Upgrade external tools

[grihabor]

The pr was generated with this command:

pants run build-support/bin:external-tool-upgrade -- -v src/python/pants/backend/

(Notes are not generated yet)

The tool code is here #22064

[huonw]

Thank you!

[grihabor]

@huonw Thank you for review! Ready for merge

• fixed merge conflict in pex-cli
• upgraded pex-cli to 2.33.4
• formatted the table in notes
• added a note about version format breaking change

[grihabor]

native_engine.IntrinsicError: Could not identify a process to backtrack to for: Missing digest: Was not present in the local store: Digest { hash: Fingerprint, size_bytes: 1294 }, with workunit: Workunit { name: "process", level: Debug, span_id: SpanId(3050899624272423132), parent_ids: [SpanId(10285682066423053561)], state: Started { start_time: SystemTime { tv_sec: 1741864346, tv_nsec: 218582000 }, blocked: false }, metadata: Some(WorkunitMetadata { desc: Some("Scheduling: Resolving plugins: hdrhistogram"), message: None, stdout: None, stderr: None, artifacts: [], user_metadata: [] }) }

I believe it's the flaky test again

[huonw]

Thanks for thinking about aligning this to other tools... but I think this breaking change isn't appropriate in this form.

Can we (manually) switch back to the old style for this PR?

We can potentially make the breaking change as a separate piece of work, but we should do a deprecation for a while (i.e. support both old and new). In particular, I think it's relatively common for people to pin to a PEX version (particularly a newer one than the one in their current version of Pants) to pick up new features/bugfixes.

This change is instantly breaking anyone who does that, without any "live" explanation (i.e. when they try the upgrade, they'll just get download error explosions, rather than useful guidance about how to fix) and thus making their upgrade cycle harder.

[grihabor]

Sure 28dd523

Moved it to a separate pr #22090

[huonw]

Looks great now, except for some extra release notes. Thanks!

[grihabor]

@huonw Done

[huonw]

Thank you!