The dependency update (pnpm/pnpm#14205) broke TS CI / Compile & Lint in
two independent ways.
streamx 2.28.1 declares the 'data' event payload as unknown, so the five
tar-stream data handlers in the releasing commands that annotated the
chunk as Buffer no longer typechecked. They now take the chunk as
unknown and cast at the use site; tar-stream emits Buffers at runtime,
so the emitted JavaScript is unchanged.
The Node.js v26.8.0 binaries on nodejs.org were built with a bogus
version string and self-report as 26.8.0-alpha.0.0.0 (Node.js shipped
26.8.1 the next day to correct it). That prerelease-looking version made
cspell's engine guard reject the runtime during lint and made node-gyp
request a nonexistent v26.8.0-alpha.0.0.0 headers tarball for native
builds. The pinned runtime is bumped to 26.8.1 in the root devEngines,
the compile-only script, the CI test matrix, and the benchmark and
release workflows.
Zoltan Kochan
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