Release 6.4.0 - October 2023

[iancha1992]

Status of Bazel 6.4.0

• Expected first release candidate date: 2023-10-10
• Expected release date: 2023-10-19
• 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 6.4.0, simply send a PR against the release-6.4.0 branch.

Task list:

• Create release candidate
• Check downstream projects
• Create draft release announcement
• Push the release and notify package maintainers
• Update the documentation
• Update the release page

[werkt]

Requesting 6.4.0 incorporation of remote fixes with #18959

[iancha1992]

The expected first release candidate date has moved to 9/19/2023. There are 2 release blockers. They are currently WIP to be merged to master before being cherry-picked to release-6.4.0.

[iancha1992]

Bazel 6.4.0rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/6.4.0/rc1/index.html

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

[sluongng]

https://releases.bazel.build/6.4.0/rc1/index.html The font in here looks weird

[Wyverald]

https://releases.bazel.build/6.4.0/rc1/index.html The font in here looks weird

It's always been like this. We can look at improving those pages.