pantsbuild/pants release_2.16.0a0

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New Features

• Allow python tools to be installed from a user resolve. (#18418)

• golang: add support for passthrough args for gofmt (#18409)

• Add the ability for Pants to provide Python via a union (with a pyenv impl) (#18352)

• Add sources_fingerprint to peek on source-creating targets (#18383)

• New BUILD file symbols help info (#18378)

• Visibility: support matching on target names. (#18369)

• Support for peeking at dependency/dependents rules (#18112)

• Adds support for supplying "runnable" dependencies to the execution_dependencies field (#18347)

• javascript: Support esm modules and commonjs specific javascript file extensions (#18208)

• Adds system_binary target, which can be used to reproducibly find a pre-installed binary for use with adhoc_tool (#18332)

• Enable running third-party Go main packages (#17449)

User API Changes

• Add python311 runtime to python_google_cloud_function target (#18405)

• Delegate lockfile requirement validation to Pex when possible. (#18415)

• Upgrade Pex to 2.1.126. (#18408)

• Deprecate the default interpreter constraints. (#18390)

• Give pantsd more RAM by default. (#18389)

Plugin API Changes

• Support specifying a named resolve as the superset in a PexRequirements. (#18397)

• Deprecate the @rule_helper decorator. (#18330)

• Get rid of the LockfileContent class (#18305)

Bug fixes

• python: collect files with '[tool.ruff' sections as candidates for Ruff config files (#18413)

• Fix OSError when running pants in systemd-nspawn container (#18398)

• Fix paths issue with transitive excludes. (#18396)

• Fix export-codgen with multiple output types from same input type (#18373)

• Errors in --loop wait for changes rather than re-running immediately (#18367)

• Support using env() in prelude macro files (#18273)

• Docker environment uses a volume for named caches (#18327)

• Load fromfile files relative to build root (#18311)

• Ensure that the pep-517 backend shim works on Python 2.7. (#18295)

Documentation

• Update documentation on how to install the pants binary (#18372)

• Some doc fixes suggested by users. (#18393)

• docs: tidy up writing plugins tutorial (#18380)

• docs: upgrade plugin writing tutorial to 2.15.0 (#18371)

• Use valid container/app names in helm examples (#18358)

• Remove defunct newsletter (#18355)

• docs: mention code generation when troubleshooting missing imports from first-party code (#18073)

• Fix documentation example for python_awslambda targets (#18302)

• Change bool values to lowercase in TOML snippets (#18299)