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Release 8.4.1 (2025-09-11)

Bazel 8.4.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 8.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

General

• Rollback of "Use the system trust store by default with the embedded JDK #26881" (#26935).

External Dependencies

• Speculative fix for repo contents cache race. (#26950)

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