Status of Bazel 4.1

This release will use Bazel 4.0.0 as its baseline and we will apply selected cherry-picks and backports on top of it. Please request cherry-picks that you'd like to get into Bazel 4.1.0 here via a comment.

• Expected release date: March 2021
• List of release blockers

To report a release-blocking bug, please file a bug using the Release blocker label, and cc me.

Task list:

• Pick release baseline: 6b33bdb
• Create release candidate: https://releases.bazel.build/4.1.0/rc1/
• Check downstream projects: https://buildkite.com/bazel/bazel-at-head-plus-downstream/builds/2040
• Create draft release announcement
• Send for review the release announcement PR: Add blog post for Bazel 4.1.0 bazel-blog#256
• Push the release, notify package maintainers: @vbatts @petemounce @excitoon
• Update the documentation
• Push the blog post
• Update the release page