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…liveness checks oven-sh/WebKit#403 (bumped in by #37352) removed the December 2025 arrangement that kept JSC's GC liveness checks and x86_64 fences out of the inliner's hands. It was added for the linux x64 musl LTO build, and since its removal that lane has crashed three times in GC marking threads on already-collected cells (builds 96675, 97509, 100350; the last one took down test/cli/install/bun-audit.test.ts through its verdaccio process). oven-sh/WebKit#466 restores it. Pinned to the preview artifacts for CI; re-pin to the merged sha before merging.
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Updated 11:50 PM PT - Aug 17th, 2026
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Status: closed without merging. The attribution of the alpine x64 GC crashes to oven-sh/WebKit#403 did not hold up (the December 2025 precedent was a Bun-side bug, fixed in 22b3be4), so oven-sh/WebKit#466 is closed and there is nothing to bump to. |
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Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The current build dependency points to temporary WebKit preview artifacts that may be removed when this PR merges, causing future builds to fail with HTTP 404. Repin it to the merged WebKit commit before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts`:
- Line 6: Update WEBKIT_VERSION from the temporary autobuild preview pin to the
merged WebKit main SHA, ensuring scripts/build/download.ts resolves a persistent
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| * From https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit releases. | ||
| */ | ||
| export const WEBKIT_VERSION = "eeab04040fa61fd595695980f9d054b7fc0ed855"; | ||
| export const WEBKIT_VERSION = "autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6"; |
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repo_root="$(pwd -P)"
webkit_file="$repo_root/scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts"
version="$(sed -nE 's/^[[:space:]]*export const WEBKIT_VERSION = "([^"]+)";$/\1/p' "$webkit_file")"
test -n "$version"
printf 'WEBKIT_VERSION=%s\n' "$version"
git -C "$repo_root" grep -n -E 'WEBKIT_VERSION|rev-parse --verify|commit' -- \
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cat -n scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts | sed -n '1,90p'
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rg -n --glob '*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx,rs,cpp,h,hpp}' \
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printf '%s\n' '--- dependency schema and dedicated commit fields ---'
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text = p.read_text()
m = re.search(r'export const WEBKIT_VERSION = "([^"]+)";', text)
assert m, f"WEBKIT_VERSION not found in {p}"
version = m.group(1)
print(f"absolute_file={p}")
print(f"version={version}")
print(f"is_40_hex_sha={bool(re.fullmatch(r'[0-9a-fA-F]{40}', version))}")
print(f"is_preview_identifier={version.startswith('autobuild-preview-')}")
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base = "https://api.github.com"
headers = {"Accept": "application/vnd.github+json", "User-Agent": "review-verifier"}
for path in (
"/repos/oven-sh/WebKit/pulls/466",
"/repos/oven-sh/WebKit/git/ref/tags/autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6",
):
req = urllib.request.Request(base + path, headers=headers)
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with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=20) as response:
data = json.load(response)
if path.endswith("/pulls/466"):
print(json.dumps({
"state": data.get("state"),
"merged": data.get("merged"),
"merge_commit_sha": data.get("merge_commit_sha"),
"head_sha": data.get("head", {}).get("sha"),
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pr = get("/repos/oven-sh/WebKit/pulls/466")
sha = pr.get("merge_commit_sha")
print(f"merge_commit_sha={sha}")
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raise SystemExit("No merge commit is available")
commit = get(f"/repos/oven-sh/WebKit/commits/{sha}")
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Replace the temporary WebKit preview pin before merge.
scripts/build/download.ts states that preview releases are removed when the PR merges or closes, causing prebuilt builds to return HTTP 404. Set WEBKIT_VERSION to the merged WebKit main SHA.
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In `@scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts` at line 6, Update WEBKIT_VERSION from the
temporary autobuild preview pin to the merged WebKit main SHA, ensuring
scripts/build/download.ts resolves a persistent artifact rather than a preview
release that may be removed after the PR closes.
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Intentional for now: the preview pin is what runs the full matrix against oven-sh/WebKit#466 while it is open (same flow as the other preview-pinned bumps). It gets replaced with the merged main sha, and this thread resolved, once #466 lands; the PR body lists that as a precondition for merging this one.
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@robobun, thanks for the clarification. The temporary preview pin is appropriate while oven-sh/WebKit#466 is open and CI validates its artifacts.
