I've rolled the stable version back to 10.3.1, please test.

thanks, that means the 10.3.1 is still build with ubuntu and 10.3.2 is debian based?

The binary for version 10.3.1 was built on ubuntu 16 or 18 I think, maybe Christophe or Pablo can give more details, I don��t recall it right now.

10.3.2 was built on the new linux server infrastructure.

$ uname -a

Debian 6.1.99-1 (2024-07-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux

We are evaluating different alternatives (e.g., downgrading the build server for a while).

Just to be sure. In that case it would be nice to have a way to download precisely 10.3.1 in order to stay safe and we have time to plan countermeasure.

If you want to control what you download, right now the safest way is to go to files.pharo.org, more precisely to https://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur64/, and look for your architecture.

There you will find the archives with the binaries we built.

Details about naming conventions are found here: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/wiki/About-Build-and-Artifacts

That file server stores both released artifacts and intermediate build results.

The released artifact is the first artifact with the corresponding version tag (e.g., 10.3.1, 10.2.0).

This is generally the oldest in timestime, but you can confirm with the tags on github.

Moreover, the general advice is to avoid zeroconf as much as possible.

We don��t have the manpower to maintain build farms for each possible linux flavor.

Internally, we recently started discussing the deprecation of zeroconf and the migration path to OBS for *nixes.

The early sketch is that each released version will have its own package in OBS.

Then a virtual package will gather them all together (and help people update or downgrade on need)

More of this will come soon.

I think on one of the issues there was a mentioning that Kris add some patch for their CI.

I��m not aware of this, can you post a link here?

Maybe this is a good addition to zeroconf? Or can this be achieved differently

Zeroconf worked very well until now, and we have put lot of effort in its modernization lately.

However, as it is it has problems to scale:

- executing an untrusted script that downloads unverified binaries

- we manage only one nix build, which works only as soon as all nixes keep compatibility with the version we built on

- it is designed to expose two versions: latest and stable.

Much of this is solved by OBS, and we hope this improves our stability and visibility.

Overall this is quite unfortunate. I hope there will be a better solution then everyone has to build their own vms. I think I need to plan some time to do it.

We understand, and believe me, it��s unfortunate for us too.

We are working on it and hope to have some news in the following weeks.

@Norbert et al, we identified at least two issues:
- a glibC incompatibility with Ubuntu 20.04 that arises because recently the build servers changed to a Debian, so all zeroconf users are impacted (except those using stable debian).

I can confirm that. The segfault was always in ZdcSocketStream when accessing a native glibc function. Sadly the console I cannot see anymore because too many builds in between.