Status of Bazel 5.0

• Target baseline: 2021-10-25
• Expected release date: 2022-01-19
• 5.0 release blockers

To report a release-blocking bug, please add it to the 5.0 release blocker milestone, and cc me.

Task list:

• Pick release baseline: 8d66a41
• Create release candidate: 5.0.0rc1
• Check downstream projects:
• Create draft release announcement
• Send for review the release announcement PR: add blog post for 5.0 release bazel-blog#263
• Push the release, notify package maintainers: Release 5.0 - January 2022 #14013 (comment)
• Update the documentation
• Push the blog post
• Update the release page