The finding remains a pre-merge requirement. Keep this thread open until WEBKIT_VERSION is replaced with the immutable merged SHA after #466 lands.
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Learning: For oven-sh/bun startup snapshot dependency updates, scripts/build/deps/mimalloc.ts and scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts may temporarily pin preview artifacts while the corresponding upstream pull requests remain unmerged. Keep the related pull request blocked from merging until those upstream changes land; then update both dependency pins and the matching process.versions assertion to immutable merged commit SHAs.
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| * From https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit releases. | ||
| */ | ||
| export const WEBKIT_VERSION = "eeab04040fa61fd595695980f9d054b7fc0ed855"; | ||
| export const WEBKIT_VERSION = "autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6"; |
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🔴 WEBKIT_VERSION is pinned to autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6, an ephemeral preview tag that GitHub deletes as soon as oven-sh/WebKit#466 merges or closes — at which point every fresh build 404s on the prebuilt tarball. As the PR description notes, this must be re-pinned to the merged oven-sh/WebKit main sha before landing.
Extended reasoning...
What this is
WEBKIT_VERSION at scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:6 is set to autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6, a preview-release tag rather than a commit sha on oven-sh/WebKit's main. The build system's own error handling documents why this is a sharp edge — scripts/build/download.ts:313-332 has a dedicated 404 handler for exactly this case:
autobuild-preview-pr-*WebKit tags … GitHub deletes the preview release when the PR merges or closes, so every build 404s at once.
The PR description acknowledges this is intentional-but-temporary: "Currently pinned to the PR's preview artifacts to run the full matrix; to be re-pinned to the merged main sha before this merges." This comment is the enforcement gate for that.
Code path
prebuiltUrl() (webkit.ts:69-75) reads cfg.webkitVersion, sees it already starts with autobuild-, and uses it verbatim as the release tag: https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/releases/download/autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6/bun-webkit-<os>-<arch><suffix>.tar.gz. prebuiltDestDir() (webkit.ts:80-85) also handles the autobuild- prefix correctly for cache keying, so the pin works today — the handling is not the bug. The bug is that the release tag is deleted server-side once the WebKit PR closes.
Why nothing prevents it
There is no fallback. When the release disappears, download() gets an HTTP 404 and prebuiltDownloadError() (download.ts:319-333) throws a BuildError telling the user to edit WEBKIT_VERSION — a good error message, but it still fails the build. Cached extractions in ~/.bun/cache/webkit-preview-pr-466-… will keep working on machines that already downloaded it, which masks the breakage locally while every fresh checkout (main CI, new contributors, clean clones) fails hard.
Step-by-step failure
- This PR merges to
mainwithWEBKIT_VERSION = "autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6". - Restore the out-of-line GC liveness checks and x86_64 fences removed in #403 WebKit#466 merges (or closes). oven-sh/WebKit's release workflow deletes the
autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6release. - A CI job or developer with a cold cache runs
bun bd.resolveDepfor WebKit callsprebuiltUrl(cfg)→ GET…/releases/download/autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6/bun-webkit-linux-amd64-musl-lto.tar.gz→ HTTP 404. prebuiltDownloadError()throws: "WebKit preview release is gone … Set WEBKIT_VERSION in scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts to the merged main sha".mainis broken for every lane and every fresh clone until someone lands a follow-up bump.
Impact
Concrete build failure on main: all CI lanes with a cold WebKit cache go red, and every fresh bun bd fails, the moment the upstream WebKit PR resolves. The timing is out of this repo's control — it could be minutes after this lands.
Fix
Before merging, update line 6 to the sha of the commit that lands oven-sh/WebKit#466 on main (the corresponding autobuild-<sha> release), e.g.:
export const WEBKIT_VERSION = "<merged-main-40-hex-sha>";No other change needed — prebuiltUrl()/prebuiltDestDir() already handle plain 40-hex shas (they prepend autobuild- and slice to 16 chars for the cache dir).
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Agreed, and it is the plan: the preview pin exists to run the full matrix against oven-sh/WebKit#466 while it is open. Line 6 gets the merged main sha, and this thread gets resolved, once #466 lands; until then this PR is not mergeable by design (the body says so too).
