State of the Union
summary
Bazel ships a usable vendor mode for offline dependency downloads, a new lockfile format plus a gmerge driver to reduce merge conflicts, and a plan to disable workspace by default in Bazel 8 and remove it in Bazel 9. Remote output service and a BB clientD expose intermediate outputs; the execution log is now ~100x smaller with <3% runtime overhead. Local action results upload in the background, disk-cache garbage collection runs offline, 250k lines of kernel code are removed, and one contributor made 423 merged commits.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:54Top contributors
- 2:15Dependency management
- 5:00Workspace migration
- 6:04Cache and security
- 7:05Remote execution
- 11:02Build rules progress
- 14:13Extensibility
- 18:02Kernel simplification
- 20:06Flag management
- 22:17Bazel 8 release
- 23:23Q&A
