Thank you for the update. Once the new VM and image versions are built by
the CI I will update also the ba-st docker Pharo images, so they start
working flawlessly again.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:45 AM Guillermo Polito <[email protected]>
wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago we got reported a big recurrent failure on CI jobs
> while cloning using iceberg/libgit
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/11481.
>
> TL;DR; So far (Friday ~17h Paris time) we managed to get everything up and
> running. A new VM is being released by our CI, all pull requests are issued
> and we should have everything integrated by tonight.
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> More on the situation: Errors happened randomly  with
>
> ```
> error reading from the zlib stream
> ```
>
> or
> ```
> bad packet length
> ```
>
> Several people helped in getting a reliable script to reproduce the issue,
> plus some instructions to produce a reproduction environment using a docker
> container. With that in our hands, we managed to corner the issue to a new
> incompatibility between old libgit2 versions, ssh2, OpenSSL, and (at least)
> Github.
>
> After testing some configurations, we decided to upgrade the libgit and
> related binaries to newer versions:
>  - libgit 1.4.4
>  - libssh 1.9.0
>  - OpenSSL 1.1.1k
>
> This was of course not as straightforward as we would have liked.
> Libgit2 1.4.4 was not compatible with its older versions and broke our ffi
> bindings.
> We needed to provide new VM binaries for all our major platforms, make a
> new VM release, upgrade the libgit2 bindings, and make releases of the
> libgit2 bindings, iceberg, and backport to Pharo 10 and Pharo 9.
>
> TL;DR; So far (Friday ~17h Paris time) we managed to get everything up and
> running. A new VM is being released by our CI, all pull requests are issued
> and we should have everything integrated by tonight.
>
> Libgit+related compilation instructions are updated in the VM wiki
>
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/wiki/Building-OSX-ARM64-Third-Party-Dependencies
>
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/wiki/Building-OSX-X86_64-Third-Party-Dependencies
>
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/wiki/Building-Linux-ARM64-Third-Party-Dependencies
>
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/wiki/Building-Linux-ARM32-Third-Party-Dependencies
>
> Libgit bindings Upgrade
>     changes:
> https://github.com/pharo-vcs/libgit2-pharo-bindings/commit/0e0100f7d0f3a11c3170d2f19a984a54c01a294b
>     release:
> https://github.com/pharo-vcs/libgit2-pharo-bindings/releases/tag/v2.2.6
>
> Iceberg Upgrade
>     pr: https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1605
>     release: https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/releases/tag/v2.0.7
>
> Upgrading library dependencies in the VM
>   https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/447
>   Release VM 9.0.16
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/releases/tag/v9.0.16
>
> Backports to Pharo
>   Pharo10 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/11545
>   Pharo9  https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/11546
>
> We have left for later to upgrade library dependencies for the Windows VM
> (x86-64, ARM64).
> Of course, any help in this direction is welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> G in behalf of the team

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