Status of Bazel 9.0.2

• Expected first release candidate date: 2026-04-02
• Expected release date: 2026-04-09
• List of release blockers

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 9.0.2, simply send a PR against the release-9.0.2 branch.

Task list:

• Create release candidate
• Check downstream projects
• Create draft release announcement
• Push the release and notify package maintainers
• Update the release page