b53429:
     Remove the status xml attribute from AntXmlResultWriter
   + 471c0e1678d0471961f1dc467666991e4cce3846:
     Release 0.6.0 (2017-09-28)
   + 8bdd409f4900d4574667fed83d86b494debef467:
     Only compute hostname once per server lifetime
   + 0bc9b3e14f305706d72180371f73a98d6bfcdf35:
     Fix bug in NetUtil caching.

Important changes:

  • Only compute hostname once per server lifetime

Release 0.6.0 (2017-09-28)

Baseline: 87cc92e5df35d02a7c9bc50b229c513563dc1689

Cherry picks:
   + a615d288b008c36c659fdc17965207bb62d95d8d:
     Rollback context.actions.args() functionality.
   + 7b091c1397a82258e26ab5336df6c8dae1d97384:
     Add a global failure when a test is interrupted/cancelled.
   + 95b0467e3eb42a8ce8d1179c0c7e1aab040e8120:
     Cleanups for Skylark tracebacks
   + cc9c2f07127a832a88f27f5d72e5508000b53429:
     Remove the status xml attribute from AntXmlResultWriter

Incompatible changes:

  • Noop flag --deprecated_generate_xcode_project deleted.
  • Objects in Skylark are converted to strings in a more descriptive and less harmful way (they don‘t leak information that shouldn’t be accessed by Skylark code, e.g. nondeterministic memory addresses of objects).
  • set is deprecated in BUILD and .bzl files, please use depset instead. Ordering names have also been changed, please use “default”, “postorder”, “preorder”, and “topological” instead of “stable”, “compile”, “naive_link”, and “link” correspondingly.
  • Integer overflow (on signed 32 bit numbers) in BUILD/bzl files is an error.
  • Keyword-only syntax in a function definition is now forbidden e.g. def foo(a, *, b) or def foo(a, *b, c)
  • --incompatible_comprehension_variables_do_not_leak defaults to “true.” Iteration variable becomes inaccessible after a list/dict comprehension.

New features:

  • There is now a ‘siblings’ query function. See the query documentation for more details.
  • Added the print_action command, which outputs the actions needed to build a given target in the form of an ExtraActionSummary proto in text format.
  • android_binary now supports proguard_apply_dictionary to specify a custom dictionary to use for choosing names to obfuscate classes and members to.

Important changes:

  • ‘strip’ action is now configured via feature configuration
  • Flags from action_config get added first to the command line first, before the flags from features.
  • bazel info output_path no longer relies on the root directory filename being equal to the workspace name.
  • The print function now prints debug messages instead of warnings.
  • speedup of incremental dexing tools
  • --announce_rc now controls whether bazelrc startup options are printed to stderr.
  • Removing a few unused objc_provider keys.
  • Improved logging when workers have to be restarted due to its files having changed.
  • Top-level if statements are now forbidden.
  • Java protos are compiled to Java 7 bytecode.
  • All Android builds now use the desugar tool to support some Java 8 features by default. To disable, use the --nodesugar_for_android flag.
  • Skylark-related options may now appear as “common” command options in the .bazelrc
  • Python is now required to build bazel.
  • When the lvalue of an augmented assignment is a list, we now throw an error before evaluating the code (e.g. a, b += 2, 3).
  • New --build_runfile_manifests flag controls production of runfiles manifests.
  • Enable debug info for Java builds
  • Allow java_lite_proto_library in the deps of android rules.
  • .so files in APKs will be memory-page aligned when android_binary.nocompress_extensions contains “.so” and --experimental_android_use_nocompress_extensions_on_apk is specified.
  • Skylark providers can specify allowed fields and their documentation.
  • Support ctx.actions.args() for more efficient Skylark command line construction.
  • The remote HTTP/1.1 caching client (--remote_rest_cache) now distinquishes between action cache and CAS. The request URL for the action cache is prefixed with ‘ac’ and the URL for the CAS is prefixed with ‘cas’.
  • JavaInfo is a preferred alias to java_common.provider.
  • J2ObjC version updated to 2.0.3.
  • A new Java coverage implementation is available. Makes possible coverage for Skylark JVM rules.
  • Make proguard_apply_dictionary also apply to class and package obfuscation, not just class members.
  • When using the dictionary literal syntax, it is now an error to have duplicated keys (e.g. {‘ab’: 3, ‘ab’: 5}).
  • android_binary.nocompress_extensions now applies to all files in the APK, not just resources and assets.
  • The apple_genrule rule that is distributed with Bazel has been deleted. Users who wish to use genrules with Xcode's DEVELOPER_DIR set should use the rules in https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple instead.
  • The swift_library rule that is distributed with Bazel has been deleted. Users who wish to compile Swift should use the rules in https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple instead.

Release 0.5.4 (2017-08-25)

Baseline: 6563b2d42d29196432d5fcafa0144b8371fbb028

Cherry picks:
   + d4fa181f8607c35230b7efa1ce94188b51508962:
     Use getExecPathString when getting bash_main_file
   + 837e1b3d4859140d29aaa6bbab8fbb008e6d701e:
     Windows, sh_bin. launcher: export runfiles envvars
   + fe9ba893c0ebec19228086356af5fa8d81f2809b:
     grpc: Consolidate gRPC code from BES and Remote Execution. Fixes
     #3460, #3486
   + e8d4366cd374fba92f1425de0d475411c8defda4:
     Automated rollback of commit
     496d3ded0bce12b7371a93e1183ba30e6aa88032.
   + 242a43449dd44a22857f6ce95f7cc6a7e134d298:
     bes,remote: update default auth scope.
   + 793b409eeae2b42be7fed58251afa87b5733ca4d:
     Windows, sh_bin. launcher: fix manifest path
   + 7e4fbbe4ab3915a57b2187408c3909e5cd6c6013:
     Add --windows_exe_launcher option
   + 91fb38e92ace6cf14ce5da6527d71320b4e3f3d2:
     remote_worker: Serialize fork() calls. Fixes #3356
   + b79a9fcd40f448d3aebb2b93a2ebe80d09b38408:
     Quote python_path and launcher in
     python_stub_template_windows.txt
   + 4a2e17f85fc8450aa084b201c5f24b30010c5987:
     Add build_windows_jni.sh back
   + ce61d638197251f71ed90db74843b55d9c2e9ae5:
     don't use methods and classes removed in upstream dx RELNOTES:
     update dexing tools to Android SDK 26.0.1
   + 5393a4996d701fa192964a35cbb75e558a0599c0:
     Make Bazel enforce requirement on build-tools 26.0.1 or later.
   + 5fac03570f80856c063c6019f5beb3bdc1672dee:
     Fix --verbose_failures w/ sandboxing to print the full command
     line
   + f7bd1acf1f96bb7e3e19edb9483d9e07eb5af070:
     Only patch in C++ compile features when they are not already
     defined in crosstool
   + d7f5c120417bc2d2344dfb285322355f225d9153:
     Bump python-gflags to 3.1.0, take two
   + 3cb136d5451e9d8af58f9a99990cad0592df101a:
     Add python to bazel's dockerfiles

New features:

  • Do not disable fully dynamic linking with ThinLTO when invoked via LIPO options.

Important changes:

  • Ignore --glibc in the Android transition.
  • Remove --experimental_android_use_singlejar_for_multidex.
  • nocopts now also filter copts
  • The Build Event Service (BES) client now properly supports Google Applicaton Default Credentials.
  • update dexing tools to Android SDK 26.0.1
  • Bazel Android support now requires build-tools 26.0.1 or later.
  • Fix a bug in the remote_worker that would at times make it crash on Linux. See #3356
  • The java_proto_library rule now supports generated sources. See #2265

Release 0.5.3 (2017-07-27)

Baseline: 88518522a18df5788736be6151fc67992efe2aad

Cherry picks:
   + 820a46af10808396873c36d0f331e533118cf0c6:
     Automated rollback of commit
     6d6e87297fe8818e4c374fdfabfbcf538bca898a.
   + ccfb2df69ecf4746f5a15e1295af995c3a45aa94:
     Allow py_binary to be the executable of a Skylark action or any
     SpawnAction on Windows.
   + 06534911696838e720c8681f6f568c69d28da65e:
     Fix string representation for the Root class
   + cd159bcee72a7f377621b45409807231a636f9e2:
     sandbox: Allow UNIX sockets on macOS even when block-network is
     used.
   + ad73cba3caa2e08ad61ea9ca63f9111cde1f48d1:
     Fix python_stub_template.txt to be compatible with Python 2.4.
   + 9a63aff8bb771af8917903fbbc9df3b708e2c0ed:
     Create Windows ZIP release artifact using Bazel
   + 5e576637b5705aff0a7bf56b5077463dffcd712f:
     Automated rollback of commit
     820a46af10808396873c36d0f331e533118cf0c6.
   + b6e29ca217b02c3ba499b85479a3830f59c9b9b6:
     Use the correct function to generate the release notes
   + 0f3481ba6364f24ef76b839bdde06ae7883c9bd9:
     Include <cinttypes> instead of <stdint.h>

