7.6.0rc1
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Release 7.6.0rc1 (2025-03-11)
Bazel 7.6.0 is a minor LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 8.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.
External Deps
- The repo_name parameter of bazel_dep can now be set to None to mark it a "nodep" dependency -- that is, the bazel_dep specification is only honored if the target module already exists in the dependency graph by some other means. (#25509)
Refer to the full list of commits for more details.
Acknowledgements:
This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim, James Judd, and timothyklim.
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