Upgrade Externals March 2025

[nicolecheetham]

Follow Semi-automated monthly upgrades documentation.

Prior Issue (February): #22536

• March external upgrades #22670
• [workspace] Upgrade curl_internal to latest release 8.12.1 #22677
• [workspace] Upgrade nlopt_internal to latest release v2.10.0 #22678
• [workspace] Upgrade sdformat to latest #22680
• [setup] Upgrade Bazel to latest release 8.1.1 #22690
• [setup] Upgrade Python venv (mac) to latest #22692
• [workspace] Upgrade spral_internal to latest release v2025.03.03 #22693
• [workspace] Upgrade gz_math_internal,gz_utils_internal to latest #22701
• [workspace] Upgrade clarabel_cpp_internal to latests release v0.10.0 #22730
• [workspace] Upgrade crate_universe, clarabel_cpp_internal to latest #22732

[jwnimmer-tri]

BTW Please also upgrade us to use the just-released https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/tag/8.1.1. Probably as a separate PR just to be safe.

[nicolecheetham]

@jwnimmer-tri The semi-automatic script no longer works when upgrading rust_toolchain. It specifically outputs an error message stating WORKSPACE has to be enabled for sync command to work, run with --enable_workspace.

In the rust_toolchain upgrade.py file I proceeded to add the flag to the sync command on line 34. However, it then warns workspace support will be removed in the near future, mentions switching to MODULE style externals like bzlmod, and then errors out as the subprocess returned a non-zero exit status.

[jwnimmer-tri]

Okay, please file a new issue and assign to me. Thanks for catching it!

Edit: => #22684