[build] Roll bazel 7.3.1:7.4.1

- Enable BwoB on Windows again now that bazelbuild/bazel#23462
has been fixed.

.bazelrc

@@ -14,14 +14,11 @@ common --noenable_bzlmod
 
 # bazel7 enables Build without the Bytes (BwoB) by default. This significantly speeds up builds
 # using the remote cache since less data needs to be fetched. Set remote_cache_eviction_retries
-# just in case there are cache evictions during the build.
-build --experimental_remote_cache_eviction_retries=3
+# which is required to fully support a "dumb" cache. Bazel 8 already sets this value by default.
+build --experimental_remote_cache_eviction_retries=5
 # Note that we use remote_download_minimal for test builds, which avoids fetching build outputs
 # where possible. While several previous BwoB bugs have been fixed, this is slower than it could be
 # due to https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/20576.
-# Windows build is failing on some runs due to FileAccessException errors, Bazel has had several
-# similar bugs in the past. Disable BwoB for now.
-build:windows --remote_download_all
 
 # Import CI-specific configuration. As the amount of custom configuration settings we use grows,
 # consider moving more flags out to separate files.

.bazelversion

@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.3.1
+7.4.1rc2

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ jobs:
           - os:     { name: linux, image: ubuntu-20.04 }
             config: { suffix: -asan }
           # Windows has a custom non-debug bazel config.
-          # As of 7.2.1 support for Bazel remote cache BwoB is broken on Windows, likely due to
-          # disk I/O race conditions causing permission denied errors (this also happened in
-          # previous versions). Use remote_download_all for now.
           - os:     { name : windows, image : windows-2022 }
             config: { suffix: '' }
           # TODO (later): The custom Windows-debug configuration consistently runs out of disk

build/ci.bazelrc

@@ -71,7 +71,5 @@ build:ci-macOS --copt=-UDEBUG
 
 build:ci-macOS-debug --config=debug
 
-build:ci-windows-common --remote_download_all
-
 build:ci-windows --config=windows_no_dbg --config=ci-windows-common
 build:ci-windows-debug --config=debug --config=ci-windows-common