Release 8.4.2 (2025-10-01)

Release Notes:

Author: Bazel Release System

CHANGELOG.md

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+## Release 8.4.2 (2025-10-01)
+
+```
+
+Release Notes:
+
+```
+
+## Release 9.0.0-pre.20250916.1 (2025-09-26)
+
+```
+Baseline: 9b54736af5729536d61550ebbd98ed6fe991db51
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + 5639134ce52acad91dc235aaf7df3e73b1cf0da3:
+     Fix load statements for Java
+```
+
+Incompatible changes:
+
+  - Bazel releases that include a bundled JDK now use the system
+    trust store for certificates by default. Set `-Djavax....
+  - autoloads are disabled, issue
+    https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/23043
+  - A `single_version_override` that pins a module to a lower version
+    than requested in a `bazel_dep` for that module now results in an
+    error instead of silently ignoring the `bazel_dep` version
+    requirement. This is meant to catch a common source of bugs when
+    updating a `bazel_dep` without noticing that it is overridden.
+  - Starlark list methods don't accept Nones.
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - The following rules have been removed from Bazel and must be
+    loaded from `@rules_cc`: `cc_binary`, `cc_import`, `cc_library`,
+    `cc_shared_library`, `cc_shared_library`, `cc_static_library`,
+    `cc_test`, `cc_toolchain`, `cc_toolchain_alias`, `objc_import`,
+    `objc_library`, `fdo_prefetch_hints`, `fdo_profile`,
+    `memprof_profile`, `propeller_optimize`
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Alex Eagle, Benjamin Peterson, Carmen Chui, dependabot[bot], Fabian Meumertzheim, Grzegorz Lukasik, Keith Smiley.
+
+## Release 9.0.0-pre.20250908.2 (2025-09-22)
+
+```
+Baseline: 06b2d43d58bf9bdd274eddc24486a5edce6632ec
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + 2b64ae49d190fa5e437656e1dd96f811fcc10a2b:
+     Automated rollback of commit
+     585e16c701a6eef9a0b96cce31cae56893f04278.
+   + db5e1b607d89add00669ae698bb3f589272325ed:
+     Automated rollback of commit
+     d96e067331680dd4dec9fb391ed148d90daafbf8.
+   + 081752428582c6fde18671600071a81b10b7c71a:
+     Fix windows build for Rolling Release
+     release-9.0.0-pre.20250908.2rc1 (#27036)
+   + cac9c95fbacaa4def7304ed42fcffff94a90e8a5:
+     Release 9.0.0-pre.20250908.2 (2025-09-22)
+```
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Carmen Chui.
+
+## Release 9.0.0-pre.20250908.2 (2025-09-22)
+
+```
+Baseline: 06b2d43d58bf9bdd274eddc24486a5edce6632ec
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + 2b64ae49d190fa5e437656e1dd96f811fcc10a2b:
+     Automated rollback of commit
+     585e16c701a6eef9a0b96cce31cae56893f04278.
+   + db5e1b607d89add00669ae698bb3f589272325ed:
+     Automated rollback of commit
+     d96e067331680dd4dec9fb391ed148d90daafbf8.
+   + 081752428582c6fde18671600071a81b10b7c71a:
+     Fix windows build for Rolling Release
+     release-9.0.0-pre.20250908.2rc1 (#27036)
+```
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Carmen Chui.
+
+## Release 9.0.0-pre.20250908.2 (2025-09-22)
+
+```
+Baseline: 06b2d43d58bf9bdd274eddc24486a5edce6632ec
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + 2b64ae49d190fa5e437656e1dd96f811fcc10a2b:
+     Automated rollback of commit
+     585e16c701a6eef9a0b96cce31cae56893f04278.
+   + db5e1b607d89add00669ae698bb3f589272325ed:
+     Automated rollback of commit
+     d96e067331680dd4dec9fb391ed148d90daafbf8.
+```
+
+Incompatible changes:
+
+  - range doesn't accept None as second argument
+  - Starlark string.split, string.rsplit don't accept None as argument
+
+New features:
+
+  - "blaze info install_md5" is now available to tell the logical
+    checksum of the Blaze server. This is mostly intended as a
+    debugging aid.
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - The contents of source directories are now tracked for
+    invalidation. Using `glob` or explicit lists of files to consume
+    source directories is still strongly preferred, but there may be
+    cases in which this isn't feasible (e.g. file names that aren't
+    valid labels).
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim, Keith Smiley.
+
+## Release 9.0.0-pre.20250831.1 (2025-09-12)
+
+```
+Baseline: d1c7409e60fdc72de3705994917dbc24785039f3
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + 76dae3af442a2a206a89237cb7c143e7cd524f89:
+     Fix windows build with Bazel@HEAD for Rolling Release
+     release-9.0.0-pre.20250831.1rc1 (#26947)
+```
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Carmen Chui.
+
 ## Release 8.4.1 (2025-09-11)
 
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