Release 6.1.2 - April 2023

[keertk]

Status of Bazel 6.1.2

• Expected release date: 2023-04-18
• 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 6.1.2, simply send a PR against the release-6.1.2 branch.

Task list:

• Create draft release announcement
• Push the release and notify package maintainers
• Update the release page

[ShreeM01]

Bazel 6.1.2rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/6.1.2/rc1/index.html

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

[keertk]

6.1.2 RC2 is now available and can be downloaded from https://releases.bazel.build/6.1.2/rc2/index.html

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

[keertk]

6.1.2 is out:

• https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/tag/6.1.2
• https://releases.bazel.build/6.1.2/release/index.html

cc @petemounce @excitoon @vbatts for updating the Chocolatey, Scoop, and Fedora packages. Thank you.

[petemounce]

Released. Ping for @meteorcloudy + bazelbuild/continuous-integration#1456?

[darrenrabbs]

I recently upgraded to this version, but I am seeing issues using bazel coverage , this was previously working with 5.4.1.
Seeing empty coverage.dat files - any update on #18833 would be great. Do we have any workarounds for this ?

[keertk]

Hi @c-mita could you help with this? ^

[c-mita]

"empty coverage.dat files" is too vague to do anything with. What are you actually doing?