Fixing this with zizmor v1.25.0:
```
error[unpinned-images]: unpinned image references
--> .github/workflows/linux-old.yml:59:5
59 | container: 'debian:stretch'
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ container image is not pinned to a SHA256 hash
= help: audit documentation -> https://docs.zizmor.sh/audits/#unpinned-images
[...]
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/25890035949/job/76090925291?pr=21618
Sadly there is no automatic mechanism to bump them..
Also:
- replace `debian-stretch` with its slim variant.
- bump one of the two Alpine jobs from 3.20 to 3.23.4.
Closes#21619
Fixing:
```
==> Installing openssl@3 dependency: ca-certificates
==> Pouring ca-certificates--2026-05-14.all.bottle.tar.gz
Error: undefined method '[]' for nil
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/bottles.rb:127:in 'Utils::Bottles.load_tab'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:1507:in 'FormulaInstaller#pour'
[...]
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:114:in '<main>'
You have disabled automatic updates and have not updated today.
Do not report this issue until you've run `brew update` and tried again.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/25859030402/job/75984082148?pr=21607
Dropping `HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` was not enough to fix it.
Closes#21608
- update action `actions/cache` from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5
- update action `actions/upload-artifact` from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1
- update action `github/codeql-action` from 4.32.4 to 4.35.2
- update action `msys2/setup-msys2` from 2.31.0 to 2.31.1
- update pip `filelock` from 3.25.2 to 3.29.0
- update pip `impacket` to 0.13.0
- update pip `ruff` from 0.15.10 to 0.15.12
Closes#21483Closes#21482
- prefer `--branch` over `-b`, where missing.
- add `--depth 1` where missing.
- sync option order between docs and GHA.
- bump quiche and rustls-ffi versions in documentation.
- ECH.md: update for OpenSSL 4.
Closes#21447
Due to year-long unreliability.
The default Ubuntu mirror works as fast as the Azure one when it's
working at its normal speed. And has HTTPS.
Also:
- replac the retry hack that turn out to not solve the problem.
- add timeouts to each download step to catch slowness early.
Follow-up to a5838847c4#21181
Follow-up to 5172ba5475#21107Closes#21414
GitHub runners are getting new 3rd-party sources frequntly now, last
week `docker.list`, this week: `google-chrome.sources`. To avoid
playing catch up, allowlist the only one we use: `ubuntu.sources`. If
this is renamed, CI would break. Let's hope this happens much less
often than new sources.
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21414#issuecomment-4297788640
Follow-up to 3e0e2cc1ab#21344Closes#21416
Seen on `ubuntu-slim` runners.
Also:
- extend to two jobs to `ls -l` package sources on both ubuntu-latest,
ubuntu-24.04-arm, and ubuntu-slim.
- drop former stray apt source `ondrej-ubuntu-php-noble.sources`.
It's no longer present on the image.
Closes#21344
- rename version env to stay compatible with Renovate `matchStrings`.
- also switch to manual bumps.
Bump rule was wrong, and deemed not worthy the complexity to fix.
Closes#21319
- examples: sync debug output printf masks.
- INSTALL-CMAKE.md: tidy up section for some options.
- curl_sha512_256: delete comment suggesting an optimization.
- vtls/keylog: scope a variable.
- vtls/openssl: make a source code URL a permalink.
- vtls/schannel: drop redundant parentheses.
- test1119.pl: robustify `$1` -> `$s`.
- sync arg names in comments to match the code.
- tidy up and minor fixes to comments.
- fix formatting/indenting/comment/newline/include nits.
- move `UNITTEST` protos next to definitions, sync their argument names.
- make variables static.
- add parentheses to Perl `open()` calls.
- drop unnecessary double quotes in Perl.
- clang-format.
