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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• bazel-8.7.0

Projektgeschichte

Bazel 8.0 LTS was released on December 9, 2024. The official release post describes it as a streamlining release with Bzlmod as the default for dependency management and major bundled rulesets split into Starlark modules.

The release post says Bzlmod began as an experimental feature in Bazel 5, became generally available in Bazel 6, was turned on in Bazel 7, and in Bazel 8 works with the old WORKSPACE mechanism turned off by default.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Bazel 8 adoption was tied to migration work: repositories needed to move external dependencies from WORKSPACE to MODULE.bazel/Bzlmod and prepare for Bazel 9's planned removal of WORKSPACE functionality.

The official Bazel 8 release post reported the Bazel Central Registry hosting more than 500 modules with 2500+ versions, showing that the module ecosystem had become broad enough to support default Bzlmod workflows.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users install bazel@8 when they want the Bazel 8 LTS behavior without jumping to the latest unversioned Bazel formula. This is useful for CI images, reproducible developer setup, and staged migration to Bzlmod and Starlark-loaded rules.

Bazel 8 workspaces commonly pair the versioned binary with .bazelrc flags, MODULE.bazel, Bazel Central Registry modules, and Bazelisk-managed version pinning.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

bazel@8 is historically significant because it packages the moment Bazel's external dependency system crossed from optional migration to default behavior.

It also shows why build tools keep versioned formulas: a Bazel major version encodes ecosystem compatibility decisions, not merely executable features.

Zeitleiste

• 2021: Bzlmod is introduced experimentally in the Bazel 5 era, according to the Bazel 8 release post.
• 2023-12: Bazel 7 turns Bzlmod on by default.
• 2024-12-09: Bazel 8.0 LTS is released.
• 2024-12: Bazel 8 stops automatically reading WORKSPACE and WORKSPACE.bzlmod by default.
• 2026: The input's Homebrew metadata shows bazel@8 still packaged as a versioned formula with Bazel 8.7.x executables.

Related projects

• Bazelisk is commonly used to pin Bazel 8 in repository-local .bazelversion files.
• Bazel Central Registry is the module ecosystem that makes Bazel 8's default Bzlmod workflow practical.
• bazel-remote remains important for Bazel 8 users because remote caching and Build without the Bytes are central to modern Bazel performance.

Quellen

• Upstream git tag history for https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/tree/8.0.0 confirms the 2024-12-09 release tag.
• https://bazel.build/versions/8.7.0/docs provides official Bazel 8 documentation.
• https://bazel.build/versions/8.7.0/run/bazelrc documents Bazel 8 bazelrc locations.
• https://blog.bazel.build/2024/12/09/bazel-8-release.html documents the Bazel 8.0 LTS release, Bzlmod/WORKSPACE changes, ruleset modularization, and BCR module counts.
• source_facts.package-manager records versioned package availability.