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Release 8.8.2 (2026-10-20)

Bazel 8.8.2 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 8.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

• Removed distrusted eMudhra and Sectigo AAA root CA certificates from the bundled JDK, to address the private key leakage (see https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/; #31921)

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