Bazelisk v1.20.0 comes with several significant changes:

New Features

• The Go version now supports BAZELISK_NOJDK (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/531)

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• It's now easier to use Bazelisk programmatically (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/500, https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/526)
• Bazelisk will retry more connection errors (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/529, https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/530)
• A display bug in the download progress bar has been fixed (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/539)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @afq984, @comius, @francine-blanc, @illicitonion, @jwnimmer-tri, @LINKIWI, @mmorel-35 and @sf-jbazuzi!

Bazelisk v1.19.0 comes with two significant changes:

• MODULE.bazel and REPO.bazel files are now obeyed (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/503)
• Users will see a progress bar during binary downloads (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/511)

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @crncnnr and @katre!

Bazelisk v1.18.0 contains some bug fixes and internal cleanups. Most notably, it uses consistent Bazel paths to avoid spurious rebuilds when downloading the same Bazel binary from a different mirror (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/465).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @alexeagle, @fmeum, @illicitonion, @sluongng and @wisechengyi!

Bazelisk v1.17.0 comes with updated dependencies, minor bug fixes and new features:

The Go version...

• ... supports custom download URLs via the BAZELISK_FORMAT_URL env variable (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/427)
• ... now only downloads Bazel when necessary (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/438)
• ... can check the hash of downloaded binaries via the BAZELISK_VERIFY_SHA256 env variable (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/441)
• ... makes it easier to find out which Bazel change broke your build with the --bisect option (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/451)
• ... is more robust in the face of transient GCS download issues (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/459)

The Python version now properly recognises WORKSPACE.bazel files (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/443).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @jmmv and @jwnimmer-tri!

Bazelisk v1.16.0 comes with updated dependencies, minor bug fixes and some improvements:

The Go version...

• ... no longer causes 'file name too long' errors on MacOS (#396),
• ... works correctly when no GitHub token is specified (#412),
• ... now supports tools/bazel.ps1 and tools/bazel.bat on Windows (#417).

The Python version now works on Linux arm64 machines (#397).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @bduffany, @chenrui333, @gregmagolan, @rpwoodbu, @sudowork and @UebelAndre !

v1.15.0 comes with several notable changes to the Go version of Bazelisk:

• Features:
  • Added support for users-specific .bazeliskrc files, in addition to .bazeliskrc files in the workspace root (#390).
• Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where Bazelisk ignored the tools/bazel wrapper (#345).
  • Startup options are now correctly passed to bazel clean and bazel shutdown, thus ensuring that the commands affect the correct Bazel server (#362).
  • Suppressed incorrect fallback warnings on Apple Silicon when fetching Bazel binaries built at specific commits (#392).

We’d like to thank our amazing contributors @JaredNeil, @jbms, @LINKIWI, @meteorcloudy and @Vertexwahn!

This release brings two small improvements:

• On Linux, Bazelisk now downloads Bazel binaries built on CentOS 7, thus ensuring compatibility with older Ubuntu versions such as 14.04 and 16.04.
• Everyone who uses Bazelisk as a library can now dynamically compute Bazel flags based on the resolved Bazel version. (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/358). Thank you @tjgq!

This release fixes performance issues when using floating version identifiers (e.g. "5.x").

We'd like to thank @chenrui333 for their contributions to this release.

This patch release fixes "go build" / "go get" of Bazelisk. Unfortunately v1.13.0 could only be built with Bazel.

This release makes it easier to run Bazel with incompatible flags by introducing the BAZELISK_INCOMPATIBLE_FLAGS environment variable (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/349).

It also contains some minor maintenance / cleanup changes.

This is a patch release that improves error messages wrt unsupported arm64 platforms.

This is a patch release for v1.12.0 which fixes the 404 download errors on Linux (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/346).

It also introduces custom fallback behavior (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/289) and fixes the handling of SIGINT (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/322).

We'd like to thank our contributors @bb010g and @gibfahn.

This release brings new features and fixes to both versions of Bazelisk:

Go:

• Added support for basic HTTP authentication via a .netrc file (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/292)
• Improved and fixed Apple Silicon support (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/299, https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/303)
• Rolling releases are now fetched from GCS instead of GitHub (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/319)

Python:

• Added support for Apple Silicon (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/272)
• Implemented verification of downloaded Bazel binaries (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/295)

We'd like to thank our contributors @chenrui333, @codeman9, @cpsauer, @keith, @linzhp, @Warchant and @xinnjie!

This release of Bazelisk contains some smaller fixes and improvements, as well as two new features in the Go version:

• #278: Support floating release identifiers (e.g. 5.x)
• #280: Add support for patch versions of Bazel (e.g. 1.2.3-patch4)

We'd like to thank our contributors @alexeagle, @changlan, @dmitris, @josephperrott, @linzhp and @UebelAndre.

This is a minor release of Bazelisk. The only difference to v1.10.0 is that we finally implemented a proper HTTP request retry mechanism (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/256 and https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/pull/257).

This release contains the following major changes:

• #248: No longer get incompatible flags from GitHub
• #252: Make the HTTP user agent configurable
• #253: Bump github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go from 0.27.0 to 0.28.0

This Bazelisk release contains the following changes:

• #238: Properly handle pagination when GCS doesn't give us full results.
• #241: Implement pagination support for GitHub repos.
• #242: Provide ARM releases (for Mac M1).

I also bumped the tools used to build this release to Bazel 4.1.0, Go 1.16.4, rules_go 0.27.0.

This Bazelisk release contains the following changes:

• #237: Fixes a bug where last_rc would pick the wrong release when rolling releases were available on GCS.

This Bazelisk release contains the following changes:

• #224: Add support for Bazel rolling releases.
• #218: Fixed workspace root detection by ignoring directories. (thanks @avidal!)

v1.7.5 is a minor patch release that restores Go 1.11 compatibility.