Release 6.2.1 - June 2023

[iancha1992]

Status of Bazel 6.2.1

• Expected first release candidate date: 2023-05-26
• Expected release date: 2023-06-02
• 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 6.2.1, simply send a PR against the release-6.2.1 branch.

Task list:

• Create release candidate
• Check downstream projects
• Create draft release announcement
• Push the release and notify package maintainers
• Update the release page

[Pavank1992]

Bazel 6.2.1rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/6.2.1/rc1/index.html

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

[iancha1992]

Bazel 6.2.1rc2 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from:
https://releases.bazel.build/6.2.1/rc2/index.html

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

[iancha1992]

6.2.1 is out:

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/tag/6.2.1
https://releases.bazel.build/6.2.1/release/index.html
cc @excitoon @vbatts for updating the Scoop and Fedora packages. Thank you.