Software download Item? Nightly 2.x builds?

KurtE · March 31, 2025, 1:53pm

Probably already known, but for the last couple days I noticed that the
software item at top of website pages appears to be missing:

I also try to keep up on the nightly builds of IDE 2.x, but so far since 2.3.4
there was not anything that looked interesting, until this last week.
On Github I see:

But when I go to the main website the Changelist is still back at:

Changes since version [2.3.4](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/releases/tag/2.3.4):
 - fix(plugin): decouple state update from the LS (#2643) [5ec19150]
 - Bump built-in example sketches version to 1.10.2 [6d96e227]
 - fix: install missing linux dependencies [1712f9ea]
 - chore: switch to version `2.3.5` after the release (#2587) [6eef09ef]

Thought it would be nice to checkout to see if anything in the CLI 1.2.0 update
fixed things...

Just thought I would mention this in case ...

Kurt

ptillisch · March 31, 2025, 10:03pm

Hi @KurtE.

This is due to an intentional change to the website design. The new path to the "Software" page is:

Click "Products" on the website header.
A menu will open.
Select SOFTWARE > CLOUD AND TOOLS > ARDUINO IDE from the menu.

I investigated and found that the nightly build publishing was broken by some recent changes to the build workflow. So the nightly build you would download from the "Software" page of arduino.cc is outdated and indeed only contains the changes that are listed in that changelog.

I submitted a fix for the regression:

github.com/arduino/arduino-ide

Give build workflow step access to required deployment environment

main ← per1234:missing-environment

opened 10:02PM - 31 Mar 25 UTC

per1234

+6 -5

Certain operations in the "Arduino IDE" GitHub Actions workflow use [GitHub Acti…ons secrets](https://docs.github.com/actions/security-for-github-actions/security-guides/using-secrets-in-github-actions) which are defined in the repository's administrative settings. These secrets will typically not be defined when the workflow is run in a [fork](https://docs.github.com/get-started/quickstart/fork-a-repo). However, the workflow's base functionality, the automated building of the application, does not require secrets. Since that base functionality alone is very useful to contributors (either to validate relevant changes to the application and infrastructure, or to generate [tester builds](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/blob/main/docs/contributor-guide/beta-testing.md)) who are performing development work in a fork. For this reason, the workflow is configured to only perform the secret-dependent operations when the required secrets have been defined in the repository settings. One such operation is publishing the generated builds to [Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/), which Arduino uses to host files for distribution. This operation depends on the `AWS_ROLE_ARN` secret. As a security measure, this secret is defined inside a [deployment environment](https://docs.github.com/actions/security-for-github-actions/security-guides/using-secrets-in-github-actions#creating-secrets-for-an-environment) (named `production`). GitHub Actions workflow jobs can only use secrets from deployment environments which they have been explicitly configured to have access to. At the time the workflow was originally developed, GitHub did not have the [deployment environment feature](https://docs.github.com/actions/writing-workflows/choosing-what-your-workflow-does/using-environments-for-deployment), and so the workflow was not configured to use environments. The switch to using a deployment environment for this secret was made only recently (https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/pull/2651), and when that was done, the workflow job that checks whether the secret is defined was not configured to have access to the `production` environment. This caused the workflow to think it was running in a context where that secret is not defined even when the secret is in fact defined. The bug caused the workflow to always spuriously skip the `publish` job which publishes [nightly builds](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/blob/main/docs/contributor-guide/beta-testing.md#testing-nightly-build) of Arduino IDE, and the "publish release" step which publishes production releases. For example, if you look at the latest `schedule` event triggered run of the workflow, which is intended to publish the nightly build, you can see that the `publish` job was incorrectly skipped: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/actions/runs/14163321599/job/39672908643 > This job was skipped The bug is fixed by [configuring](https://docs.github.com/actions/writing-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idenvironment) the `build-type-determination` job so that it has access to the "production" environment. --- Originally reported by @KurtE: https://forum.arduino.cc/t/software-download-item-nightly-2-x-builds/1369196

Once that is merged, the an up-to-date nightly build will be published.

Until then, you can get the nightly build from GitHub. I'll provide instructions:

Log into your GitHub account.
ⓘ This is required because GitHub only allows downloading workflow run artifacts when you are logged in.
Click the following link to see the list of runs of the build workflow in your web browser:
https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/actions/workflows/build.yml?query=event%3Aschedule
Click the entry at the top of the list.
The summary page for that workflow run will open.
Scroll down to the "Artifacts" section of the page.
Click the appropriate artifact download link for you operating system.
ⓘ If you are using Windows, click the "Windows_X86-64_zip" link.
Your browser will now start a file download. Wait for it to finish.
Extract the downloaded ZIP file.

You can now use the extracted file just the same as you would with the nightly build downloaded from the "Software" page of arduino.cc. Note that, the archive you downloaded may contain another archive file (e.g., Windows_64bit.zip), which you will need to extract in turn. This silly "archive in an archive" situation is the result of technical limitations of the GitHub Actions workflow artifact system.

Thanks. Bumps of the Arduino CLI, and even far more so the Eclipse Theia Platform IDE framework dependencies of Arduino IDE are very significant changes which have historically been frequent sources of significant regressions. So beta testing is very much welcome.

Thanks for bringing this serious bug to my attention!

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