Incompatible changes:

  • The --output=location flag to ‘bazel query’ cannot be used with query expressions that involve the ‘buildfiles’ or ‘loadfiles’ operators. This also applies to ‘genquery’ rules.
  • Operators for equality, comparison, ‘in’ and ‘not in’ are no longer associative, e.g. x < y < z is now a syntax error. Before, it was parsed as: (x < y) < z.
  • In strings, octal sequences greater than \377 are now forbidden (e.g. “\600”). Previously, Blaze had the same behavior as Python 2, where “\450” == “\050”.
  • Using tabulation for identation is now fobidden in .bzl files
  • load is now a language keyword, it cannot be used as an identifier
  • lvalues must have define at least one variable (i.e. we forbid [] = f()).
  • Fixed a bug whereby multiple load() statements could appear on the same line
  • -extra_checks:off is no longer supported; use -XepDisableAllChecks instead
  • java_common.java_toolchain_attr is removed. Depend on the java_toolchain_alias() rule to accomplish the same thing.
  • cc_common.cc_toolchain_attr and java_common.java_runtime_attr are not supported anymore and were replaced with the cc_toolchain_alias() and java_runtime_alias() rules.

New features:

  • Zipped LLVM profiles are now supported.
  • LIPO maps to ThinLTO for LLVM builds.
  • Change to handle LLVM FDO zipped profile contents correctly.

Important changes:

  • Windows: bazel clean --expunge works
  • First argument of ‘load’ should be a label. Path syntax is deprecated (label should start with ‘//’ or ‘:’).
  • Octal prefix ‘0’ is deprecated in favor of ‘0o’ (use 0o777 instead of 0777).
  • The extension_safe attribute of apple_binary no longer validates transitive dependencies are compiled against extension_safe APIs.
  • Parentheses around the tuple are now mandatory in [a for b in c if 1, 2]
  • Adjust the thresholds for --test_verbose_timeout_warnings so that it can recommending timeout increases and won't recommend timeouts that are too close to the actual timeout.
  • Iterating on a depset object is deprecated. If you need an iterable, call the .to_list() method first.
  • Bazel now uses tools from action_configs in Crosstool by default (as oposed to using top level tools).
  • Incremental dexing errors on combination of --multidex=off and either --main-dex-list or --minimal-main-dex.
  • When using the dictionary literal syntax, it is now an error to have duplicated keys (e.g. {‘ab’: 3, ‘ab’: 5}).
  • New property on android_sdk: aapt2 Choose the version of aapt on android_binary
  • Add idl_preprocessed attribute to android_library, so that preprocessed aidl files can be passed to android_library for compiling
  • Bazel's remote_worker backend for remote execution supports sandboxing on Linux now. Check https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/src/tools/remote_w orker/README.md for details.
  • Allows flags that expand to take values.
  • Make querying attributes formed by selector lists of list types more efficient by no longer listing every possible combination of attribute value but by more compactly storing the possible values of the list.
  • Writing build events to a file is no longer experimental
  • set --rewrite_calls_to_long_compare to false by default.
  • ObjC and C++ coverage feature is unified under name ‘coverage’
  • Enable --incremental_dexing for Android builds by default. Note that some dexopts are incompatible with incremental dexing, including --force-jumbo.
  • Evaluation will soon use checked arithmetics and throw an error instead of overflow/underflow.
  • Implicit iteration in the CROSSTOOL has been removed, use explicit ‘iterate_over’ message.
  • Add option for Android specific grte_top
  • Crosstool patches are only applied if the toolchain doesn't define ‘no_legacy_features’ feature.
  • ‘platform_type’ is now a mandatory attribute on apple_binary and apple_static_library rules. If this change breaks your build, feel free to add platform_type = ‘ios’ to any apple_binary and apple_static_library targets in your project, as this was the previous default behavior.
  • Remove apple_watch2_extension build rule. Users should be using the skylark watchos_application and watchos_extension rules. https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple has details.
  • Check stderr to detect if connected to a terminal. Deprecate --isatty.
  • Commands that shut down the server (like “shutdown”) now ensure that the server process has terminated before the client process terminates.
  • Remove apple_watch1_extension and apple_watch_extension_binary rules. Users should be using the skylark watchos_application and watchos_extension rules. https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple has details.
  • Windows: Wrapper-less CROSSTOOL becomes default now. set USE_MSVC_WRAPPER=1 if you still want to use wrapper script.

Release 0.5.2 (2017-06-27)

Baseline: e78ad83ded6e9c6d639793827e27b6570e6e9f65

Cherry picks:
   + 68028317c1d3d831a24f90e2b25d1410ce045c54:
     experimental UI: move stopUpdateThread() out of synchronized,
     again
   + 019935dfbb61e61d08d1351b0365fb4e2d0df305:
     Fix bug in URI computation in RemoteModule
   + e9424cf9b9d72b98594966d5ac0f15bb018ec639:
     Automated rollback of commit
     7dec00574aa91327693f6ba7e90bff5bc834253e.
   + 9eea05d068a06ab642dd9d86d46ee5fa2e36b02e:
     Switching to Watcher API instead of wait_for_completion, in
     preparation for deprecating the wait_for_completion field.
   + 89659810e3048782dfb5e308e39aa8a0727e464e:
     Set correct execroot for info
   + 716b527266f47f59a2b7fb2e5fc52cb45e1691b1:
     Only create a single per-build instance of the remote cache /
     executor
   + 1d82d199f82409f217a42bcefebb96f723f91caa:
     protobuf: Update protobuf jars to be binary compatible with Java
     6. Fixes #3198
   + 524b90d9e5acc4fa568f215c9415eaa902e979f8:
     Change CAS URI to use the "bytestream" scheme instead of being
     scheme-less
   + 4929ad79865f8c13ef3b33c827040f4a037e4afe:
     Automated g4 rollback of commit
     923d7df521f67d031b288180560848bd35e20976.
   + 68b9a7e2dc17e32b194238d287e79bee1ba035b9:
     Automated g4 rollback of commit
     da56606563ee9df438db93392f681bf2abb4ac97.
   + 2ba693ffbe824136a0ca5f47d34710612f6302c3:
     Automated rollback of commit
     ce7c4deda60a307bba5f0c9421738e2a375cf44e.

Incompatible changes:

  • Blaze no longer generates xcode projects. Use tulsi.bazel.build instead.

Important changes:

  • Keyword-only syntax in a function definition is deprecated (e.g. def foo(a, *, b) or def foo(a, *b, c)) and will be removed in the future.
  • Attempting to build an Android target without setting up android_sdk_repository will now produce a helpful error message.
  • Adds a sha256 attribute to git_repository and new_git_repository. This can only be used if the remote is a public GitHub repository. It forces Bazel to download the repository as a tarball, which will often be faster and more robust than cloning it.
  • Sandboxing is now enabled by default on FreeBSD (via processwrapper-sandbox).
  • android_test may use manifest placeholders with ‘manifest_merger = “android”’.
  • load() statements should be called at the top of .bzl files, before any other statement. This convention will be enforced in the future.
  • Effectively remove sysroot from CppConfiguration and allow it to use select statements.
  • proto_library.strict_proto_deps no longer exists.
  • Flag --explicit_jre_deps is now a noop.
  • The ‘legacy’ Android manifest merger is deprecated. Please upgrade to the ‘android’ manifest merger, which is the same merger used by Gradle. https://developer.android.com/studio/build/manifest-merge.html
  • Using $(CC_FLAGS) in a GenRule adds a dependency to the c++ toolchain
  • add one-version enforcement to android_local_test
  • Skylark support (apple_common.dotted_version(string)) for building DottedVersion objects to interface with native apple rules
  • CC_FLAGS can be defined using ‘cc-flags-make-variable’ action_config in CROSSTOOL
  • ios_framework native rule has been removed. This rule had been essentially broken for several months now; users should be using the skylark ios framework rule. https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple has details.
  • Clean command no longer uses boolean values for --async, --expunge, and --expunge_async options.
  • Partially fixes external J2ObjC support.
  • ‘--aspects’ can occur more than once on the command line.
  • --no_ prefix no longer recognized.
  • Use action_config in crosstool for static library archiving, remove ar_flag.
  • Added a new flag --sandbox_writable_path, which asks the sandbox to make an existing directory writable when running actions.
  • bazel test now also computes a default instrumentation filter if --collect_code_coverage is enabled
  • n/na
  • In .bzl files, top-level if statements are deprecated and will be forbidden in the future. Move them in a function body instead (or use a conditional expression instead: x if condition else y).
  • ios_device and ios_test are deprecated. Please use the new testing rules in https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple instead.
  • bazel query --output package now displays packages from external repository with the format “@reponame//package”. Packages in the main repository continue to have the format “package”.
  • ctx.expand_make_variables is deprecated.
  • Bazel posts links to the CAS to the BEP if remote caching / execution is enabled
  • bazel info execution_root returns the corrrect directory name for the execution root.

