Bazel 7.1.0 release candidate 1 is available for testing

[Keerthana Kumar]

Hi all,

Bazel 7.1.0rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from here: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/tag/7.1.0rc1.
If you're using Bazelisk, you can point to this RC by setting USE_BAZEL_VERSION=7.1.0rc1.

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

Thanks!