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Release 7.4.1 (2024-11-12)
Bazel 7.4.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.
Core
- Prevent excessive thread creation in disk cache garbage collection (#24114)
External Deps
- Fixed an issue where changes to --experimental_downloader_config aren't reflected in registry access until a Bazel server restart. (#24228)
Local Execution
- Fix double encoding of inputs in worker request (#24123)
Performance
- Skip over runfiles middleman artifacts without a RunfilesSupplier (#24086)
Remote Execution
- Correctly compute the number of threads to use for garbage collection. (#24111)
C++ / Objective-C
- Revert "Propagate
linkoptsof header-only libraries tocc_shared_library" (#24087) - Revert "Fix ml path for Windows clang-cl cc toolchain (#23406)" (#24211)
Java
- Expose last remaining private APIs for java rules migration (#24084)
- Add missing private API for tokenizing javacopts (#24153)
Refer to the full list of commits for more details.
Acknowledgements:
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Cornelius Riemenschneider, Fabian Meumertzheim, Honnix, Matt Brown, and Roman Salvador.
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