Release 8.0.0-pre.20240812.1 (2024-08-15)

Baseline: 133eb60

New features:

  - aspects can now return DefaultInfo, which will then be merged
    with that of the configured target they are applied to.
    Currently, only the files= field is supported.

Important changes:

  - BEP will include correct \`TestResult\` and \`TargetSummary\`
    events when special test inputs like \`$test_runtime\` fail to
    build.
  - Improve progress message in case there are no actions in flight,
    and display explicitly "no actions running" in that case.
  - The new `cc_static_library` rule produces a static library that
    bundles given targets and all their transitive dependencies. It
    has to be enabled via `--experimental_cc_static_library`.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim, FaBrand, Jiawen (Kevin) Chen, Son Luong Ngoc, Victor Hiairrassary.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,73 @@
+## Release 8.0.0-pre.20240812.1 (2024-08-15)
+
+```
+Baseline: 133eb60925496e3153bcc7903968b4eeb6d16068
+```
+
+New features:
+
+  - aspects can now return DefaultInfo, which will then be merged
+    with that of the configured target they are applied to.
+    Currently, only the files= field is supported.
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - BEP will include correct \`TestResult\` and \`TargetSummary\`
+    events when special test inputs like \`$test_runtime\` fail to
+    build.
+  - Improve progress message in case there are no actions in flight,
+    and display explicitly "no actions running" in that case.
+  - The new `cc_static_library` rule produces a static library that
+    bundles given targets and all their transitive dependencies. It
+    has to be enabled via `--experimental_cc_static_library`.
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim, FaBrand, Jiawen (Kevin) Chen, Son Luong Ngoc, Victor Hiairrassary.
+
+## Release 8.0.0-pre.20240807.1 (2024-08-13)
+
+```
+Baseline: 300c5867b7d2da1ba32abc20e95662096c2a7a08
+```
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - Bazel no longer has the android_ndk_repository rule. Use
+    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_android_ndk instead. See
+    https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/23199
+  - Bazel no longer has the android_local_test rule. Use
+    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_android instead. See
+    https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/23199
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim, JKutscha, Xdng Yng.
+
+## Release 7.3.0 (2024-08-12)
+
+```
+
+Release Notes:
+
+```
+
+## Release 8.0.0-pre.20240805.3 (2024-08-12)
+
+```
+Baseline: 914db36648ef734b9b534d2a37907b9505534399
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + 7e689a55ccdcd752c102d25fe9acb257bd7d881c:
+     Be resilient to outdated exec paths in action cache entries
+```
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - The format of canonical repo names has changed to use plus (`+`)
+    instead of tilde (`~`). Effectively, this flips the flag
+    `--incompatible_use_plus_in_repo_names` to true, and the flag is
+    now a no-op (i.e. cannot be "unflipped").
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim, Jordan Mele, Laurent Le Brun, Xdng Yng.
+
 ## Release 8.0.0-pre.20240730.1 (2024-08-06)
 
 ```