Release 9.0.0-pre.20251008.2 (2025-10-17)
Baseline: f7538936d349ccb323724f0fa31554f4c97c6fd8
New features:
- The new `ctx.configuration.short_id` field provides a short
identifier for the current configuration that is understood by
`bazel config`.
- Module extensions can store a JSON-like Starlark object in
`module_ctx.extension_metadata(facts = ...)` and retrieve it back
in future evaluations of the extension via `module_ctx.facts`
without any invalidation taking place.
Important changes:
- With the new `--incompatible_eagerly_resolve_select_keys` flag,
the label string keys of `select` dicts in `.bzl` files are
resolved relative to the containing file instead of relative to
the BUILD file that ends up using the `select`. Use
`native.package_relative_label` if this is not desired.
- native.existing_rule() and native.existing_rules() now correctly
handle
labels pointing to a different repo.
- Starlark string.split(), string.rsplit() now allow sep and
maxsplit to be
provided as keyword arguments.
- With `--experimental_check_external_repository_files` enabled
(the default), Bazel will now refetch the respective repositories
when it encounters external modifications. This is necessary to
ensure correct incrementality. If you rely on external
modifications to these repositories, either disable or the flag
or use a supported mechanism such as `--override_repository`,
`local_path_override` or `override_repo`.
- `ctx.actions.symlink` now accepts a `target_type` argument.
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alex Eagle, Benjamin Peterson, Bradley Bridges, Christian Scott, Christopher Rydell, David Sanderson, David Zbarsky, dependabot[bot], Fabian Meumertzheim, George Gensure, Grzegorz Lukasik, Jonathan Schear, Jordan Mele, Jordan Mele, Nathan Naze, PikachuHy, Ruoyu Zhong, Son Luong Ngoc, Timothy Gu, Ulrik Falklof.
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+## Release 9.0.0-pre.20251008.2 (2025-10-17)
+
+```
+Baseline: f7538936d349ccb323724f0fa31554f4c97c6fd8
+```
+
+New features:
+
+ - The new `ctx.configuration.short_id` field provides a short
+ identifier for the current configuration that is understood by
+ `bazel config`.
+ - Module extensions can store a JSON-like Starlark object in
+ `module_ctx.extension_metadata(facts = ...)` and retrieve it back
+ in future evaluations of the extension via `module_ctx.facts`
+ without any invalidation taking place.
+
+Important changes:
+
+ - With the new `--incompatible_eagerly_resolve_select_keys` flag,
+ the label string keys of `select` dicts in `.bzl` files are
+ resolved relative to the containing file instead of relative to
+ the BUILD file that ends up using the `select`. Use
+ `native.package_relative_label` if this is not desired.
+ - native.existing_rule() and native.existing_rules() now correctly
+ handle
+ labels pointing to a different repo.
+ - Starlark string.split(), string.rsplit() now allow sep and
+ maxsplit to be
+ provided as keyword arguments.
+ - With `--experimental_check_external_repository_files` enabled
+ (the default), Bazel will now refetch the respective repositories
+ when it encounters external modifications. This is necessary to
+ ensure correct incrementality. If you rely on external
+ modifications to these repositories, either disable or the flag
+ or use a supported mechanism such as `--override_repository`,
+ `local_path_override` or `override_repo`.
+ - `ctx.actions.symlink` now accepts a `target_type` argument.
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alex Eagle, Benjamin Peterson, Bradley Bridges, Christian Scott, Christopher Rydell, David Sanderson, David Zbarsky, dependabot[bot], Fabian Meumertzheim, George Gensure, Grzegorz Lukasik, Jonathan Schear, Jordan Mele, Jordan Mele, Nathan Naze, PikachuHy, Ruoyu Zhong, Son Luong Ngoc, Timothy Gu, Ulrik Falklof.
+
## Release 7.6.2 (2025-10-08)
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