Release 0.5.1 (2017-06-06)

Baseline: f3ae88ee043846e7acdffd645137075a4e72c573

Cherry picks:
   + c58ba098526b748f9c73e6229cafd74748205aa1:
     Release to GCS: put the final release in its own directory
   + 0acead4ea3631240659836ce6ecd6d7f67fd352b:
     Update protobuf to latest master at a64497c and apply
     @laszlocsomor's latest changes from
     https://github.com/google/protobuf/pull/2969 on top of it.
   + d0242ce4a87929f2528f4602d0fb09d1ccfcea94:
     Make symlinks consistent
   + d953ca8b87a46decbce385cebb446ae0dd390881:
     Clean VanillaJavaBuilder output directories
   + 755669fb5de1f4e762f27c19776cac9f410fcb94:
     Pass all the environment variable to Bazel during bootstrapping
   + 6f041661ca159903691fcb443d86dc7b6454253d:
     Do not mark the JDK7 installer -without-jdk-installer
   + 720561113bfa702acfc2ca24ce3cc3fd7ee9c115:
     Fix #2958: Installer should not overwrite bazelrc
   + 511c35b46cead500d4e76706e0a709e50995ceba:
     Bootstrap: move the fail function to the top
   + 8470be1122825aae8ad0903dd1e1e2a90cce47d2:
     Clean up javac and Error Prone targets
   + 4a404de2c6c38735167e17ab41be45ef6fc4713a:
     Update javac version to 9-dev-r4023-2
   + 36ce4b433e19498a78c34540d5a166d4e0006b22:
     Update javac version to 9-dev-r4023-2
   + 38949b8526bdb3e6db22f3846aac87162c28c33f:
     Migrate off versioned javac and Error Prone targets
   + 1a57d298f8aa6ea8136d93223902104f2479cd2a:
     Re-enabling passing -sourcepath via javacopts.
   + eb565f408e03125e92d42b00756e519795be6593:
     Make make sure that msys build actually builds msys version
   + 39f328cf392056618d1a3ead4835a138b189a06d:
     Fix typo. Also do not override host_cpu for msvc.
   + 624802893f4fe72118f00a78452605d41a2e1c6f:
     Select correct JDK for windows_msys
   + c4f271d1a68366b6fa5ff38ea7d951b6a22af044:
     Automated g4 rollback of commit
     3e5edafa2a04a71cd3596e929e83222da725f3f9.
   + 926180997a0f296a5a009326aead887279ce0a90:
     Remove process-tools.cc which I forgot to delete during the last
     rollback.
   + baca6e4cb023649920871b74810927d304729e59:
     Fix #2982: Bazel installer should not check for installed JDK if
     using a bundled JDK.
   + 866ecc8c3d5e0b899e3f0c9c6b2265f16daae842:
     Disable msys path conversion on Windows.
   + cc21998c299b4d1f97df37b961552ff8168da17f:
     Rollforward #2 of: Basic open-source crosstool to support
     targeting apple platform types.
   + 0f0ccc4fc8229c1860a9c9b58089d6cfb2ee971f:
     Escape % in strings that will appear in Crosstool
   + 3b08f774e7938928e3a240a47a0a7554cdc8d50b:
     Adding feature for linking C Run-Time library on Windows
   + 3566474202d1978acfdcb7e5ff73ee03ea6f3df9:
     Do not use sed -E in bootstrap/compile.sh
   + c3cf7d917afd02d71de3800cd46ad8d14f1ddf55:
     Reverts non-xcode-available darwin crosstool generation.

Important changes:

  • Fixes regression in 0.5.0 requiring Xcode to build C++ on OSX.

Release 0.5.0 (2017-05-26)

Baseline: f3ae88ee043846e7acdffd645137075a4e72c573

Cherry picks:
   + c58ba098526b748f9c73e6229cafd74748205aa1:
     Release to GCS: put the final release in its own directory
   + 0acead4ea3631240659836ce6ecd6d7f67fd352b:
     Update protobuf to latest master at a64497c and apply
     @laszlocsomor's latest changes from
     https://github.com/google/protobuf/pull/2969 on top of it.
   + d0242ce4a87929f2528f4602d0fb09d1ccfcea94:
     Make symlinks consistent
   + d953ca8b87a46decbce385cebb446ae0dd390881:
     Clean VanillaJavaBuilder output directories
   + 755669fb5de1f4e762f27c19776cac9f410fcb94:
     Pass all the environment variable to Bazel during bootstrapping
   + 6f041661ca159903691fcb443d86dc7b6454253d:
     Do not mark the JDK7 installer -without-jdk-installer
   + 720561113bfa702acfc2ca24ce3cc3fd7ee9c115:
     Fix #2958: Installer should not overwrite bazelrc
   + 511c35b46cead500d4e76706e0a709e50995ceba:
     Bootstrap: move the fail function to the top
   + 8470be1122825aae8ad0903dd1e1e2a90cce47d2:
     Clean up javac and Error Prone targets
   + 4a404de2c6c38735167e17ab41be45ef6fc4713a:
     Update javac version to 9-dev-r4023-2
   + 36ce4b433e19498a78c34540d5a166d4e0006b22:
     Update javac version to 9-dev-r4023-2
   + 38949b8526bdb3e6db22f3846aac87162c28c33f:
     Migrate off versioned javac and Error Prone targets
   + 1a57d298f8aa6ea8136d93223902104f2479cd2a:
     Re-enabling passing -sourcepath via javacopts.
   + eb565f408e03125e92d42b00756e519795be6593:
     Make make sure that msys build actually builds msys version
   + 39f328cf392056618d1a3ead4835a138b189a06d:
     Fix typo. Also do not override host_cpu for msvc.
   + 624802893f4fe72118f00a78452605d41a2e1c6f:
     Select correct JDK for windows_msys
   + c4f271d1a68366b6fa5ff38ea7d951b6a22af044:
     Automated g4 rollback of commit
     3e5edafa2a04a71cd3596e929e83222da725f3f9.
   + 926180997a0f296a5a009326aead887279ce0a90:
     Remove process-tools.cc which I forgot to delete during the last
     rollback.
   + baca6e4cb023649920871b74810927d304729e59:
     Fix #2982: Bazel installer should not check for installed JDK if
     using a bundled JDK.
   + 866ecc8c3d5e0b899e3f0c9c6b2265f16daae842:
     Disable msys path conversion on Windows.
   + cc21998c299b4d1f97df37b961552ff8168da17f:
     Rollforward #2 of: Basic open-source crosstool to support
     targeting apple platform types.
   + 0f0ccc4fc8229c1860a9c9b58089d6cfb2ee971f:
     Escape % in strings that will appear in Crosstool
   + 3b08f774e7938928e3a240a47a0a7554cdc8d50b:
     Adding feature for linking C Run-Time library on Windows

Incompatible changes:

  • Bazel's Linux sandbox no longer mounts an empty tmpfs on /tmp, instead the existing /tmp is mounted read-write. If you prefer to have a tmpfs on /tmp for sandboxed actions for increased hermeticity, please use the flag --sandbox_tmpfs_path=/tmp.
  • Converting artifacts to strings and printing them now return “File” instead of “Artifact” to be consistent with the type name.
  • The return type of depset.to_list() is now a list rather than a frozen list. (Modifying the list has no effect on the depset.)
  • Bazel now prints logs in single lines to java.log
  • --use_dash, --dash_url and --dash_secret are removed.
  • Remote repositories must define any remote repositories they themselves use (e.g., if @x//:foo depends on @y//:bar, @y must be defined in @x's WORKSPACE file).
  • Remote repositories must define any remote repositories they themselves use (e.g., if @x//:foo depends on @y//:bar, @y must be defined in @x's WORKSPACE file).
  • objc_xcodeproj has been removed, use tulsi.bazel.build instead.

New features:

  • If grte_top is a label, it can now follow non-configurable redirects.
  • Optional coverage_files attribute to cc_toolchain
  • “query --output=build” now includes select()s
  • Raw LLVM profiles are now supported.

