Status of Bazel 7.7.1

• Expected first release candidate date: 2025-11-04
• Expected release date: 2025-11-06
• 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 7.7.1, simply send a PR against therelease-7.7.1 branch.

Task list:

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