latest bazel does not work

[ollimeier]

I just installed bazel and wanted to install ift-encoder, but I got this error:

ollimeier@9165ebd3-202f-46ce-b652-32d85ac2bfd9 ift-encoder % bazel build ...   
ERROR: The project you're trying to build requires Bazel 8.5.1 (specified in /Users/ollimeier/Documents/hithub_data/ollimeier/ift-encoder/.bazelversion), but it wasn't found in /opt/homebrew/Cellar/bazel/9.0.1/libexec/bin.

Bazel binaries for all official releases can be downloaded from here:
  https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases

You can download the required version directly using this command:
  (cd "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/bazel/9.0.1/libexec/bin" && curl -fLO https://releases.bazel.build/8.5.1/release/bazel-8.5.1-darwin-arm64 && chmod +x bazel-8.5.1-darwin-arm64 && cd - )

I was able to install ift-encoder with the downgraded version of bazel, but I thought you might be interested into the information anyway.

[garretrieger]

I added the .bazelversion set to 8.5.1 because a couple of our dependencies (Brotli and Riegeli) did not work with bazel 9. I checked in on both repos and it looks like Brotli just recently got support for 9, but Riegeli is still requiring 8.5.1. So unfortunately for the time being we'll have to stick with 8.5.1.