v1.27.0

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Bazelisk v1.27.0 comes with a few improvements:

New Features (Go)

• Bazelisk now offers the bazelisk completion bash/fish command to print shell completion scripts for the current Bazel version (#​706).

Bug Fixes & Improvements (Go)

• Allow --bisect to be interrupted (#​692).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​chenrui333, @​fmeum, @​jln-ho, @​kolloch and @​thii!

v1.26.0

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Bazelisk v1.26.0 comes with several improvements:

New Features (Go)

• Implemented option to disable format URL support (#​662).

Bug Fixes & Improvements (Go)

• Fixed a bug that prevented Bazelisk from being used as a Go dependency via gazelle's go_deps extension (#​649).
• Improved signal handling (#​657, #​658).
• Improved documentation on how to install Bazelisk on Windows (#​668).
• Restored debugging symbols in Windows binaries (#​669).
• Improved --migrate mode (#​678).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​albertocavalcante, @​bduffany, @​fmeum and @​tats-u!

v1.25.0

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Bazelisk v1.25.0 comes with several improvements:

New Features (Python)

• Added support for .bazeliskrc files (#​494).

Bug Fixes & Improvements (Go)

• Made it easier for other tools to use Bazelisk's core logic to locate (and download) Bazel binaries (#​635).
• Fixed errors when multiple Bazelisk instances were running in parallel (#​638).
• Improved signal handling (#​642).
• bazelisk version now also prints the Bazelisk version even if startup flags are set (#​646).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​hauserx, @​jwnimmer-tri and @​shs96c!

v1.24.1

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Bazelisk v1.24.1 is a patch release with some minor fixes:

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• bisect now accepts Bazel release branch names (#​633).
• Improved error message when LTS binaries are missing (#​639).
• Fixed a performance regression caused by too many unnecessary HTTP requests, which was introduced in v1.24.0 (#​641).

We’d like to thank our amazing users & contributors!

v1.24.0

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Bazelisk v1.24.0 comes with a new feature:

New Features (Go)

• Implemented support for a new wildcard version identifier: Users may now specify a version like 7.* that refers to the latest release or candidate from the given LTS track. Please note that this is different from the existing 7.x identifier which only matches releases, but not candidates (#​636).

We’d like to thank our amazing users & contributors!

Known issue: #​640

v1.23.0

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Bazelisk v1.23.0 comes with several improvements related to downloads:

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Improved download error messages (#​624)
• Fixed INTERNAL_ERROR problems caused by improper handling of HTTP responses during retries (#​627)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​jjmaestro and @​jwnimmer-tri!

v1.22.1

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Bazelisk v1.22.1 is a patch release with the following changes:

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Multiple instances of Bazelisk can now run concurrently without causing problems (#​616).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributor @​sushain97!

v1.22.0

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Bazelisk v1.22.0 comes with several significant changes:

New Features (Go)

• Bazelisk sets the BAZELISK env variable so that scripts can detect whether they're running under Bazelisk (#​612)
• --bisect now supports finding the first fixing commit by prefixing the range with ~ (#​613)

Removed Features (Go)

• Removed support for last_downstream_green since the downstream pipeline stopped producing green commits some time ago.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Improved last_green support (#​614)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​fmeum and @​jwnimmer-tri!

v1.21.0

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Bazelisk v1.21.0 comes with several significant changes:

New Features (Go)

• Users can set an OS-specific Bazelisk home directory, e.g. via BAZELISK_HOME_WINDOWS (#​474)
• BAZELISK_WRAPPER_DIRECTORY allows users to specify paths other than the default tools/bazel location (#​567)
• BAZELISK_HOME: Environment variables as well as the tilde sign are now properly expanded (#​587)
• Bazelisk can fetch Linux ARM64 Bazel binaries built for commits (#​604)

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• The Python version properly handles empty lines in .bazelversion files (#​576)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​albertocavalcante, @​API92, @​jwnimmer-tri, @​keith and @​mzapotoczny!

v1.20.0

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Bazelisk v1.20.0 comes with several significant changes:

New Features

• The Go version now supports BAZELISK_NOJDK (#​531)

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• It's now easier to use Bazelisk programmatically (#​500, #​526)
• Bazelisk will retry more connection errors (#​529, #​530)
• A display bug in the download progress bar has been fixed (#​539)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​afq984, @​comius, @​francine-blanc, @​illicitonion, @​jwnimmer-tri, @​LINKIWI, @​mmorel-35 and @​sf-jbazuzi!

v1.19.0

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Bazelisk v1.19.0 comes with two significant changes:

• MODULE.bazel and REPO.bazel files are now obeyed (#​503)
• Users will see a progress bar during binary downloads (#​511)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​crncnnr and @​katre!

v1.18.0

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Bazelisk v1.18.0 contains some bug fixes and internal cleanups. Most notably, it uses consistent Bazel paths to avoid spurious rebuilds when downloading the same Bazel binary from a different mirror (#​465).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​alexeagle, @​fmeum, @​illicitonion, @​sluongng and @​wisechengyi!

v1.17.0

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Bazelisk v1.17.0 comes with updated dependencies, minor bug fixes and new features:

The Go version...

