Release 8.0.0 - November 2024

[keertk]

Status of Bazel 8.0.0

• Expected first release candidate date: 2024-10-07
• Expected final release candidate date: 2024-10-28
• Expected release date: 2024-11-04
• List of release blockers: (milestone to be created after the first RC)

To report a release-blocking bug, please add a comment with the text @bazel-io flag 8.0.0 to the issue. A release manager will triage it and add it to the milestone.

To cherry-pick a mainline commit into 8.0.0, simply send a PR against the release-8.0.0 branch. (This branch will be created in October.)

Task list:

• Pick release baseline: (to be done when creating the first RC)
• Create release candidate
• Check downstream projects
• Create draft release announcement
• Send the release announcement PR for review
• Push the release and notify package maintainers
• Update the documentation
• Push the blog post
• Update the release page