Status of Bazel 5.1

• Expected release date: 2022-03-24
• Release blockers milestone

To report a release-blocking bug, please add a comment with the text @bazel-io flag to the issue. A release manager will triage it and add it to the milestone.

To cherry-pick a mainline commit into 5.1, simply send a PR against the release-5.1.0 branch.

Task list:

• Create draft release announcement
• Send for review the release announcement PR: add blog post for 5.1 bazel-blog#271
• Push the release, notify package maintainers:
• Update the documentation
• Push the blog post
• Update the release page