Release 7.3.2 - October 2024

[iancha1992]

Status of Bazel 7.3.2

• Expected first release candidate date: 2024-10-02
• Expected release date: 2024-10-09
• 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 7.3.2, simply send a PR against the release-7.3.2 branch.

Task list:

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

[iancha1992]

Bazel 7.3.2rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from here: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/tag/7.3.2rc1
If you're using Bazelisk, you can point to this RC by setting USE_BAZEL_VERSION=7.3.2rc1.

Please test it out and report any issues here as soon as possible.
A draft of the release notes can be found here.

Thanks!