Release 6.0.0-pre.20211110.1 (2021-11-19)

Baseline: 5149408

Cherry picks:

   + b371a98:
     Properly account for StarlarkOptions at their default (=null)
     when calculating ST-hash

Important changes:

  - Treat py_*.srcs_version="PY2" the same as "PY2ONLY".

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Andrew Katson, Benedek Thaler, Brandon Jacklyn, Keith Smiley.

Release 6.0.0-pre.20211101.2 (2021-11-11)

Baseline: 9c65356

Cherry picks:

   + 2c9721f:
     Automated rollback of commit
     9c65356.

Important changes:

  - Deprecate --incompatible_applicable_licenses flag, in preparation
    for removal in Bazel 6.x.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alex Eagle, Benjamin Peterson, Ben Lee, Fabian Meumertzheim, Fredrik Medley, Keith Smiley, Rahul Butani, Ulf Adams, William Muir.

Release 6.0.0-pre.20211025.1 (2021-11-03)

Baseline: 5c04973

Important changes:

  - Bazel no longer supports Java 8. From this version on, the
    minimum required JDK is OpenJDK 11.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Benjamin Peterson, John Laxson, Keith Smiley, Thi Don.

Release 6.0.0-pre.20211019.1 (2021-10-26)

Baseline: 406fc1b

Incompatible changes:

  - Remove `--experimental_profile_cpu_usage`.
  - flipped --incompatible_java_common_parameters (see bazelbuild#12373)

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as ecngtng, Fabian Meumertzheim, Keith Smiley, Mauricio Galindo, Thaler Benedek.

Release 5.0.0-pre.20211011.2 (2021-10-20)

Baseline: 3b3bad9

Cherry picks:

   + d8c2318:
     Automated rollback of commit
     2571ce2.

Incompatible changes:

  - Removed --action_graph from the dump command.
  - Remove `--{experimental_,}json_trace_compression` option.

Important changes:

  - The --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag has been
    renamed to  --incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alex Eagle, hvadehra, Keith Smiley, Torgil Svensson, Yuval.

Release 5.0.0-pre.20211006.1 (2021-10-19)

Baseline: 681886d

Important changes:

  - incompatible_disable_depset_items is flipped

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim, Keith Smiley, Thomas Carmet, Timothe Peignier.

Release 5.0.0-pre.20210929.1 (2021-10-07)

Baseline: 61a5fae

Important changes:

  - The deprecated "relative_to_caller_repository" parameter has been
    removed from the Label constructor.
  - The toolchain transition is now enabled for all toolchains.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Artem V. Navrotskiy, hvadehra, Ikko Ashimine, Paul Gschwendtner, ron-stripe, Yuval K.

Release 5.0.0-pre.20210923.7 (2021-09-30)

Baseline: 9a765c8

Cherry picks:

   + f959a22:
     Rollback.

Important changes:

  - Add support to length-delimited protos as undeclared output
    annotations []

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Benjamin Peterson, Brandon Jacklyn, Rabi Shanker Guha.

Release 5.0.0-pre.20210921.1 (2021-09-27)

Baseline: 11f1a6d

Incompatible changes:

  - Remove --bep_publish_used_heap_size_post_build
  - JSON trace profile: rename counter names.

Important changes:

  - Adds --experimental_existing_rules_immutable_view flag to make the
    native.existing_rule and native.existing_rules functions more
    efficient by
    returning immutable, lightweight dict-like view objects instead
    of mutable
    dicts.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Wren Turkal.

Release 5.0.0-pre.20210916.1 (2021-09-23)

Baseline: e4a26b6

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Peter Kasting, Ulrik Falklof.