Closes#21000
- update `actions/cache` from 5.0.3 to 5.0.4
- update `actions/download-artifact` from 7.0.0 to 8.0.1
- update `actions/upload-artifact` from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0
- update `msys2/setup-msys2` from 2.30.0 to 2.31.0
- update pip `ruff` from 0.15.7 to 0.15.8
Closes#21195Closes#21197
- fail if all retries failed.
- run `dpkg --configure -a` after an aborted slow attempt.
```
Selecting previously unselected package libsys-hostname-long-perl.
Error: slow server, retry
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
[...]
```
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21107#issuecomment-4163506100
Follow-up to 5172ba5475#21107Closes#21181
It's been going on for almost a year, chances seem slim to have this
fixed upstream.
The observed issue is that on GitHub-supplied CI runner images,
sometimes, `apt-get install` using the stock distro server
`http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu` sees extreme slowness while
downloading data, then reaching the job timeout and aborting, making CI
red and necessitating a manual restart of the failed job(s).
In majority of cases the install step takes no longer than 8-40 seconds
(download + install), while in the failing case it takes 10-20+ minutes
just to download.
Earlier I slimmed down installs to avoid unnecessary packages, which
mitigated, but did not completely fix the issue.
Example:
https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/23599596928/job/68725576899?pr=21105
Follow-up to 0455d8772a#18509Closes#21107
Verify if lines are not longer than 192 characters. Also verify if lines
have less than 79 repeat spaces (and fix one fallout).
To improve readability by avoiding long lines and to prevent adding
overly long lines with text that may go unnoticed in an editor or diff
viewer.
In addition to pre-existing line length limits: 79 for C, 132 for CMake
sources.
Also:
- spacecheck: fix/harden allowlist regexes.
- spacecheck: tidy-up quotes and simplify escaping.
- spacecheck: allow folding strings with repeat spaces.
- GHA: fix a suppressed shellcheck warning.
- GHA/macos: simplify by dropping brew bundle.
- test1119.pl: precompile a regex.
- FAQ.md: delete very long link to a Windows 7/2008 support article
that's lost it relevance.
Closes#21087
- librtmp has no test cases, makes no proper releases and has not had a
single commit within the last year
- librtmp parses the URL itself and requires non-compliant URLs for this
- we have no RTMP tests
- RTMP was used by 2.2% of curl users (self-identified in the 2025
survey)
Closes#20673
- update action `actions/cache` from 5.0.1 to 5.0.3
- update action `github/codeql-action` from 4.31.9 to 4.32.4
- update pip `filelock` from 3.20.3 to 3.24.3
- update pip `ruff` from 0.14.14 to 0.15.2
Closes#20782Closes#20783
`scan-build` is a (Perl) wrapper around clang's built-in `--analyze`
option. Which look similar or identical to clang-tidy checkers under
the `clang-analyzer-*` namespace:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangStaticAnalyzer.html
Unless somebody has other information, it appears redundant to run
scan-build in parallel with clang-tidy in CI, now that the latter is
working reliably and with good performance for all curl components.
Another scan-build issue is the lack of a markup to suppress false
positives. It ignores `NOLINT`, yet finds the same false positives as
clang-tidy. This happens with scan-build v20+. v18 is silent, but it's
a blocker to upgrade to a newer version.
scan-build may still be a useful when combined with autotools, where
clang-tidy support is incomplete, slow (no parallelism), and uses
a distinct make target, which does not build binaries in the same pass.
But, scan-build also lacks extra checkers that are now enabled for
clang-tidy.
The clang-tidy job is also 30-40s faster than the one it replaced.
Also:
- drop scan-build job configured the same way as a clang-tidy one.
CI time saved: 6m30s
- bump to clang-20 (from 18) in the replacement job.
- build tests in the replacement job.
To verify a cmake command-line reconstruction issue only hit in this
job in CI.
CI time cost: 1m40s
- replacement job caught a minor, new, issue.
Ref: b2076d3c2f#20752
- drop unused scan-build logic.
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20732#issuecomment-3963873838
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20732#issuecomment-3967479228Closes#20751