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Windows binaries no longer stripped since 8.2.0

Open meck-gd opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

Ever since 8.2.0, Windows binaries have grown by 20-30 MB in size (both, xpack and oss variants - I checked winlogbeat and filebeat).

I've determined the cause to be a bunch of discardable PE sections with names like /4, /19, etc. These don't only take up unnecessary space, they are also not compressible because they contain deflated data.

  • Was there a reason for this change, or did it happen accidentally while refactoring CI?
  • Can stripping be enabled once again so we can save disk space and bandwidth?

meck-gd avatar Aug 09 '22 12:08 meck-gd