Release 5.4.0 - December 2022 #16663

ShreeM01 · 2022-11-04T20:40:19Z

Status of Bazel 5.4.0

Expected release date: 2022-12-15
List of release blockers

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

To cherry-pick a mainline commit into 5.4, simply send a PR against the release-5.4.0 branch.

Task list:

Create draft release announcement
Send for review the release announcement PR
Push the release, notify package maintainers
Update the documentation
~~Push the blog post~~
Update the release page

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aiuto · 2022-11-30T21:50:03Z

Is there an updated timeline for this? Is there a public list of changes we want to hold the release for?

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:40 PM kshyanashree ***@***.***> wrote: Status of Bazel 5.4.0 - Expected release date: Next week - List of release blockers <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/milestone/45> To report a release-blocking bug, please add a comment with the text @bazel-io flag to the issue. A release manager will triage it and add it to the milestone. To cherry-pick a mainline commit into 5.4, simply send a PR against the release-5.4.0 branch. Task list: - Create draft release announcement <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wDvulLlj4NAlPZamdlEVFORks3YXJonCjyuQMUQEmB0/edit> - Send for review the release announcement PR: - Push the release, notify package maintainers: - Update the documentation - Push the blog post - Update the release page <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16663>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAXHHHETFF245WPAFT44T3LWGVYERANCNFSM6AAAAAARXRGTBA> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

keertk · 2022-11-30T22:08:27Z

Hi @aiuto We're creating the first release candidate for 5.4.0 soon (today or tomorrow) and hopefully we push out the final release sometime next week. There are no open release blockers at the moment, but let us know if there's anything else that you'd like to include.
Draft release notes can be found here.

cc @kshyanashree @meteorcloudy @Wyverald

aiuto · 2022-11-30T22:15:46Z

+Radhika Advani ***@***.***> +Yun Peng ***@***.***> But what I should have asked is "who is the release manager?" Someone should be vetting all backported features and fixes so that we know they are relevant and don't break backwards compatibility.

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 4:49 PM Tony Aiuto ***@***.***> wrote: Is there an updated timeline for this? Is there a public list of changes we want to hold the release for? On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:40 PM kshyanashree ***@***.***> wrote: > Status of Bazel 5.4.0 > > - Expected release date: Next week > - List of release blockers > <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/milestone/45> > > To report a release-blocking bug, please add a comment with the text @bazel-io > flag to the issue. A release manager will triage it and add it to the > milestone. > > To cherry-pick a mainline commit into 5.4, simply send a PR against the > release-5.4.0 branch. > > Task list: > > - Create draft release announcement > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wDvulLlj4NAlPZamdlEVFORks3YXJonCjyuQMUQEmB0/edit> > - Send for review the release announcement PR: > - Push the release, notify package maintainers: > - Update the documentation > - Push the blog post > - Update the release page > <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/> > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#16663>, or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAXHHHETFF245WPAFT44T3LWGVYERANCNFSM6AAAAAARXRGTBA> > . > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message > ID: ***@***.***> >

aiuto · 2022-11-30T23:04:45Z

OK. I have 2 PRs in flight now.

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 5:08 PM keertk ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @aiuto <https://github.com/aiuto> We're creating the first release candidate for 5.4.0 soon (today or tomorrow) and hopefully we push out the final release sometime next week. There are no open release blockers <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/milestone/45> at the moment, but let us know if there's anything else that you'd like to include. Draft release notes can be found here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pu2ARPweOCTxPsRR8snoDtkC9R51XWRyBXeiC6Ql5so/edit#heading=h.1ldj0zgvx6cd> . cc @kshyanashree <https://github.com/kshyanashree> @meteorcloudy <https://github.com/meteorcloudy> @Wyverald <https://github.com/Wyverald> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16663 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAXHHHB4M3F6TJKUM3NUWR3WK7F6NANCNFSM6AAAAAARXRGTBA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

meteorcloudy · 2022-12-01T09:29:18Z

@kshyanashree is managing the release and all cherry picks have been reviewed by a Bazel team member (either the change author or reviewer) to make sure they are backwards compatible.

meteorcloudy · 2022-12-01T09:31:29Z

OK. I have 2 PRs in flight now.

Can you mark those PRs with 5.4.0 release blockers milestone?

aiuto · 2022-12-01T13:49:06Z

Why? They are already in 6.0? I don't understand the connection.

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2022, 4:31 AM Yun Peng ***@***.***> wrote: OK. I have 2 PRs in flight now. Can you mark those PRs with 6.0.0 release blockers milestone? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16663 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAXHHHHOWWPIBVSOQWOTNELWLBV7ZANCNFSM6AAAAAARXRGTBA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

meteorcloudy · 2022-12-01T14:09:11Z

Sorry, I meant 5.4.0 release blockers, I updated the comment in the github issue, but maybe you received the old comment in email.

ShreeM01 · 2022-12-01T14:43:16Z

Bazel 5.4.0rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/5.4.0/rc1/index.html

Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible.

aiuto · 2022-12-01T15:07:44Z

@jon Brandvein ***@***.***> Is there any chance of getting the starlark provider "init" functionality into 5.4?

