Dear Bazel Community,
Welcome to the Q1 2023 edition of the Bazel Plugin for IntelliJ Community Update!
Welcome to the Q1 '23 edition of the Bazel community update! Our goal is to build a stronger community and encourage more participation by keeping you informed on what’s happening in this space.
We are excited to announce that GitHub Discussions is now enabled for the Bazel GitHub project. This is a new channel for the Bazel community to collaborate, share ideas, ask questions, and provide feedback on the Bazel project, all without the need to open issues.
Over the past few years, we have noticed several languishing issues and pull requests on repositories across the Bazel GitHub organization. While some have stalled without updates from authors, others have languished due to limited bandwidth and resources on the Bazel team’s end. In late 2022, we prioritized an effort to periodically review old issues/PRs and close them out as needed. Our apologies for the late communication on this process.
On 2023-01-30, many Bazel users encountered build errors due to a change in GitHub's source archive generation mechanism. The change, since rolled back, caused all source archives (not release archives) to have a different checksum, despite their contents being unchanged. This caused an outage for several package management systems that relied on stable checksums, including Bazel.
A modified version of this blog was originally sent out to the IntelliJ Plugin distribution list on December 15, 2022.
Last year, we made significant changes to Bazel’s documentation website (bazel.build) to elevate overall developer experience. By redesigning the site’s architecture, we’ve made it easier for the community to contribute new documentation and add more content.
We're thrilled to announce the official launch of the Bazel Central Registry (BCR). As the default Bazel registry for the Bzlmod external dependency system, which enters general availability with Bazel 6.0, the BCR is the recommended place to publish and discover Bazel modules.
Bazel 6.0 launched!