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!
Probably every Bazel user has experienced builds that were slow or slower than anticipated. In this blog post we will provide a list of options on how to gain more insights into the performance of a Bazel build.
Welcome to the August issue of the Bazel Community Round-up, where we collect and share content about Bazel over the month.
Bazel 5.3 is a minor LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 5.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.
Welcome to the first issue of the Bazel Community Round-up, where we collect and share content about Bazel over the month. Read on!
Announcing Bazel & JetBrains co-maintenance of IntelliJ IDEA Bazel Plugin