Release 5.4.1 (2023-04-19)

Baseline: 8d66a41

Bazel 5.4.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 5.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.

• Bump minimum supported macOS versions to 10.13 (#17977)
• Patch zlib to fix compatibility with Xcode 14.3 (#17996)
• Use ctime in file digest cache key (#18115)

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as Daniel Wagner-Hall and Fabian Meumertzheim.

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