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Aspect's rules_lint reaches 2.0. We are excited to announce the second major release of our formatting and linting support for Bazel. We’ve been incredibly gratified by the more than 60 open-source contributors who have improved the ruleset, and everyone who has filed or answered issues. Thank you! blog.aspect.build/rules-lint-2

Bazel 9.0 is Here! Live webinar Jan 26th by Alex Eagle at Aspect Build. We'll look through the Bazel 9 changelog, highlighting the most interesting features and fixes. We'll show how Aspect's Bazel 100-series training courses are already updated for Bazel 9, including all of the codelab repos under Bazel starters. youtube.com/live/QJUTeD43Q…

Bazel 9.0 LTS is released! blog.bazel.build/2026/01/20/baz… A big thank-you to the community for making it possible!

Aspect Build contributions to the new #Bazel 9 release include prebuilt upstream Protobuf. blog.aspect.build/bazel-9-protob… Protobuf is @Google 's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data, making it helpful for high-performance data exchange in systems like microservices and gRPC.

Aspect Build Senior Software Engineer Şahin Yort explores the case for adopting Bazel across SONiC Foundation projects in this technical blog. blog.aspect.build/bazel-for-sonic

FirstMark Principal David Waltcher interviews Aspect Build co-founder Alex Eagle @Jakeherringbone on the latest Bazel trends in this informative discussion from BazelCon 2025. youtu.be/V-6YtseNPHE?si…

Interested in Bazel + Python? Watch the training by Alex Eagle and Reid McKenzie from Aspect Build. youtube.com/watch?v=MB6Txe…

Juan Enrique Muñoz Zolotoochin shows his Aspect CLI AXL task manager for bazel query. He built it at the BazelCon 2025 Hackathon in Atlanta. Check out Juan's two minute demo video. youtu.be/ndPOsWjv4jc Awesome work Juan!

We are excited to welcome Dinah McNutt to the Aspect Build team as Senior Technical Program Manager, based in Dublin, Ireland. She has devoted her career to technical program management including a 13-year tenure at Google. Dinah's MIT Master's thesis "A Study of Turbulent Flame Propagation" is perfect education for managing developers to put out software fires. We are glad to have her on board!

Don't miss the newest episode of the @aspect_build Insights! Sit down with Alex Eagle and the Google leads for Bazel to get the latest updates on Google's Bazel Open Source Contributions.🌱 youtube.com/live/2kRPbD8ns…

Aspect Extension Language (AXL) is a dialect of Starlark — the same language Bazel uses. AXL tasks interact with Bazel’s query and build APIs while staying lightweight and easy to share. Give the AXL run extension a try at github.com/aspect-extensi… Thanks to great work by Alex Eagle @Jakeherringbone Eagle and Şahin Yort, AXL run includes a Runfiles-aware spawn utility, making it much easier to execute binaries built by Bazel with correct runfiles resolution across platforms. No more brittle shell scripts or manual path manipulation — just clean, reliable execution semantics. Give it a try at github.com/aspect-extensi… To learn more about Aspect Build's Bazel support and developer productivity platform, visit aspect.build.

In the SF Bay Area? Join the Thursday Dec 4th BUILD meetup at the Figma SF HQ. luma.com/j9fzeb0q We'll have a Bazel hackathon and time to demo what you hacked. Aspect Build co-founder Alex Eagle aka @Jakeherringbone, Mintlify co-founder Han Wang, and Bazel docs lead Alan Mond will show the new Bazel documentation doc site.

Check out Daniel's recap of #BazelCon 2025! 💚

Happy Thanksgiving for those in the United States.

Better Bazel by Aspect Build: Packages, Rules, Targets, and Labels youtube.com/watch?v=hUAzAV… Learn the core concepts of packages, rules, targets, and labels in Bazel. Understand how packages group source and output files, how rules define how to build artifacts, the different types of targets, and how labels are used to reference them in commands or BUILD files. Bazel support and platform. Build confidently with Aspect.

Bazel Buildifier Recommendations and Resources. blog.aspect.build/buildifier It was originally created because the Go team at Google wanted to machine-edit BUILD files, but didn’t want to get into code reviews with teams who liked their hand-formatting of files.

The best tool for the Bazel job might be older than you Mature tooling on top of the mtree specification blog.aspect.build/mtree Learn from Alex Eagle at Aspect Build how to reuse older code with the mtree specification.

Aspect Workflows Free for Open Source Projects. Announcing Aspect Build's cloud-hosted free open source tier. blog.aspect.build/free-tier-oss