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 9:43 AM kshyanashree ***@***.***> wrote: Bazel 5.4.0rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out. You can download it from: https://releases.bazel.build/5.4.0/rc1/index.html Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16663 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAXHHHDKVQBJWFFX2MLOLQ3WLC2Q5ANCNFSM6AAAAAARXRGTBA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

Wyverald · 2022-12-01T15:09:03Z

properly cc'ing @brandjon

meteorcloudy · 2022-12-01T15:11:21Z

@aiuto Is the change already in Bazel HEAD? How much work needed for backporting that to 5.4?

aiuto · 2022-12-02T15:05:55Z

The changes are in Bazel, but I don't know the difficulty. I asked about it because: - I tried to use an init method in a provider constructor in rules_license. - that helped improve the security of a rule used for compliance work - but then CI fails because it runs with 5.x So, I could sweep the issue under the rug and wait until CI is all 6.x, but that won't help with having a single rule set that is compatible with 5 and 6. OTOH.... initializers are an obscure feature that helps with visibility protection. Mostly users need it, but rule authors do not. I could make a case that we do not want to put it in 5.x so that we encourage users to migrate to 6.

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 10:11 AM Yun Peng ***@***.***> wrote: @aiuto <https://github.com/aiuto> Is the change already in Bazel HEAD? How much work needed for backporting that to 5.4? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16663 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAXHHHG2GNXSMNYAUEIIQM3WLC52JANCNFSM6AAAAAARXRGTBA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

meteorcloudy · 2022-12-05T14:43:28Z

I could make a case that we do not want to put it in 5.x so that we encourage users to migrate to 6.

OK, then we'll release 5.4.0 as planned. We can encourage users to use 6, and if really necessary we can make a 5.5.0 release for the changes.

comius · 2022-12-08T05:46:12Z

Hey, can we have one more cherry-pick on 5.4.0? The Exec platform per toolchain, needs a new parameter on ctx.actions.run. Adding a no-op parameter would make the migration smoother. But we'd need to cherry-pick it to 6.0.0 as well.

cc @kotlaja

meteorcloudy · 2022-12-08T16:26:41Z

I think it's fine, @comius Can you or @kotlaja send a PR to the release-5.4.0 branch?

kotlaja · 2022-12-08T16:29:23Z

Following @comius comment: a247502. Thanks!

meteorcloudy · 2022-12-08T16:36:04Z

@kshyanashree Can you cherry pick a247502 to both 5.4.0 and 6.0.0?

ShreeM01 · 2022-12-08T16:37:00Z

@kshyanashree Can you cherry pick a247502 to both 5.4.0 and 6.0.0?

Yes @meteorcloudy! I am on it. Thanks :)

ShreeM01 · 2022-12-13T17:45:58Z

Bazel 5.4.0rc2 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/5.4.0/rc2/index.html

Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible.

aiuto · 2022-12-13T18:29:28Z

It looks like there are some UTF-8 manglings in the list of contributors section.

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ShreeM01 · 2022-12-15T18:54:26Z

5.4.0 is now out!

@petemounce Could you please update Chocolatey? Thanks!

@excitoon @vbatts Could you please update Scoop & Fedora package with 5.4.0? Thanks!

petemounce · 2022-12-21T14:52:16Z

Done. Ping for adding into CI cc @meteorcloudy.

ShreeM01 · 2022-12-21T18:20:04Z

Done. Ping for adding into CI cc @meteorcloudy.

Thanks @petemounce!

keertk · 2023-04-06T02:03:10Z

We're working on a patch release (5.4.1) to address a few compatibility issues -- RC1 is now available for those that want to try it out.
You can download it from: https://releases.bazel.build/5.4.1/rc1/index.html
Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible.

Draft release notes can be found here.

aiuto · 2023-04-06T02:41:57Z

We need a better scheme for understanding the release timelines. There are some things I would have backported to 5.x if I had known we were doing a new release. Is a 5.5.0 planned?

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On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 10:03 PM keertk ***@***.***> wrote: We're working on a patch release (5.4.1) to address a few compatibility issues -- RC1 is now available for those that want to try it out. You can download it from: https://releases.bazel.build/5.4.1/rc1/index.html Please report regressions to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues as soon as possible. Release notes can be found here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pu2ARPweOCTxPsRR8snoDtkC9R51XWRyBXeiC6Ql5so/edit#heading=h.6ke4hvqbh7sl> . — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16663 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAXHHHBGXRU6JVPL7LSTEZTW7YP6TANCNFSM6AAAAAARXRGTBA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

keertk · 2023-04-06T02:54:22Z

Hi @aiuto there's no 5.5.0 planned.
We planned to do 5.4.1 just 2 days ago to address some incompatibility issues discussed here: #17958 (comment)

We won't be doing the final 5.4.1 release until at least 7 days from now as per the release policy, so feel free to submit additional PRs to the release-5.4.1 branch if needed. We can create another RC.

keertk · 2023-04-11T16:29:55Z

Release 5.4.1 progress can be tracked here moving forward: #18032

(New patch releases 6.1.2 and 4.2.4 are also currently in the works with the same fixes, fyi)

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