Bazel 8.0.1 compiled from dist zip file reports version 8.0.0

[lamielle]

Description of the bug:

When I build the latest bazel 8.0.1 release using the -dist zip file, I noticed that bazel --version reports 8.0.0 rather than 8.0.1. I manually tweaked the module version in MODULE.bazel to be 8.0.1 instead of 8.0.0 and rebuilt and confirmed that the expected version was reported. Is bumping this version a step that was missed for this latest release? I see 8.0.0 in MODULE.bazel for both git tags 8.0.0 and 8.0.1.

Which category does this issue belong to?

CLI

What's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

Download the bazel 8.0.1 dist zip file: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/8.0.1/bazel-8.0.1-dist.zip

Follow the "Build bazel from scratch (bootstrapping)" steps noted in the documentation: https://bazel.build/install/compile-source#bootstrap-bazel

After the build completes, run output/bazel --versionand note that the reported version is8.0.0`.

Which operating system are you running Bazel on?

Linux, Ubuntu 24.04

What is the output of bazel info release?

Extracting Bazel installation... Starting local Bazel server (8.0.0- (@non-git)) and connecting to it... release 8.0.0- (@non-git)

If bazel info release returns development version or (@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.

See above, where I describe reproduction steps.

What's the output of git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD ?

This is via the -dist zip file so this is not a git repository.

If this is a regression, please try to identify the Bazel commit where the bug was introduced with bazelisk --bisect.

No response

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

No response

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

No response

[lamielle]

FWIW, I first noticed this on FreeBSD (and I do have 7.4.1 and 8.0.0/8.0.1 building on FreeBSD 13). However, since that's not an officially supported platform I made sure to reproduce this on Linux as well.

The FreeBSD build takes a number of patches to the sources to get a successful build so I didn't want to use that as the base for this report.

[meteorcloudy]

Thanks for reporting. Unfortunately, there is no way to fix this retrospectively.

@iancha1992 I guess we should add a step to update the version number in MODULE.bazel file for minor/patch releases

[meteorcloudy]

Let's start with 8.1.0