Important changes:

  • Automatically generate Proguard mapping when resource shrinking and Proguard are enabled.
  • New rules in Bazel: proto_library, java_lite_proto_library, java_proto_library and cc_proto_library
  • Activate the “dead_strip” feature if objc binary stripping is enabled.
  • More stable naming scheme for lambda classes in desugared android code
  • Convert --use_action_cache to a regular option
  • Per-architecture dSYM binaries are now propagated by apple_binary's AppleDebugOutputsProvider.
  • Avoid factory methods when desugaring stateless lambdas for Android
  • desugar calls to Objects.requireNonNull(Object o) with o.getClass() for android
  • Add an --copy_bridges_from_classpath argument to android desugaring tool
  • Change how desugar finds desugared classes to have it working on Windows
  • Evaluation of commands on TargetsBelowDirectory patterns (e.g. //foo/...) matching packages that fail to load now report more detailed error messages in keep_going mode.
  • Allow to have several inputs and outputs
  • Repository context's execute() function can print stdout/stderr while running. To enable, pass quiet=False.
  • Bazel can now be built with a bundled version of the OpenJDK. This makes it possible to use Bazel on systems without a JDK, or where the installed JDK is too old.
  • The --jobs flag now defaults to “auto”, which causes Bazel to use a reasonable degree of parallelism based on the local machine's capacity.
  • Bazel benchmark (perf.bazel.build) supports Java and Cpp targets.
  • no factory methods generated for lambda expressions on android
  • The Linux sandbox no longer changes the user to ‘nobody’ by default, instead the current user is used as is. The old behavior can be restored via the --sandbox_fake_username flag.
  • /tmp and /dev/shm are now writable by default inside the Linux sandbox.
  • Bazel can now use the process-wrapper + symlink tree based sandbox implementation in FreeBSD.
  • turn on --experimental_incremental_dexing_error_on_missed_jars by default.
  • All android_binarys are now signed with both Apk Signature V1 and V2. See https://source.android.com/security/apksigning/v2.html for more details.
  • Windows MSVC wrappers: Not filtering warning messages anymore, use --copt=-w and --host_copt=-w to suppress them.
  • A downloader bug was fixed that prevented RFC 7233 Range connection resumes from working with certain HTTP servers
  • Introduces experimental android_device rule for configuring and launching Android emulators.
  • For boolean flags, setting them to false using --no_<flag_name> is deprecated. Use --no<flag_name> without the underscore, or --<flag_name>=false instead.
  • Add --experimental_android_compress_java_resources flag to store java resources as compressed inside the APK.
  • Removed --experimental_use_jack_for_dexing and libname.jack output of android_library.
  • blaze canonicalize-flags now takes a --show_warnings flag
  • Changing --invocation_policy will no longer force a server restart.
  • Bazel now supports Android NDK14.
  • android_binary multidex should now work without additional flags.
  • Use action_config in crosstool for static library archiving, remove ar_flag.
  • new option for bazel canonicalize-flags, --canonicalize_policy
  • Use action_config in crosstool for static library archiving, remove ar_flag.
  • android_library exports_manifest now defaults to True.
  • Fix select condition intersections.
  • Adds a --override_repository option that takes a repository name and path. This forces Bazel to use the directory at that path for the repository. Example usage: --override_repository=foo=/home/user/gitroot/foo.
  • fix idempotency issue with desugaring lambdas in interface initializers for android
  • --experimental_android_use_singlejar_for_multidex is now a no-op and will eventually be removed.
  • Every local_repository now requires a WORKSPACE file.
  • Remove jack and jill attributes of the android_sdk rule.
  • Add Skylark stubs needed to remove sysroot from CppConfiguration.
  • Desugar try-with-resources so that this language feature is available to deveces with API level under 19.
  • The flag --worker_max_retries was removed. The WorkerSpawnStrategy no longer retries execution of failed Spawns, the reason being that this just masks compiler bugs and isn't done for any other execution strategy either.
  • Bazel will no longer gracefully restart workers that crashed / quit, instead this triggers a build failure.
  • All java resources are now compressed in android_binary APKs by default.
  • All java resources are now compressed in android_binary APKs by default.
  • android_ndk_repository now creates a cc_library (@androidndk//:cpufeatures) for the cpufeatures library that is bundled in the Android NDK. See https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/cpu-features.html for more details.
  • ‘output_groups’ and ‘instrumented_files’ cannot be specified in DefaultInfo.
  • You can increase the CPU reservation for tests by adding a “cpu:” (e.g. “cpu:4” for four cores) tag to their rule in a BUILD file. This can be used if tests would otherwise overwhelm your system if there's too much parallelism.
  • Deprecate use_singlejar_for_proguard_libraryjars and force behavior to always on.

Release 0.4.5 (2017-03-16)

Baseline: 2e689c29d5fc8a747216563235e905b1b62d63b0

Cherry picks:
   + a28b54033227d930672ec7f2714de52e5e0a67eb:
     Fix Cpp action caching
   + 6d1d424b4c0da724e20e14235de8012f05c470f8:
     Fix paths of binaries in .deb packages.
   + 0785cbb672357d950e0c045770c4567df9fbdc43:
     Update to guava 21.0 and Error Prone version 2.0.18-20160224
   + 30490512eb0e48a3774cc4e4ef78680e77dd4e47:
     Update to latest javac and Error Prone
   + 867d16eab3bfabae070567ecd878c291978ff338:
     Allow ' ', '(', ')' and '$' in labels
   + 7b295d34f3a4f42c13aafc1cc8afba3cb4aa2985:
     Pass through -sourcepath to the JavaBuilder
   + 14e4755ce554cdfc685fc9cc2bfb5b699a3b48f4:
     PathFragment comparisons are now platform-aware
   + ed7795234ca7ccd2567007f2c502f853cd947e50:
     Flag to import external repositories in python import path
   + 81ae08bbc13f5f4a04f18caae339ca77ae2699c1:
     Suppress error for non-exhaustive switches
   + e8d1177eef9a9798d2b971630b8cea59471eec33:
     Correctly returns null if an environment variables is missing
   + 869d52f145c077e3499b88df752cebc60af51d66:
     Fix NPE in Android{S,N}dkRepositoryFunction.
   + d72bc57b60b26245e64f5ccafe023a5ede81cc7f:
     Select the good guava jars for JDK7 build
   + 92ecbaeaf6fa11dff161254df38d743d48be8c61:
     Windows: Assist JNI builds with a target for jni_md.h.
   + 36958806f2cd38dc51e64cd7bcc557bd143bbdb6:
     Add java_common.create_provider to allow creating a
     java_common.provider
   + 8c00f398d7be863c4f502bde3f5d282b1e18f504:
     Improve handling of unknown NDK revisions in
     android_ndk_repository.
   + b6ea0d33d3ab72922c8fb3ec1ff0e437af09584d:
     Add the appropriate cxx_builtin_include_directory entries for
     clang to the Android NDK crosstool created by
     android_ndk_repository.

Incompatible changes:

  • Depsets (former sets) are converted to strings as “depset(...)” instead of “set(...)”.
  • Using --symlink_prefix is now applied to the output symlink (e.g. bazel-out) and the exec root symlink (e.g. bazel-workspace).
  • Bazel now uses the test's PATH for commands specified as --run_under; this can affect users who explicitly set PATH to a more restrictive value than the default, which is to forward the local PATH
  • It's not allowed anymore to compare objects of different types (i.e. a string to an integer) and objects for which comparison rules are not defined (i.e. a dict to another dict) using order operators.

New features:

  • environ parameter to the repository_rule function let defines a list of environment variables for which a change of value will trigger a repository refetching.

Important changes:

  • android_ndk_repository now supports Android NDK R13.
  • Android resource shrinking is now available for android_binary rules. To enable, set the attribute ‘shrink_resources = 1’. See https://bazel.build/versions/master/docs/be/android.html#android_b inary.shrink_resources.
  • resolve_command/action's input_manifest return/parameter is now list
  • For increased compatibility with environments where UTS namespaces are not available, the Linux sandbox no longer hides the hostname of the local machine by default. Use --sandbox_fake_hostname to re-enable this feature.
  • proto_library: alias libraries produce empty files for descriptor sets.
  • Adds pkg_rpm rule for generating RPM packages.
  • Allow CROSSTOOL files to have linker flags specific to static shared libraries.
  • Make it mandatory for Java test suites in bazel codebase, to contain at least one test.
  • Support for Java 8 lambdas, method references, type annotations and repeated annotations in Android builds with --experimental_desugar_for_android.
  • Removed .xcodeproj automatic output from objc rules. It can still be generated by requesting it explicitly on the command line.
  • Flips --explicit_jre_deps flag on by default.
  • Activate the “dbg”, “fastbuild”, and “opt” features in the objc CROSSTOOL.
  • Remove support for configuring JDKs with filegroups; use java_runtime and java_runtime_suite instead
  • android_ndk_repository api_level attribute is now optional. If not specified, the highest api level in the ndk/platforms directory is used.

