Release 10.0.0-pre.20260516.1 (2026-05-22)
Baseline: e2792d172525887b9ba4307c9bdd0483c736c5ad
New features:
- Add `add_prefix` attribute to `git_repository` to allow cloning
repositories into a given subdirectory prefix
- {r,m}ctx.download* report the size of downloaded files
RELNOTES: Addition to the user-facing Build API
Important changes:
- `--tls_certificate=`, `--tls_client_certificate=`, and
`--tls_client_key=` can now be used to reset those flags to their
unset state.
- In output of `query --output=build`, string attributes containing
newline characters are now enclosed in triple double quotes (""")
for better readability.
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Albert Lloveras, Chi Wang, dependabot[bot], Fabian Meumertzheim, Fredrik Medley, gaurav0107, John Millikin, Kapunahele Wong, Keith Smiley, Malte Poll, Nikki Vijaybhaskar, Richard Lavoie, Steffeeen, Tyler French, Will Stranton.
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