#22534 Update default pytest subsystem version to 8.x Issue created by zach-overflow ## Motivation • At the time of writing this, pytest's current stable release is at `8.4.1`, but Pants still defaults to

7.0.1

. • There are lots of feature additions and bug improvements between pytest

7.0.1

and

8.4.1

. At least in my case, many of the desired features translate to much broader pytest configuration control centralized in my codebase's

pyproject.toml

. • Moving to pytest 8.x would also mitigate a number of deprecation warnings that stem from older versions of pytest (see related issue thread here for one such example impacting us at the moment). ## Solution Description • Bump the default version of pytest to

8.x

. ## Alternatives Considered • Modify the pytest version in our project. Not totally opposed to this, but I wanted to see if there's any reason not to bump the version at the source. pantsbuild/pants