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Bazel v3.5.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-10-01 // over 3 years ago

  • 🚀 Release 3.5.1 (2020-10-01)

    Baseline: 889bc0b

    Cherry picks:

    • a7a0d48:
      👉 Make no-op starlark transition not affect the output directory.
    • b37c51c:
      Add include_prefix and strip_include_prefix to cc_common.compile
    • f6ad35f:
      Delete --experimental_transparent_compression
    • 39bc97e:
      Remove --experimental_action_args
    • b970667:
      📜 Stop needlessly parsing WORKSPACE files from external
      repositories.
    • e574d55:
      👍 Allow hyphen char in workspace name
    • 9993785:
      👍 Allow dot ('.') in workspace names.
    • b3ac8f6:
      🏗 Patch upb to fix build error with gcc 10
    • 26cbf77:
      🏗 Patch upb to fix build error with gcc 10 (third_party)
    • f1f9411:
      🛠 Fix incorrect rule class digest when creating rules through
      macros.
    • 6b591a7:
      Prepare for bazel to run with shrunken r8.jar
    • 7a11752:
      ✅ Don't run DexFileMergerTest as it is not supported for all
      r8.jar's

    🆕 New features:

    • 👍 cc_common.compile support for include_prefix/strip_include_prefix

    Important changes:

    • Removed the flag --experimental_transparent_compression.
    • Removed the flag --experimental_action_args.
    • 📜 Stop needlessly parsing WORKSPACE files from external
      repositories.
    • 👀 Dot ('.') is now allowed in workspace names. See
      #11837.

    🚀 This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as David Ostrovsky.

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