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Stories

• What's New in Bazel 6.0 by Brentley Jones gives a detailed list of changes in the latest Bazel version 6.

• Bazel and Nix: A Migration Experience by Ben Radford describes how to port a C++ project to Nix + Bazel.

• Hermit: Deterministic Linux by Ryan Rhodes Newton shows how to create a deterministic runtime for the software testing use case.

• How We Use ClickHouse to Analyze Trends Across Millions of Builds by Lulu Zhang shares insights on Bazel build metric visualization.

• Versioning releases from a monorepo by Alex Eagle describes trunk-based development and versioning strategies.

• How we get quick feedback on new features via "experimental" backends by Benjy Weinberger introduces experimental backends in the Pants build system.

• Recompilation avoidance in rules_haskell by Guillaume Genestier describes how to avoid unnecessary recompilation in Haskell using Bazel’s unused_inputs_list.

• Converting a polyglot project build to Bazel: part 1 by Karol Czułkowski explains how to convert a polyglot Haskell and Elm project to Bazel.

• Rewriting the Modern Web in Rust by Kevin King describes how to build a full-stack Rust web application with Bazel.

• .bazelrc flags you should enable by Alex Eagle shares best practices for Bazel configuration.

Projects

• Nickel 0.3.1 released - Nickel is a generic configuration language

• Bazel 6.0 released - Bzlmod becomes Generally available.

• Bazel Invocation Analyzer - Analyses Bazel build profiles and suggests improvements.

• Bazel Mystery - A Bazel tutorial told as a mystery.

• Envfs - A FUSE file system that turns PATH into symlinks.

• ko - Generate container images to deploy Go applications.

Events

• The Bazel Community Update - The Ghosts of Bazel Past, Present, and Future with Sven Tiffe, and Radhika Advani, hosted by Jason Dobies.

• The Bazel Community Update - Bazel at scale for surgical robots with Guillaume Maudoux, and Nikhil Kalige, hosted by Jason Dobies.

• BazelCon - recordings of the talks are now available.

• BazelCon Community Day - slides and recordings of the talks are now available on the website.

• NixCon - recordings are now available.