Release 0.4.4 (2017-02-01)

Baseline: 4bf8cc30a

Cherry picks:
   + ef1c6fd33: msvc_tools.py.tpl: Change default runtime library to
              static

Incompatible changes:

  • Only targets with public visibility can be bound to something in //external: .
  • The deprecated -x startup option has been removed.
  • docker_build: change the repository names embedded by docker_build. You can revert to the old behavior by setting legacy_repository_naming=True.
  • The string methods strip(), lstrip(), and rstrip() now by default remove the same whitespace characters as Python 3 does, and accept None as an argument.
  • Deprecated globals HOST_CFG and DATA_CFG are removed. Use strings “host” and “data” instead.
  • repository_ctx environment is now affected by --action_env flag (value from the client environment will be replaced by value given on the command line through --action_env).
  • All executable labels must also have a cfg parameter specified.
  • Removed the cmd_helper.template function. The function was equivalent to: def template(items, template): return [template.format(path = i.path, short_path = i.short_path) for i in items]
  • Tuples that end with a trailing comma must now be inside parens, e.g. (1,) instead of 1,
  • The traversal orders for depsets have been renamed. The old names are deprecated and will be removed in the future. New names: “stable” -> “default”, “compile” -> “postorder”, “link” -> “topological”, “naive_link” -> “preorder”.

New features:

  • Skylark: you can now multiply a list by an integer to get the concatenation of N copies of this list, e.g. [a,b] * 3 = [a,b,a,b,a,b]
  • Allow Android aidl tool to add a jar to the program's classpath, such as if needed to support generated sources.
  • Add transitive proguard_specs when android_sdk.aidl_lib is specified
  • Windows: “/dev/null” is now a supported path, e.g. --bazelrc=/dev/null now works

Important changes:

  • Bazel Android builds use the apksigner tool from the Android SDK build-tools. Bazel Android builds now require build-tools version 24.0.3 or later.
  • Android SDK external bindings for support libraries, e.g. //external:android/appcompat_v4, are removed because the support library JARs that they referenced no longer ship with the Android SDK.
  • aar_import rule is now documented.
  • An IE bug was fixed in repository_ctx.download_and_extract
  • Update “-I” to “-isystem” in documentation to reflect current behavior.
  • android_sdk_repository build_tools_version is now optional. The highest installed build-tools will be used if none is specified.
  • New flag --sandbox_add_mount_pair to specify customized source:target path pairs to bind mount inside the sandbox.
  • expose proto_library descriptor set to skylark via .proto.descriptor_set
  • The set constructor is deprecated in favor of depset
  • Autodetect gold linker in cc_configure.bzl
  • Remove build flag --experimental_j2objc_annotation_processing. It is on by default now.
  • Set clang's -mwatchos-version-min correctly using the value of --watchos_minimum_os, not --watchos_sdk_version.
  • singlejar can now create jar files larger than 4GB.
  • android_sdk_repository and android_ndk_repository now read $ANDROID_HOME and $ANDROID_NDK_HOME if the path attribute is not set.
  • Removed broken api levels 3, 4 and 5 from Android NDK 12.
  • Default --android_dynamic_mode to off.
  • android_sdk_repository no longer requires api_level. If one is not specified, the highest android platform installed will be used. Furthermore, android_sdk's are created for all android platforms installed and can be specified with the --android_sdk flag.
  • To iterate over or test for membership in a set, prefer using the new to_list() method. E.g., “for x in myset.to_list():”, or “print(x in myset.to_list())”. Iteration/membership-test on the raw set itself is deprecated.
  • Remove support for --javawarn; use e.g. --javacopt=-Xlint:all instead

Release 0.4.3 (2016-12-22)

Baseline: c645a45

Cherry picks:
   + af878d0: Add coverage support for java test. (series 4/4 of
              open-sourcing coverage command for java test)
   + 09b92a8: Rollback of commit
              67b4d5250edcefa7220e928e529b1f385e2dc464.
   + b11dd48: Fix bad bug with the parallel implementation of
              BinaryOperatorExpression. Turns out that
              ForkJoinTask#adapt(Callable) returns a ForkJoinTask
              whose Future#get on error throws a ExecutionException
              wrapping a RuntimeException wrapping the thrown checked
              exception from the callable. This is documented
              behavior [1] that I incorrectly didn't know about.
   + 9012bf1: Fix scripts/packages/convert_changelog to read the
              changelog correctly
   + 55c97bc: Release script: if master branch does not exist, fall
              back on origin/master
   + 4fb378c: Debian repository: override section and priority fields
   + acbcbc2: Fix release notes in emails
   + 4975760: Fix PathFragment to not use Java8-only static hashCode
              methods.
   + 05fd076: Disable sandboxing for XibCompile actions.

Incompatible changes:

  • Skylark maven_jar and maven_aar settings attribute is now a label so it can be checked into your workspace.
  • --{no}experimental_use_rclass_generator is now a nop.

New features:

  • Coverage support (experimental) for pure Java target. Use bazel coverage //my:target to generate coverage information from a java_test.

Important changes:

  • Enable fallback URLs in Skylark http rules.
  • cc_proto_library generates C++ code from proto_library rules.
  • cc_library now supports the strip_prefix and strip_include_prefix attributes for control of include paths.
  • Skylark dicts internally don't rely on keys order anymore and accept any hashable values (i.e. structs with immutable values) as keys. Iteration order of dictionaries is no longer specified.

Release 0.4.2 (2016-12-02)

Baseline: 6331a94

Cherry picks:
   + 7b835d9: Do not patch WORKSPACE in the release process

Incompatible changes:

  • Callback functions in Skylark no longer support the cfg parameter. This is a cleanup and only affects the signatures of callbacks, since the parameter hasn't been set since September 2016.

Important changes:

  • Alias proto_library's produce a descriptor set that contains all srcs of its dependencies.
  • proto_library supports strict proto deps.
  • Top level @androidsdk support library targets have been replaced by @androidsdk//:- for Android SDK Support and Google Play Services libraries.

Release 0.4.1 (2016-11-21)

Baseline: 9a796de

Cherry picks:
   + 88bfe85: Description redacted. -- MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=139219934
   + b09ea94: Rollback of commit
              a3f5f576cd35798140ba3e81d03d919dd4ecb847.

New features:

  • android_library now has a “exported_plugins” attribute just like java_library
  • Use --strict_system_includes to apply hdrs_check=strict also to cc_library.includes, even if sandboxing is disabled.
  • Bazel on Windows: java_binary can now be the executable of Skylark rule actions (ctx.action's executable argument)
  • Packages are defined in BUILD.bazel as well as BUILD files.

Important changes:

  • getattr()'s 3-arg form no longer raises an error when the retrieved field is a built-in method.
  • --apk_signing_method default changed to v1. Android APKs are now signed with the new ApkSignerTool by default.
  • New rule: proto_lang_toolchain(), to support LANG_proto_library rules on multiple platforms.
  • Fix for Android clang++ std::stack segfault on 32bit x86. See https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=220159
  • Default android_manifest_merger is now “android” which uses the official Android manifest merger. http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide/man ifest-merger
  • Do not propagate aspect to its own attributes when using ‘*’.
  • Comparing sets (if set1 < set2:) is not allowed anymore in Skylark because it didn't work correctly anyway.
  • When --experimental_extra_action_top_level_only, Bazel reports extra-actions for actions registered by Aspects injected by a top-level rule (approximately).
  • Blacklists for proto_lang_toolchain() no longer have to be proto_library's.
  • Extra actions now contain aspect-related information.
  • Fix slicing bug where “abc”[:-4:-1] would give wrong answer

Release 0.4.0 (2016-10-26)

Baseline: 088bbc6

Cherry picks:
   + b01160c: Stamp Windows release.
   + 2d6736e: Add --no-tty for gpg signing
   + 9b1dfb8: Remove .sig file before gpg signing
   + 81aede1: Reimplement whole archive on Windows

Incompatible changes:

  • Skylark: updating list/dicts while they are being looped over is not allowed. Use an explicit copy if needed (“for x in list(mylist):”).
  • Bazel now uses the --cpu flag to look up Jvms; it falls back to “default” if it can't find a Jvm matching the CPU value.
  • --command_port=-1 to use AF_UNIX for client/server communications is not supported anymore.
  • Sandboxed actions can access the network by default, unless their target has a “block-network” tag.

New features:

  • Files now have an “extension” property in Skylark.

Important changes:

  • Added a new flag --sandbox_tmpfs_path, which asks the sandbox to mount an empty, writable directory at a specified path when running actions. (Supported on Linux only for now.)
  • Update protoc-3.0.0-mingw.exe to a working (statically linked) binary
  • apple_static_library rule to create multi-architecture static archive files from Objc/C++/Swift dependencies on apple platforms
  • JS: Add support for localization with closure managed rules.
  • Create a flag --android_dynamic_mode to turn off dynamic mode during the Android split transition.
  • Darwin sandboxing is default.
  • Remove flag --experimental_zip_tree_artifact from j2objc Java annotation processing support.
  • A few functions are added to BUILD files for consistency (hash, dir, hasattr, getattr) with .bzl files, although they are not very useful.
  • --watchfs is now a command option; the startup option of the same name is deprecated. I.e., use bazel build --watchfs, not blaze --watchfs build.