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Closing: oven-sh/WebKit#466 is closed, so there is nothing to bump to. The reason is in the closing comment there. In short, the December 2025 failure that the restored arrangement was added for turned out to have been a Bun-side missing root, fixed in 22b3be4 two weeks after the arrangement went in, so the arrangement was never shown to fix anything, and its removal in #37352 is not established as the cause of the current alpine x64 crashes. The same bump also carried the Yarr JIT rework (oven-sh/WebKit#299), and the mimalloc dev3 sync (#37367) landed a day before the first hit, so the timing does not point at one thing. What remains is the crash cluster itself: three GC-marking crashes on already-collected cells on |
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Follow-up on the crash cluster handed off above (builds 96675, 97509, 100350). The cause is still unknown. New facts:
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test/cli/install/bun-audit.test.tswent red on:alpine: 3.23 x64in build 100350: 130 tests in, every remaining case failed withUnable to connect/GET ... - 500. The test file is the victim. Its verdaccio registry, which the harness runs under the bun being tested, died withpanic: Segmentation fault at address 0x9036000020in a GC marking thread (HeapHelpercore):MarkedBlock::aboutToMark<-SlotVisitor::appendHiddenUnbarriered<-SlotVisitor::appendValuesHidden<-JSObjectWithButterfly::visitButterflyImpl(the contiguous-elements lambda, JSObject.cpp:138) <-JSObjectWithButterfly::visitChildren. A slot of a contiguous butterfly held a non-pointer: the object being visited had already been collected and its butterfly memory reused.bun-patch.test.ts, byte-identical stack, fault0x3E1D000020, 2.5 s into verdaccio's startup) and build 96675 (08-14,test-http-proxy-request.mjs, fault0xD0inMethodTable::visitChildren, i.e. a zapped cell popped off the mark stack). No other lane has hit this, and a scan of the annotations of all 3081 failed builds from 07-29 to 08-18 (plus the canceled ones from 08-08 on) shows nothing comparable before 08-14 on any lane.Heap::isMarked,MarkedBlock::isMarked,MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive,Dependency::fence/loadAndFence) out of line and usedstd::atomic_thread_fencefor the x86_64 fences. That arrangement was added for exactly this configuration (linux x64 musl LTO, objects collected while still live,blob-write.test.tsat the time). Support for completion in Bash #403 attributed the December failure to the upstreamWTF::opaque()volatility fix, but on x86_64 none of those paths useopaque()(Dependency::fencediscards it,loadAndFenceonly uses it on ARM), so the fix it cited never reached the code that failed, and removing the arrangement brought the failure back. The full write-up is in Restore the out-of-line GC liveness checks and x86_64 fences removed in #403 WebKit#466.Fix
WEBKIT_VERSIONto Restore the out-of-line GC liveness checks and x86_64 fences removed in #403 WebKit#466, which puts back what Support for completion in Bash #403 removed (function bodies unchanged; comments now record what is and is not known so the next attempt to inline these starts from the evidence). Currently pinned to the PR's preview artifacts to run the full matrix; to be re-pinned to the merged main sha before this merges. Bun is at the fork's current tip (eeab04040fa6), so nothing else rides along.ObjectPrototypeInlines.hinclude from Bump WebKit to 3997b59485da #37352 stays correct either way. Cost is the pre-Support for completion in Bash #403 codegen Bun shipped through 1.3.x.BUN_JSC_useZombieMode=1 BUN_JSC_collectContinuously=1on a glibc release build carrying Support for completion in Bash #403 stayed clean), so there is nothing a test can fail on before and pass on after. The measure of this change is the alpine x64 lane staying quiet again; if it does not, the mimalloc dev3 sync (mimalloc: sync the fork with upstream dev3, fix the Android emulated-TLS crash #37367, 08-13) is the next candidate (fits on timing, fits worse on architecture since alpine aarch64 has not hit this).-fsyntax-only, clang 21); the preview build covers the WebKit side of the matrix; this PR's CI covers Bun's build and link against it.Background
MarkedBlockheader holds a marking version and a mark bitmap;isMarked/isLiveread the version, then the bits, andisLivevalidates the read against the block'sCountingLock. On x86_64 the ordering between those reads is expressed only as compiler fences, which is why how these functions get compiled is where the protocol can go wrong, and why the December stopgap took them out of the inliner's hands.