release_2.8.0.dev5

New Features

• Add ./pants update-build-files to automate fixing some deprecation warnings (#13273)

• Add [cli.alias] config section for command line alias support. (#13228)

• Add run support for new experimental_run_shell_command target. (#13229)

• Add azure to default Python module mapping (#13275)

• Support linux arm64 binary tools. (#13249)

• Add minimal Scala backend (#13130)

User API Changes

• Fix dir: and dir:: to include generated targets (#13263)

• Merge Docker image_name into the repository field. (#13225)

• python_sources and python_tests targets no longer use dependency inference, only python_source and python_test targets (#13231)

Plugin API Changes

• Verify each observed URL and Digest pair (#13266)

Bug fixes

• Fix pyupgrade alias name conflict (#13282)

• Fix generate_all_lockfiles. (#13280)

• Don't invalidate dependency inference when unrelated file names change (#13248)

• Fix ./pants help targets to not include deprecated target names (#13236)