Now that #2941 is done, we should start planning on migrating to Bazel 9, the active LTS version at the time of this writing. Bazel 8 has entered maintenance mode.
Major differences are documented here: https://blog.bazel.build/2026/01/20/bazel-9.html
Since we are fully on bzmod, probably the main blocker is the Starlarkification of language rules.
Now that #2941 is done, we should start planning on migrating to Bazel 9, the active LTS version at the time of this writing. Bazel 8 has entered maintenance mode.
Major differences are documented here: https://blog.bazel.build/2026/01/20/bazel-9.html
Since we are fully on bzmod, probably the main blocker is the Starlarkification of language rules.