Status of Bazel 6.1.0

• Expected release date: 2023-03-06
• 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 6.1, simply send a PR against the release-6.1.0 branch.

Task list:

• Create draft release announcement
• Send the release announcement for review
• Push the release and notify package maintainers
• Update the documentation
• Update the release page