Release 0.3.2 (2016-10-07)

Baseline: 023a7bd

Cherry picks:
   + bebbbe5: Fix dependency on libtool's helper script
              make_hashed_objlist.py.
   + 8a0d45f: Add the version information to the bazel.exe file
   + 2bc0939: Allow new_ rules to overwrited BUILD files in
              downloaded repos
   + c5545fd: Rollback of commit
              96d46280bc5a4803ba2242a4ad16939f85a3b212.
   + eb87208: Make cc_configure on Windows more robust
   + c30432c: Fix cc_configure on Windows
   + 95b16a8: sandbox: Replace the error-prone lazy cleanup of
              sandbox directories by a simple synchronous cleanup.
   + e898023: Fix #1849: Sandboxing on OS X should be turned off by
              default for 0.3.2.
   + ffdc05d: Add action_config and feature for linking on Windows

Incompatible changes:

  • If you maintain a rule that uses persistent workers, you'll have to specify execution_requirements={“supports-workers”: 1} in the ctx.action that intends to run a tool with workers. The WorkerSpawnStrategy will alert you with a warning message if you forget to make this change and fallback to non-worker based execution.
  • It is now an error to include a precompiled library (.a, .lo, .so) in a cc_library which would generate a library with the same name (e.g., libfoo.so in cc_library foo) if that library also contains other linkable sources.
  • The main repository‘s execution root is under the main repository’s workspace name, not the source directory‘s basename. This shouldn’t have any effect on most builds, but it's possible it could break someone doing weird things with paths in actions.
  • Blaze doesn‘t support Unix domain sockets for communication between its client and server anymore. Therefore, the --command_port command line argument doesn’t accept -1 as a valid value anymore.
  • Skylark: It is an error to shadow a global variable with a local variable after the global has already been accessed in the function.
  • bin_dir and genfiles_dir are now properties of ctx, not configuration. That is, to access the bin or genfiles directory from a Skylark rule, use ctx.bin_dir or ctx.genfiles_dir (not ctx.configuration.{bin,genfiles}_dir). At the moment, you can access {bin,genfiles}_dir from either, but the ctx.configuration version will stop working in a future release.
  • filegroup-based C++ toolchains are not supported anymore. --*_crosstool_top options must always point to a cc_toolchain_suite rule (or an alias of one).
  • repository_ctx.{download,download_and_extract,execute} API now use named parameters for optional parameters and no longer uses argument type to distinguished between arguments (executable attribute name must be specified when preceding optional arguments are missing).

New features:

  • print and fail are now available in BUILD files.

Important changes:

  • Added @bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo/git.bzl as a Skylark rule for Git repositories.
  • Added @bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo/maven_rules.bzl as a Skylark rule for Maven repositories.
  • Add global hash() function for strings (only)
  • Improve Android split transition handling.
  • Removes exports_manifest attribute from android_binary rule.
  • java_proto_library: control strict-deps through a rule-level and a package-level attribute.
  • Persistent workers are now used by default for Java compilation in Bazel, which should speed up your Java builds by ~4x. You can switch back to the old behavior via --strategy=Javac=standalone. Check out http://www.bazel.io/blog/2015/12/10/java-workers.html for more details.
  • objc_* rules can now depend on any target that returns an “objc” provider.
  • Adds support for NDK12 to android_ndk_repository rule in Bazel.
  • Test targets can disable the JUnit4 test security manager via a property.
  • Disable the Android split transition if --android_cpu and fat_apk_cpu are both empty.
  • New sandboxing implementation for Linux in which all actions run in a separate execroot that contains input files as symlinks back to the originals in the workspace. The running action now has read-write access to its execroot and /tmp only and can no longer write in arbitrary other places in the file system.
  • Add worker support to single jar.
  • Invoke source jar action as a worker.
  • Sandboxed builds allow network access for builds by default. Tests will still be run without networking, unless “requires-network” is specified as a tag.
  • Add path.realpath() method for Skylark repositories.
  • On Mac devices, detect locally installed versions of xcode to:
    1. Use a sensible default if xcode is required but --xcode_version is unspecified.
    2. Use sensible default iOS SDK version for the targeted version of xcode if ios_sdk_version is unspecified.
  • Emacs' [C-x `], a.k.a. next-error, works again in emacsen >= 25.1
  • swift_library can be used to build watchOS apps.
  • Exposes the is_device field on Apple platform objects and adds the apple_common.platform_type(name) method to retrieve a platform_type value that can be passed to methods like the Apple fragment's multi_arch_platform.
  • Move Skylark git_repository rules to git.bzl
  • Add support for aspects to attr.label() attributes
  • Global varaiables HOST_CFG and DATA_CFG are deprecated in favor of strings “host” and "data. Argument cfg = "host" or cfg = "data" is mandatory if executable = True is provided for a label.
  • The deprecation attribute of all rules now causes warnings to be printed when other targets depend on a target with that attribute set.
  • Change default of --[no]instrument_test_targets to false, change default --instrumentation_filter (which previously tried to exclude test targets by heuristic) to only exclude targets in javatests.
  • Remove deprecated absolute paths in blaze IDE artifacts
  • When using android_binary.manifest_merger=“android” the merger produces a summary log next to the merged manifest artifact.
  • Allow different default mallocs per configuration.

Release 0.3.1 (2016-07-29)

Baseline: 792a9d6

Cherry picks:
   + 25e5995: Rollback of commit
              a2770334ea3f3111026eb3e1368586921468710c.
   + 2479405: Fix NPE with unset maven_jar sha1
   + 3cf2126: Rewrite the extra action info files if the data within
              them changes.
   + 5a9c6b4: JavaBuilder: Reintroduce the -extra_checks flag.

Incompatible changes:

  • Removed predefined Python variable “generic_cpu”.
  • Skylark rules: if you set “outputs” or an attribute to a function, this function must now list its required attributes as parameters (instead of an attribute map).
  • The host_platform and target_platform entries are not written to the master log anymore.
  • Bazel requires Hazelcast 3.6 or higher now for remote execution support, because we upgraded our client library and the protocol it uses is incompatible with older versions.

New features:

  • LIPO context (--lipo_context) can now also be a cc_test (in addition to cc_binary)

Important changes:

  • If --android_crosstool_top is set, native code compiled for android will always use --android_compiler and not --compiler in choosing the crosstool toolchain, and will use --android_cpu if --fat_apk_cpu is not set.
  • Add --instrument_test_targets option.
  • apple_binary supports a new platform_type attribute, which, if set to “watchos”, will build dependencies for Apple's watchOS2.
  • objc_binary now supports late-loaded dynamic frameworks.
  • Native Swift rules no longer pull in module maps unconditionally. Use --experimental_objc_enable_module_maps for that.
  • Merged manifests are guaranteed to have the application element as the last child of the manifest element as required by Android N.
  • The Android manifest merger is now available as an option for android_binary rules. The merger will honor tools annotations in AndroidManifest.xml and will perform placeholder substitutions using the values specified in android_binary.manifest_values. The merger may be selected by setting the manifest_merger attribute on android_binary.
  • The progress message would not clear packages that need to be loaded twice.
  • Remove warning for high value of --jobs.
  • Use the correct build configuration for shared native deps during Android split transitions.
  • When building ObjectiveC++, pass the flag -std=gnu++11.
  • use xcrun simctl instead of iossim to launch the app for “blaze run”.
  • Glob arguments ‘exclude’ and ‘exclude_directories’ must be named
  • Bazel no longer regards an empty file as changed if its mtime has changed.

Release 0.3.0 (2016-06-10)

Baseline: a9301fa

Cherry picks:
   + ff30a73: Turn --legacy_external_runfiles back on by default
   + aeee3b8: Fix delete[] warning on fsevents.cc

Incompatible changes:

  • The --cwarn command line option is not supported anymore. Use --copt instead.

New features:

  • On OSX, --watchfs now uses FsEvents to be notified of changes from the filesystem (previously, this flag had no effect on OS X).
  • add support for the ‘-=’, ‘*=’, ‘/=’, and'%=' operators to skylark. Notably, we do not support ‘|=’ because the semantics of skylark sets are sufficiently different from python sets.

Important changes:

  • Use singular form when appropriate in blaze's test result summary message.
  • Added supported for Android NDK revision 11
  • --objc_generate_debug_symbols is now deprecated.
  • swift_library now generates an Objective-C header for its @objc interfaces.
  • new_objc_provider can now set the USES_SWIFT flag.
  • objc_framework now supports dynamic frameworks.
  • Symlinks in zip files are now unzipped correctly by http_archive, download_and_extract, etc.
  • swift_library is now able to import framework rules such as objc_framework.
  • Adds “jre_deps” attribute to j2objc_library.
  • Release apple_binary rule, for creating multi-architecture (“fat”) objc/cc binaries and libraries, targeting ios platforms.
  • Aspects documentation added.
  • The --ues_isystem_for_includes command line option is not supported anymore.
  • global function ‘provider’ is removed from .bzl files. Providers can only be accessed through fields in a ‘target’ object.

