Bazel 8.5.0 release candidate 1 is available for testing

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Hee Cha (xWF)

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Nov 13, 2025, 7:20:27 PM (5 hours ago) Nov 13

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Hi Everyone,

Bazel 8.5.0rc1 is now available for those that want to try it out.

You can download it from here: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/tag/8.5.0rc1
If you're using Bazelisk, you can point to this RC by setting USE_BAZEL_VERSION=8.5.0rc1.

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