v1.23.0

Bazelisk v1.23.0 comes with several improvements related to downloads:

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Improved download error messages (#624)
• Fixed INTERNAL_ERROR problems caused by improper handling of HTTP responses during retries (#627)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @jjmaestro and @jwnimmer-tri!

v1.22.1

Bazelisk v1.22.1 is a patch release with the following changes:

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Multiple instances of Bazelisk can now run concurrently without causing problems (#616).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributor @sushain97!

v1.22.0

Bazelisk v1.22.0 comes with several significant changes:

New Features (Go)

• Bazelisk sets the BAZELISK env variable so that scripts can detect whether they're running under Bazelisk (#612)
• --bisect now supports finding the first fixing commit by prefixing the range with ~ (#613)

Removed Features (Go)

• Removed support for last_downstream_green since the downstream pipeline stopped producing green commits some time ago.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Improved last_green support (#614)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @fmeum and @jwnimmer-tri!

v1.21.0

Bazelisk v1.21.0 comes with several significant changes:

New Features (Go)

• Users can set an OS-specific Bazelisk home directory, e.g. via BAZELISK_HOME_WINDOWS (#474)
• BAZELISK_WRAPPER_DIRECTORY allows users to specify paths other than the default tools/bazel location (#567)
• BAZELISK_HOME: Environment variables as well as the tilde sign are now properly expanded (#587)
• Bazelisk can fetch Linux ARM64 Bazel binaries built for commits (#604)

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• The Python version properly handles empty lines in .bazelversion files (#576)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @albertocavalcante, @API92, @jwnimmer-tri, @keith and @mzapotoczny!

v1.20.0

Bazelisk v1.20.0 comes with several significant changes:

New Features

• The Go version now supports BAZELISK_NOJDK (#531)

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• It's now easier to use Bazelisk programmatically (#500, #526)
• Bazelisk will retry more connection errors (#529, #530)
• A display bug in the download progress bar has been fixed (#539)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @afq984, @comius, @francine-blanc, @illicitonion, @jwnimmer-tri, @LINKIWI, @mmorel-35 and @sf-jbazuzi!

v1.19.0

Bazelisk v1.19.0 comes with two significant changes:

• MODULE.bazel and REPO.bazel files are now obeyed (#503)
• Users will see a progress bar during binary downloads (#511)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @crncnnr and @katre!

v1.18.0

Bazelisk v1.18.0 contains some bug fixes and internal cleanups. Most notably, it uses consistent Bazel paths to avoid spurious rebuilds when downloading the same Bazel binary from a different mirror (#465).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @alexeagle, @fmeum, @illicitonion, @sluongng and @wisechengyi!

v1.17.0

Bazelisk v1.17.0 comes with updated dependencies, minor bug fixes and new features:

The Go version...

• ... supports custom download URLs via the BAZELISK_FORMAT_URL env variable (#427)
• ... now only downloads Bazel when necessary (#438)
• ... can check the hash of downloaded binaries via the BAZELISK_VERIFY_SHA256 env variable (#441)
• ... makes it easier to find out which Bazel change broke your build with the --bisect option (#451)
• ... is more robust in the face of transient GCS download issues (#459)

The Python version now properly recognises WORKSPACE.bazel files (#443).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @jmmv and @jwnimmer-tri!

v1.16.0

Bazelisk v1.16.0 comes with updated dependencies, minor bug fixes and some improvements:

The Go version...

• ... no longer causes 'file name too long' errors on MacOS (#396),
• ... works correctly when no GitHub token is specified (#412),
• ... now supports tools/bazel.ps1 and tools/bazel.bat on Windows (#417).

The Python version now works on Linux arm64 machines (#397).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @bduffany, @chenrui333, @gregmagolan, @rpwoodbu, @sudowork and @UebelAndre !

v1.15.0

v1.15.0 comes with several notable changes to the Go version of Bazelisk:

• Features:
  • Added support for users-specific .bazeliskrc files, in addition to .bazeliskrc files in the workspace root (#390).
• Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where Bazelisk ignored the tools/bazel wrapper (#345).
  • Startup options are now correctly passed to bazel clean and bazel shutdown, thus ensuring that the commands affect the correct Bazel server (#362).
  • Suppressed incorrect fallback warnings on Apple Silicon when fetching Bazel binaries built at specific commits (#392).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @JaredNeil, @jbms, @LINKIWI, @meteorcloudy and @Vertexwahn!