Release 9.0.0-pre.20250115.2 (2025-01-23)

Baseline: 67c89b3

Cherry picks:

   + cf701eb:
     Fix performance regression on builds that change a test
     configuration flag.

Important changes:

  - On Linux, the default limit on the number of `--watchfs` file
    events per directory has been raised to 10,000 (from 500). If
    needed, it can be increased further via
    `--host_jvm_args=-Djdk.nio.file.WatchService.maxEventsPerPoll=<lim
    it>`.

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,57 @@
+## Release 9.0.0-pre.20250115.2 (2025-01-23)
+
+```
+Baseline: 67c89b31f1d40635ad122639c3099ac3d882935d
+
+Cherry picks:
+
+   + cf701ebeab2565e910453cad8b1b950553596d83:
+     Fix performance regression on builds that change a test
+     configuration flag.
+```
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - On Linux, the default limit on the number of `--watchfs` file
+    events per directory has been raised to 10,000 (from 500). If
+    needed, it can be increased further via
+    `--host_jvm_args=-Djdk.nio.file.WatchService.maxEventsPerPoll=<lim
+    it>`.
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Fabian Meumertzheim.
+
+## Release 8.0.1 (2025-01-17)
+
+```
+
+Release Notes:
+
+```
+
+## Release 9.0.0-pre.20250109.2 (2025-01-17)
+
+```
+Baseline: 457d248218540b0ae93d6454fa8a95ccad877063
+```
+
+New features:
+
+  - Materializer functions now have access to the label of the rule
+    they are running on as ctx.label .
+
+Important changes:
+
+  - Extra targets provided to `ctx.expand_location` now expand to
+    their executable (if any) instead of resulting in an error if
+    they provide a number of files different from one.
+    RELNOTES[INC]: The `--incompatible_locations_prefers_executable`
+    flag has been added and enabled, which makes it so that
+    `ctx.expand_location` expands `$(locations :x)` to the executable
+    of an extra target `:x` if it provides one and the number of
+    files provided by it is not one.
+
+This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Benjamin Peterson, Fabian Meumertzheim.
+
 ## Release 9.0.0-pre.20250106.2 (2025-01-13)
 
 ```