Release 6.1.0 - March 2023

[ShreeM01]

Status of Bazel 6.1.0

• Expected release date: 2023-03-06
• List of release blockers

To report a release-blocking bug, please add a comment with the text @bazel-io flag to the issue. A release manager will triage it and add it to the milestone.

To cherry-pick a mainline commit into 6.1, simply send a PR against the release-6.1.0 branch.

Task list:

• Create draft release announcement
• Send the release announcement for review
• Push the release and notify package maintainers
• Update the documentation
• Update the release page

[brentleyjones]

Looks like there are 11 changes that have already been flagged for 6.1.0, but they haven't been triaged yet: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues?q=label%3A%22potential+release+blocker%22+is%3Aclosed

[ShreeM01]

Bazel 6.1.0rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/6.1.0/rc1/index.html

Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible.

For any cherry-pick requests, please send PRs to the release-6.1.0 branch.

[joeljeske]

Hello @kshyanashree is there any chance of uploading the releases to Github as well? I think its a common flow with Bazelisk to use Github for Bazel downloads. 🙏

[meteorcloudy]

Hi @joeljeske, Bazelisk can also fetch release candidates from the GCS bucket where the Bazel binaries are uploaded to, just set USE_BAZEL_VERSION=6.1.0rc1.
https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk#how-does-bazelisk-know-which-bazel-version-to-run

[joeljeske]

Makes sense, but due to this issue I cannot reference by binaries in the GCS bucket through my proxy.

bazelbuild/bazelisk#284

When are binaries expected to be only in the bucket or also on GitHub?

[meteorcloudy]

@joeljeske
All release binaries are published to the GCS bucket, for examples

• official release: https://releases.bazel.build/6.0.0/release/index.html
• release candidate: https://releases.bazel.build/6.1.0/rc1/index.html
• rolling release: https://releases.bazel.build/7.0.0/rolling/7.0.0-pre.20230215.2/index.html

[ShreeM01]

Bazel 6.1.0rc2 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/6.1.0/rc2/index.html

Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible.

[ShreeM01]

Bazel 6.1.0rc3 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/6.1.0/rc3/index.html

Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible.

[ShreeM01]

6.1.0 is now out!

@petemounce Could you please update Chocolatey? Thanks!

@excitoon @vbatts Could you please update Scoop & Fedora package with 6.1.0? Thanks!

[ShreeM01]

The docker container with the latest Bazel version is published to gcr.io/bazel-public/bazel.

[keertk]

FYI: We're planning to do a patch release (6.1.1) in the coming days to fix a regression (#17686). We'll update here when it's out.

[ShreeM01]

Bazel 6.1.1rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/6.1.1/rc1/index.html

Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible.

[ShreeM01]

Bazel 6.1.1rc2 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/6.1.1/rc2/index.html

Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible.

[ShreeM01]

6.1.1 is now out!

@petemounce Could you please update Chocolatey? Thanks!

@excitoon @vbatts Could you please update Scoop & Fedora package with 6.1.1? Thanks!

[ShreeM01]

The docker container with the latest Bazel version 6.1.1 is published to gcr.io/bazel-public/bazel.