Release 10.0.0-pre.20260412.1 (2026-04-20)
Baseline: b938ef2838f83980e894c2a0b9ec916f2dea7e14
Incompatible changes:
- Add support for decompressing Brotli archives (.br, .tar.br)
- Removes the deprecated repository rule `new_git_repository`.
Users should use `git_repository` instead (they are the same)
Important changes:
- Adds `-Djava.net.preferIPv6Addresses=system` to startup JVM args
which may impact certain IPv4-only environments. Override as
necessary with `--host_jvm_args`.
- bazelrc config declarations can now be empty
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alex Eagle, ijuren8, Jeremy Volkman, Keith Smiley, Mike Lundy, Will Stranton.
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