Release 0.2.3 (2016-05-10)

Baseline: 5a2dd7a

Incompatible changes:

  • All repositories are now directly under the x.runfiles directory in the runfiles tree (previously, external repositories were at x.runfiles/main-repo/external/other-repo. This simplifies handling remote repository runfiles considerably, but will break existing references to external repository runfiles. Furthermore, if a Bazel project does not provide a workspace name in the WORKSPACE file, Bazel will now default to using main as the workspace name (instead of "", as previously). The repository's runfiles will appear under x.runfiles/main/.
  • Bazel does not embed protocol buffer-related rules anymore.
  • It is now an error for a cc rule's includes attribute to point to the workspace root.
  • Bazel warns if a cc rule's includes attribute points out of third_party.
  • Removed cc_* attributes: abi / abi_deps. Use select() instead.

New features:

  • select({“//some:condition”: None }) is now possible (this “unsets” the attribute).

Important changes:

  • java_import now allows its ‘jars’ attribute to be empty.
  • adds crunch_png attribute to android_binary
  • Replace --java_langtools, --javabuilder_top, --singlejar_top, --genclass_top, and --ijar_top with java_toolchain.{javac,javabuilder,singlejar,genclass,ijar}
  • External repository correctness fix: adding a new file/directory as a child of a new_local_repository is now noticed.
  • iOS apps are signed with get-task-allow=1 unless building with -c opt.
  • Generate debug symbols (-g) is enabled for all dbg builds of objc_ rules.
  • Bazel‘s workspace name is now io_bazel. If you are using Bazel’s source as an external repository, then you may want to update the name you‘re referring to it as or you’ll begin seeing warnings about name mismatches in your code.
  • Fixes integer overflow in J2ObjC sources to be Java-compatible.
  • A FlagPolicy specified via the --invocation_policy flag will now match the current command if any of its commands matches any of the commands the current command inherits from, as opposed to just the current command.
  • The key for the map to cc_toolchain_suite.toolchains is now a string of the form “cpu|compiler” (previously, it was just “cpu”).
  • Fix interaction between LIPO builds and C++ header modules.
  • Ctrl-C will now interrupt a download, instead of waiting for it to finish.
  • Proxy settings can now be specified in http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables (not just HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY).
  • Skylark targets can now read include directories from ObjcProvider.
  • Expose parameterized aspects to Skylark.
  • Support alwayslink cc_library dependencies in objc binaries.
  • Import cc_library dependencies in generated Xcode project.

Release 0.2.2b (2016-04-22)

Baseline: 759bbfe

Cherry picks:
   + 1250fda: Rollback of commit
              351475627b9e94e5afdf472cbf465f49c433a25e.
   + ba8700e: Correctly set up build variables for the correct pic
              mode for fake_binary rules.
   + 386f242: Automated [] rollback of commit
              525fa71b0d6f096e9bfb180f688a4418c4974eb4.
   + 97e5ab0: Fix cc_configure include path for Frameworks on OS X.
   + a20352e: cc_configure: always add -B/usr/bin to the list of gcc
              option
   + 0b26f44: cc_configure: Add piii to the list of supported
              cpu_value
   + 3e4e416: cc_configure: uses which on the CC environment variable
   + aa3dbd3: cc_configure.bzl: strip end of line when looking for
              the cpu
   + 810d60a: cc_configure: Add -B to compiler flag too

Patch release, only includes fixes to C++ auto-configuration.

Release 0.2.1 (2016-03-21)

Baseline: 19b5675

Incompatible changes:

  • Skylark rules that are available from their own repository will now issue a warning when accessed through @bazel_tools.
  • Set --legacy_bazel_java_test to off by default. java_test will now have a slightly different behaviour, correctly emitting XML file but, as a downside, it needs correct declaration of the test suite (see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/1017).
  • Labels in .bzl files in remote repositories will be resolved relative to their repository (instead of the repository the Skylark rule is used in).
  • Renamed proto_java_library to java_proto_library. The former is now deprecated and will print out a warning when used.
  • android_sdk now compiles android_jack on the fly from android_jar, which means android_jar must be a jar and android_jack is now deprecated. The Jack tools (jack, jill, resource_extractor) must be specified.
  • Any project that depended on the objc_options rule will be broken. Can be fixed by adding attrs (infoplists,copts) directly to rules depending on the options.
  • .aidl files correctly require import statements for types defined in the same package and the same android_library.

New features:

  • Experimental Windows support is available.
  • Experimental support for writing remote repository rules in Skylark is available.
  • iOS ipa_post_processor attribute allows for user-defined IPA edits.
  • Adds a to_json method to Skylark structs, providing conversion to JSON format.
  • Native python rule can depend on skylark rule as long as skylark rule provides ‘py’ provider.
  • When using both --verbose_failures and --sandbox_debug, Bazel prints instructions how to spawn a debugging shell inside the sandbox.
  • add flag --sandbox_add_path, which takes a list of additional paths as argument and mount these paths to sandbox.

Important changes:

  • @androidsdk//:org_apache_http_legacy added for the legacy Apache classes for android sdk version 23 and above.
  • Genrules correctly work when used with bazel run.
  • When namespace-sandbox is run with the -D (debug) flag and inside a terminal, it spawns a shell inside the sandbox to aid in debugging when the sandboxed command fails.
  • Added --artifact to workspace generator for generating workspace and build file rules from artifact coodrinates.
  • Specifying --experimental_android_resource_shrinking on the command line will enable a resource shrinking pass on android_binary targets that already use Proguard.
  • J2ObjC updated to 1.0.1 release.
  • Added “root_symlinks” and “symlinks” parameters to Skylark runfiles() method.
  • You can no longer use objc_binary targets for the xctest_app attribute of an ios_test rule.
  • Enable overriding jsonnet binaries and stdlib for Jsonnet rules.
  • mount target of /etc/resolv.conf if it is a symlink.
  • Tests that failed to build because execution was halted no longer print their status.
  • Bazel warns if a cc rule's includes attribute contains up-level references that escape its package.
  • Add repository_ctx.download and repository_ctx.download_and_extract function.

Release 0.2.0 (2016-02-18)

Baseline: 9e100ac

Incompatible changes:

  • ObjC compile actions for J2ObjC-translated code now only has access to headers from the java deps of the associated original java rule. These compile actions no longer takes the compiler options specified in “copts” attribute on objc_binary/ios_test rules. J2ObjC dead code removal (enabled through flag “--j2objc_dead_code_removal”) now happens after ObjC compilation.
  • maven_jar no longer supports separate artifact_id, group_id, and verison fields. This information should be provided in the artifact field, instead.

New features:

  • Better support for toolchains that don't have a dynamic linker.
  • build_file_content attribute added to new_git_repository, new_http_archive, and new_local_repository.
  • Add support for .tar.bz2 archives to http_archive rules.

Important changes:

  • The --skyframe flag is no longer available for the build command.
  • The --artifacts flag was removed from the dump command.
  • The sha256 attribute is now optional (although recommended!) for remote repository rules.
  • Add instrumented file provider support to Skylark rules.
  • Add imports attribute to native Python rules.
  • Allow overriding -gsplit-dwarf from copts.
  • Improved sandbox performance on XFS filesystems.

Release 0.1.5 (2016-02-05)

Baseline: 3a95f35
   + 8378cd8: Rollback of commit
              a9b84575a32476a5faf991da22b44661d75c19b6.

Incompatible changes:

  • Set stamping to false by default (i.e., --nostamp)
  • Removed --objc_dump_syms_binary.
  • Removes --objc_gcov_binary flag.
  • Remove JAVAC “Make” variable
  • The startup flag --blaze_cpu is removed,

New features:

  • A new java test runner that support XML output and test filtering is supported. It can be used by specifying --nolegacy_bazel_java_test or by specifying the test_class attribute on a java_test.
  • Skylark aspects can now specify configuration fragment dependencies with fragments and host_fragments like rules can.

