Bazelisk v1.29.0 comes with new features and several improvements:

New Features (Go Binary)

• Official Bazel releases will be authenticated via an embedded verification key (#192).
• Bazelisk now supports the bazeliskVersion command so that users can see the Bazelisk version without having to download/run Bazel (#763).

New Features (Go Library)

• Callers can now capture stderr via an io.Writer (#751).

Bug Fixes & Improvements (Go)

• On non-Windows machines Bazelisk will be run via exec instead of in a subprocess (#566).
• Bazelisk releases now come with sha256 checksums (#770).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @aaron-skydio, @isakstenstrom, @PiotrSikora, @sitaktif and @valco1994!

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Bazelisk v1.28.1 comes with a bug fix:

Bug Fixes & Improvements (Go)

• Fix selection of wrapper scripts on Windows (#762).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributor @valco1994!

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Bazelisk v1.28.0 comes with a new feature and several improvements:

New Features (Go)

• Bazelisk now supports OS/architecture-specific Bazel wrappers (#696).

Bug Fixes & Improvements (Go)

• Properly handle $PATH values containing a = (#720).
• $BAZELISK_BASE_URL: append rc suffix for release candidates (#722).
• Fixed handling of powershell and batch wrappers (#732).
• Updated completion script filename for fish shell (#733).
• $BAZELISK_BASE_URL: added a regression test (#734).
• Docs now mention installation via mise (#739).
• Properly detect rolling release version in a rare edge case. (#745).
• Improved error when completion command is not supported (#747).
• Report a proper exit code when Bazel is terminated by a signal and use exec for bazelisk run on Unix (#757).

Bug Fixes & Improvements (JavaScript)

• Wait for graceful exit of child process during shutdown (#730).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @cerisier, @chrisirhc, @hagl, @jmmv, @jwnimmer-tri, @jylenhof, @oxidase and @valco1994!

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Bazelisk v1.27.0 comes with a few improvements:

New Features (Go)

• Bazelisk now offers the bazelisk completion bash/fish command to print shell completion scripts for the current Bazel version (#706).

Bug Fixes & Improvements (Go)

• Allow --bisect to be interrupted (#692).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @chenrui333, @fmeum, @jln-ho, @kolloch and @thii!

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Bazelisk v1.26.0 comes with several improvements:

New Features (Go)

• Implemented option to disable format URL support (#662).

Bug Fixes & Improvements (Go)

• Fixed a bug that prevented Bazelisk from being used as a Go dependency via gazelle's go_deps extension (#649).
• Improved signal handling (#657, #658).
• Improved documentation on how to install Bazelisk on Windows (#668).
• Restored debugging symbols in Windows binaries (#669).
• Improved --migrate mode (#678).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @albertocavalcante, @bduffany, @fmeum and @tats-u!

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Bazelisk v1.25.0 comes with several improvements:

New Features (Python)

• Added support for .bazeliskrc files (#494).

Bug Fixes & Improvements (Go)

• Made it easier for other tools to use Bazelisk's core logic to locate (and download) Bazel binaries (#635).
• Fixed errors when multiple Bazelisk instances were running in parallel (#638).
• Improved signal handling (#642).
• bazelisk version now also prints the Bazelisk version even if startup flags are set (#646).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @hauserx, @jwnimmer-tri and @shs96c!

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Bazelisk v1.24.1 is a patch release with some minor fixes:

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• bisect now accepts Bazel release branch names (#633).
• Improved error message when LTS binaries are missing (#639).
• Fixed a performance regression caused by too many unnecessary HTTP requests, which was introduced in v1.24.0 (#641).

We’d like to thank our amazing users & contributors!

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Bazelisk v1.24.0 comes with a new feature:

New Features (Go)

• Implemented support for a new wildcard version identifier: Users may now specify a version like 7.* that refers to the latest release or candidate from the given LTS track. Please note that this is different from the existing 7.x identifier which only matches releases, but not candidates (#636).

We’d like to thank our amazing users & contributors!

Known issue: #640

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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!

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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!

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