8.1.0

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New Features

Incompatible Changes

Change Log
TBD

WORKSPACE setup

load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
http_archive(
    name = "rules_java",
    urls = [
        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_java/releases/download/8.1.0/rules_java-8.1.0.tar.gz",
    ],
    sha256 = "a4151b0b482020f90b81e82f6e75be0e9ba180af1e5addf2fd4ec1b064246119",
)
load("@rules_java//java:repositories.bzl", "rules_java_dependencies", "rules_java_toolchains")
rules_java_dependencies()
rules_java_toolchains()

Using the rules

See the source.
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