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Please produce binaries for the latest versions
Hello!
I am a member of the team responsible for GitHub Actions hosted runners and Microsoft-provided agents in Azure DevOps. zstd is a highly-demanded package amongst GitHub customers, apart from that, the actions/cache action hardly relies on the zstd installed in the images we provide.
As we only provide the LTS versions of ubuntu zstd is surely quite obsolete there, and as a result we have to install zstd using the linuxbrew package manager.
Due to recent changes in brew we had to remove it from our $PATH. Apart from that, we are considering mere reliable ways of shipping zstd to our customers (including possibility of providing a self-built binary), but before building it oursalves, we wanted to reach you and ask if it is possible to produce binaries for the latest versions, it might be probably a benefit for lots of people, not only GitHub.
Thanks!
In general we rely on distros to produce the binaries for their OSes. But yes it's disappointing that the LTS releases don't update the zstd package. Technically, versions before 1.4.9 are affected by a CVE.
Have you considered grabbing the .deb from a newer Ubuntu release and installing it manually? I see that 22.10 packages the current version. Given that zstd (1) is nearly dependency-free and (2) has a stable API/ABI, I believe that should work.
Hmm, we have not considered using deb from the newer ubuntu version, will check it out and let you know how it goes.
@felixhandte 1.5.2 from 22.10 works on 22.04, but on 18 & 20 / 04 it depends on the toolchain libs still :(
Sorry for the radio silence.
Is there a reason you need us to build these binaries? Ultimately, what we would build would just be the result of git clone https://github.com/facebook/zstd && git checkout v1.5.2 && make zstd-release on that platform.
Edit: I see you call that out as an option in your original comment. Yeah, I think that's probably the easiest way forward here.
In the absence of a reply, I'm going to close the issue. If you want to discuss further, please feel free to re-open.
@felixhandte I ran into the same issue, hundreds of devices using zstd but they are stuck with an older version because of Ubuntu LTS.
This a valid issue, fixable via github actions.
