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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial May 6, 2025

UPDATE: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/114463114056172083

sigrok's website is down with a message saying their hosting provider suffered a massive data loss

they say it'll be back soon, and they link to a directory with all the downloads in the meantime

I just downloaded `pulseview-0.4.2-64bit-static-release-installer.exe` from there, along with two archived copies from the Internet Archive (2023-02 and 2024-08). both IA copies have the same hash. the one currently being hosted is identical in length, but not hash.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (@[email protected])

update on the sigrok situation: the binaries almost certainly got corrupted during the data loss event that the hosting provider suffered, rather than being maliciously modified. there are strong indications that some of the data that got written into the binaries came from other tenants on the same hosting provider. the sigrok team are going to pull the downloads until clean backup copies can be verified and uploaded. thanks to everyone who took the time to look into this!

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Ewen McNeill

@gsuberland FTR the sigrok webserver data corruption happened a month or more ago (there’s some history/context in the sigrok IRC channel mirrored into the 1bitsquared Discord around early April 2025).

From memory it sounded like cross linked blocks in the file system, which corrupted webserver software. I guess it’s possible it also corrupted other files too.

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Ewen McNeill May 6, 2025

@gsuberland IIRC the website owner has offline copies of the sigrok software so could restore those. (But not if the hosting setup, so rebuilding the website hosting was taking a while.)

I think they had assumed the corruption was limited to just the website hosting binaries. And maybe not double checked all the sigrok software archives. So good that you checked.