Bazel is a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system.

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Release Released Active Support Security Support Latest
8 (LTS) yesterday
(09 Dec 2024)
Yes Yes 8.0.0
(09 Dec 2024)
7 (LTS) 12 months ago
(11 Dec 2023)
Ended yesterday
(09 Dec 2024)
Ends in 2 years
(31 Dec 2026)
7.4.1
(11 Nov 2024)
6 (LTS) 1 year and 11 months ago
(19 Dec 2022)
Ended 12 months ago
(11 Dec 2023)
Ends in 1 year
(31 Dec 2025)
6.5.0
(23 Jan 2024)
5 (LTS) 2 years and 10 months ago
(19 Jan 2022)
Ended 1 year and 11 months ago
(19 Dec 2022)
Ends in 1 month and 3 weeks
(31 Jan 2025)
5.4.1
(19 Apr 2023)
4 (LTS) 3 years and 10 months ago
(21 Jan 2021)
Ended 2 years and 10 months ago
(19 Jan 2022)
Ended 10 months ago
(31 Jan 2024)
4.2.4
(20 Apr 2023)

Bazel follows Semantic Versioning.

  • A major release contains features that are not backward compatible with the previous release. Each major Bazel version is an LTS release.
  • A minor release contains backward-compatible bug fixes and features back-ported from the main branch.
  • A patch release contains critical bug fixes.

More information is available on the Bazel website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
bazel --version
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