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Release 8.3.0rc2 (2025-06-17)

Bazel 8.3.0 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.

General

  • Bazel now prints exactly which startup options have changed when the running Bazel server needs to be killed. (#26034)

Apple / Xcode

  • Added support for dSYM generation to cc_binary. (#26031)
  • On macOS, Bazel now respects the environment variable DEVELOPER_DIR for Xcode selection. (#25885)

C / C++

  • Added strip_include_prefix to cc_import. (#26296)

External Dependencies

  • Added a new flag --repo_contents_cache (defaults to the contents directory under the --repository_cache) where Bazel stores fetched contents of repos that can be safely cached across workspaces. A repo rule can indicate cacheability by returning repository_ctx.repo_metadata(reproducible=True) from its implementation function. (#26129)
  • source.json now supports a new attribute mirror_urls as backup URLs for the source archive. (#25937)
  • Added the load_wasm and execute_wasm methods to repository_ctx and module_ctx that allow repo rules and module extensions to run a WebAssembly binary. These methods are only available if --experimental_repository_ctx_execute_wasm is set. (#26280)
  • User-provided repo names may now start with a number. (#26252)
  • Added a "hidden" lockfile under the output base that contains the output of reproducible module extensions for performance. (#26195)

Performance

  • Add executable to stateful runfiles if necessary, avoiding a very costly check during analysis. (#26288)

Refer to the full list of commits for more details.

Acknowledgements:

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Aaron Levy, Adin Cebic, Benji Vos, benjivos, David Sanderson, Fabian Meumertzheim, Farid Zakaria, Greg, helly25, Jaden Peterson, Jim Carroll, John Millikin, Jordan Mele, Keith Smiley, Zhongpeng Lin, and Alberto Cavalcante.

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