Important changes:

  • Support for downloading remote resources through proxies by setting HTTP_PROXY (or HTTPS_PROXY).
  • Timestamps within Android apks are removed to make apks deterministic.
  • Support aggregation over existing rules in Skylark extensions through native.rules and native.rule.
  • A tools/bazel script in the workspace will be executed as an opportunity to use a fixed version of Bazel (not implemented for the homebrew recipe yet).
  • --noimplicit_deps and --nohost_deps work correctly for Aspect attributes.
  • JDK-related targets are now available via @local_jdk (instead of @local-jdk).
  • j2objc tools can now be accessed via @bazel_j2objc, not @bazel-j2objc.
  • Repository rules must use names that are valid workspace names.
  • [rust] Update to Rust 1.6
  • Add support for .tar.xz archives to http_archive rules.
  • Make C++ modules compatible with tools using --compilation_prerequisites_only
  • [d] Update to DMD 2.070.0

Release 0.1.4 (2016-01-15)

Baseline: e933d5e
   + 3d796fe: Rollback of commit
              ac6ed79e1a3fa6b0ca91657b28e2a35f7e49758c.
   + 7a02e5d: Fix installer under OS X
   + 848740c: Fix bazel version for debian package
   + 7751d43: Add a method for getting the root of a rule workspace
              to the Label method

Important changes:

  • add loadfiles() query operator, to find skylark files loaded by targets.
  • Added ability to declare and use aspects in Skylark.
  • Skylark load statements may now reference .bzl files via build labels, in addition to paths. In particular, such labels can be used to reference Skylark files in external repositories; e.g., load(“@my_external_repo//some_pkg:some_file.bzl”, ...). Path-based loads are now deprecated and may be disabled in the future. Caveats: Skylark files currently do not respect package visibility; i.e., all Skylark files are effectively public. Also, loads may not reference the special //external package.
  • Relative paths can now be used for ‘path’ with new_local_repository and local_repository.

Release 0.1.3 (2016-01-07)

Baseline: 23ad8f6
   + de2183d: Only depend on the WORKSPACE file for external files
              that are under the external/ directory, i.e. were
              created by Bazel.
   + f8f855c: Rollback of commit
              12bad3af0eade9c4b79d76f9e1c950ad2e3214c2.
   + f627562: Stop parsing the WORKSPACE file when a parse error is
              detected
   + 763f139: Add -fno-canonical-system-headers to CROSSTOOL files so
              that gcc doesn't resolve symlinks in .d files, which
              would confuse Blaze.
   + b95995b: Use openjdk7 as dependency for debian package of jdk7
              flavor

New features:

  • Skylark macros are now enabled in WORKSPACE file.
  • .bazelrc allows workspace-relative imports as “import %workspace%/path/to/rcfile”
  • Evaluate the query expression in a file by passing --query_file= to query

Important changes:

  • Remove obsolete --objc_per_proto_includes flag.
  • iOS apps and extensions now have launch_storyboard
  • Passing multiple JVM options via a single --host_jvm_args flag is now deprecated. Pass each JVM option behind its own --host_jvm_args flag.
  • Resources defined locally on an android_library rule will respect the neverlink attribute.
  • Update Rust to 1.4
  • Fix resource handling for exported android_library rules
  • Files in external repositories are now treated as mutable, which will make the correctness guarantees of using external repositories stronger (existent), but may cause performance penalties.

Release 0.1.2 (2015-11-20)

Baseline: ee0ade3
   + 1e66ccd: RELNOTES: Symlink dirents of directories containing a
              file named
              "DONT_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS_WHEN_TRAVERSING_THIS_DIRECTORY_VIA
              _A_RECURSIVE_TARGET_PATTERN" will *not* be traversed
              for transitive target patterns. The motivation here is
              to allow directories that intentionally contain wonky
              symlinks (e.g. foo/bar -> foo) to opt out of being
              consumed by Blaze. For example, given
   + f5773fc: Set the ijar MAX_BUFFER_SIZE to 256 MB

New features:

  • java_library now supports the proguard_specs attribute for passing Proguard configuration up to Android (not Java) binaries.
  • http_file can specify “executable” to make the downloaded file runnable.
  • Debian and tar packaging is now supported (see tools/build_defs/pkg/README.md).
  • cpxx_builtin_include_directory specifications allow more flexibility.
  • accept %crosstool_top% in cxx_builtin_include_directory
  • android_binary now supports proguard_apply_mapping to re-use a previously generated proguard mapping.

Important changes:

  • remove webstatusserver (--use_webstatusserver).
  • Add support for objc textual headers, which will not be compiled when modules are enabled.
  • actoolzip, momczip and swiftstdlibtoolzip have all been made into bash scripts and have been renamed to actoolwrapper, momcwrapper and swiftstdlibtoolwrapper respectively. The old versions will be deleted in a later change.
  • [rust] Add rust_bench_test and rust_doc_test rules and improve usability of rust_test tule.
  • Java rules now support a resource_strip_prefix attribute that allows the removal of path prefixes from Java resources.
  • [docker_build] incremental loading is default now. Specify explicitly //package:target.tar (with the .tar extension) to obtain the full image.
  • --ios_signing_cert_name allows specifying a cert for iOS app signing
  • Go rules for Bazel.
  • [jsonnet] Update to Jsonnet 0.8.1.
  • [jsonnet] Add vars and code_vars attributes to jsonnet_to_json to allow passing external variables to Jsonnet via --var and --code_var.
  • Adds --override_workspace_root blaze flag to hand-set workspace_root and mainGroup in xcodeproj.
  • Allow dots in package names.
  • When used as a forwarding rule (i.e., has no sources), android_library will also forward any exported_plugins in its dependencies.
  • Add support for Windows-created zip files with non-posix permissions.
  • [jsonnet] Add jsonnet_to_json_test rule for testing Jsonnet code.
  • C++ compile actions run in a sandbox now on systems that support sandboxed execution.
  • The names of the clang compilers in the Android NDK crosstool no longer reference gcc.
  • 420 dpi is now a valid density for andoid_binary.densities.
  • Bazel does strict validation of include files now to ensure correct incremental builds. If you see compilation errors when building C++ code, please make sure that you explicitly declare all header files in the srcs or hdrs attribute of your cc_* targets and that your cc_* targets have correct “deps” on cc_library's that they use.
  • [jsonnet] Fix jsonnet_to_json rule to read code_vars from code_vars instead of vars.
  • Tests, genrules, and Skylark actions without the “requires-network” tag will no longer be able to access the network.
  • C++ libraries no longer need includes = [“.”] (or similar copts) to include paths relative to a remote repository's root.
  • Support exports attribute for android_library
  • Symlink dirents of directories containing a file named “DONT_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS_WHEN_TRAVERSING_THIS_DIRECTORY_VIA_A_RECURSI VE_TARGET_PATTERN” will not be traversed for transitive target patterns. The motivation here is to allow directories that intentionally contain wonky symlinks (e.g. foo/bar -> foo) to opt out of being consumed by Blaze.

Release 0.1.1 (2015-10-05)

Baseline: 22616ae
   + 1ef338f: Rollback of "Propagates cc_library linkopts attribute
              to dependent objc_libraries.": breaks certain
              objc_binary build targets.
   + 5fb1073: Reintroduce an inconsistency check (albeit, in a weaker
              form) removed by a previous change that was trying to
              optimize away a filesystem call.
   + 6d00468b2eb976866cfb814d562e0d53a580a46f: Add IdlClass to the embedded default android tools
              repository and rearrange BuildJar's JarHelper so that
              it too can be embedded.
   + a5199039934a2e399a7201adc0d74e2f2d2b0ff3: Fixes Android integration tests by wiring up idlclass
              rules in integration environment.

Incompatible changes:

  • Bazel requires JDK 8 to run.
  • Attribute “copts” is removed from j2objc_library.

New features:

  • a cc_binary rule may list ‘.s’ and ‘.asm’ files in the srcs
  • Support for build with libsass.
  • labels in “linkopts” may match any label in either “deps” or “srcs” to be considered valid.
  • Maven servers that require username & password authentication are now supported (see maven_server documentation).

Important changes:

  • Support empty plist files
  • The section of the AndroidManifest.xml will not be overwritten if it already contains a tag for each of the densities specified on the android_binary rule.
  • Add Jsonnet rules to Bazel
  • Remove deprecated xcode_options flag.
  • Workspace names are now restricted to being in their base directory (that is, the names cannot contain up-level references or /./).
  • j2objc_library on Bazel now transpiles transitive proto_library dependencies. (Note that java_* rules in Bazel do not yet support protos; currently they ignore proto dependencies.)
  • new_http_archive can specify a root directory.
  • Adds support for dylibs on devices for Xcode 7.
  • [d] d_docs rules now depend on a d_binary, a d_library or d_source_library.
  • [docker] docker_build now set the permission to 0555 to files added to the layer, use mode = "0644" to use the legacy behavior.
  • android_binary now has a main_dex_proguard_specs attribute to specify which classes should be in the main dex.
  • [rust] Add rust_docs rule for generating rustdoc.

Release 0.1.0 (2015-09-08)

Baseline: a0881e8
   + 87374e6: Make android_binary use a constant, hard-coded,
              checked-in debug key.
   + 2984f1c: Adds some safety checks in the Bazel installer
   + 4e21d90: Remove BUILD.glob and incorporate the necessary
              filegroups into the android_{ndk,sdk}_repository rules
              themselves.
   + 1ee813e: Fix Groovy rules to work with sandboxing
   + 8741978: Add initial D rules to Bazel.
   + 2c2e70d: Fix the installer and fixing the package shiped into
              binary version of Bazel.

Initial release.