• ... supports custom download URLs via the BAZELISK_FORMAT_URL env variable (#​427)
• ... now only downloads Bazel when necessary (#​438)
• ... can check the hash of downloaded binaries via the BAZELISK_VERIFY_SHA256 env variable (#​441)
• ... makes it easier to find out which Bazel change broke your build with the --bisect option (#​451)
• ... is more robust in the face of transient GCS download issues (#​459)

The Python version now properly recognises WORKSPACE.bazel files (#​443).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​jmmv and @​jwnimmer-tri!

v1.16.0

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Bazelisk v1.16.0 comes with updated dependencies, minor bug fixes and some improvements:

The Go version...

• ... no longer causes 'file name too long' errors on MacOS (#​396),
• ... works correctly when no GitHub token is specified (#​412),
• ... now supports tools/bazel.ps1 and tools/bazel.bat on Windows (#​417).

The Python version now works on Linux arm64 machines (#​397).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​bduffany, @​chenrui333, @​gregmagolan, @​rpwoodbu, @​sudowork and @​UebelAndre !

v1.15.0

v1.15.0 comes with several notable changes to the Go version of Bazelisk:

• Features:
  • Added support for users-specific .bazeliskrc files, in addition to .bazeliskrc files in the workspace root (#​390).
• Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where Bazelisk ignored the tools/bazel wrapper (#​345).
  • Startup options are now correctly passed to bazel clean and bazel shutdown, thus ensuring that the commands affect the correct Bazel server (#​362).
  • Suppressed incorrect fallback warnings on Apple Silicon when fetching Bazel binaries built at specific commits (#​392).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @​JaredNeil, @​jbms, @​LINKIWI, @​meteorcloudy and @​Vertexwahn!

v1.14.0

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This release brings two small improvements:

• On Linux, Bazelisk now downloads Bazel binaries built on CentOS 7, thus ensuring compatibility with older Ubuntu versions such as 14.04 and 16.04.
• Everyone who uses Bazelisk as a library can now dynamically compute Bazel flags based on the resolved Bazel version. (#​358). Thank you @​tjgq!

v1.13.2

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This release fixes performance issues when using floating version identifiers (e.g. "5.x").

We'd like to thank @​chenrui333 for their contributions to this release.

v1.13.1

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This patch release fixes "go build" / "go get" of Bazelisk. Unfortunately v1.13.0 could only be built with Bazel.

v1.13.0

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This release makes it easier to run Bazel with incompatible flags by introducing the BAZELISK_INCOMPATIBLE_FLAGS environment variable (#​349).

It also contains some minor maintenance / cleanup changes.

v1.12.2

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This is a patch release that improves error messages wrt unsupported arm64 platforms.

v1.12.1

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This is a patch release for v1.12.0 which fixes the 404 download errors on Linux (#​346).

It also introduces custom fallback behavior (#​289) and fixes the handling of SIGINT (#​322).

We'd like to thank our contributors @​bb010g and @​gibfahn.

v1.12.0

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This release brings new features and fixes to both versions of Bazelisk:

Go:

• Added support for basic HTTP authentication via a .netrc file (#​292)
• Improved and fixed Apple Silicon support (#​299, #​303)
• Rolling releases are now fetched from GCS instead of GitHub (#​319)

Python:

• Added support for Apple Silicon (#​272)
• Implemented verification of downloaded Bazel binaries (#​295)

We'd like to thank our contributors @​chenrui333, @​codeman9, @​cpsauer, @​keith, @​linzhp, @​Warchant and @​xinnjie!

v1.11.0

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This release of Bazelisk contains some smaller fixes and improvements, as well as two new features in the Go version:

• #​278: Support floating release identifiers (e.g. 5.x)
• #​280: Add support for patch versions of Bazel (e.g. 1.2.3-patch4)

We'd like to thank our contributors @​alexeagle, @​changlan, @​dmitris, @​josephperrott, @​linzhp and @​UebelAndre.

v1.10.1

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This is a minor release of Bazelisk. The only difference to v1.10.0 is that we finally implemented a proper HTTP request retry mechanism (#​256 and #​257).

v1.10.0

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This release contains the following major changes:

• #​248: No longer get incompatible flags from GitHub
• #​252: Make the HTTP user agent configurable
• #​253: Bump github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go from 0.27.0 to 0.28.0

v1.9.0

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This Bazelisk release contains the following changes:

• #​238: Properly handle pagination when GCS doesn't give us full results.
• #​241: Implement pagination support for GitHub repos.
• #​242: Provide ARM releases (for Mac M1).

I also bumped the tools used to build this release to Bazel 4.1.0, Go 1.16.4, rules_go 0.27.0.

v1.8.1

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This Bazelisk release contains the following changes:

• #​237: Fixes a bug where last_rc would pick the wrong release when rolling releases were available on GCS.

v1.8.0

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This Bazelisk release contains the following changes:

• #​224: Add support for Bazel rolling releases.
• #​218: Fixed workspace root detection by ignoring directories. (thanks @​avidal!)

v1.7.5

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v1.7.5 is a minor patch release that restores Go 1.11 compatibility.