Checksums for release artifacts only contain windows images

[sandipb]

When I am looking at the checksums file for the release I only see windows images:

$ curl -sL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/download/v0.129.1/opentelemetry-collector-releases_otelcol-contrib_checksums.txt
fe57edb989e2ffb2c0ba2b7e700759ee5ece5f31ccf58aabe6f238408a00c1b0  otelcol-contrib_0.129.1_windows_386.tar.gz
8db696021dc09c321af22b2fd060f600b48e4af46182ca7289fe912b004658dd  otelcol-contrib_0.129.1_windows_386.tar.gz.sbom.json
f970e1898ecd870f24e552fa6a3322805ab0c4f186d3fe6537b26a792f696f18  otelcol-contrib_0.129.1_windows_amd64.tar.gz
af07f4a1609710188c0359d53f3f8a1fa9434e11a8baccb0ec0278a907acbd5a  otelcol-contrib_0.129.1_windows_amd64.tar.gz.sbom.json
4ab0732ec9bc17c8e7e86b39569ebe06dad88c747822a5c8af5042374cb1469b  otelcol-contrib_0.129.1_windows_x64.msi
79ce9acd2090f2517552da7b276106345223f94be579329450768bc9b9c9bc07  otelcol-contrib_0.129.1_windows_x86.msi

Looking back, it seems that 0.122.0 was the last minor release which had comprehensive checksums.

$ curl -sL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/download/v0.122.0/opentelemetry-collector-releases_otelcol-contrib_checksums.txt|wc -l
      46

$ curl -sL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/download/v0.124.0/opentelemetry-collector-releases_otelcol-contrib_checksums.txt|wc -l
       6

$ curl -sL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/download/v0.129.1/opentelemetry-collector-releases_otelcol-contrib_checksums.txt|wc -l
       6

[dosubot]

Hi @sandipb! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the opentelemetry-collector-releases team.

This isn't an intentional change—recent checksums files only listing Windows artifacts is likely due to a CI workflow failure or misconfiguration in the release process. The release automation and configuration still specify multiplatform builds and checksums for all artifacts, including Linux and Darwin, so non-Windows artifacts should be present. This issue has happened before (see issue #924), where failed release pipelines caused missing non-Windows packages and checksums; re-running the pipeline resolved it.

Recent workflow changes (like PR #981) updated dependencies but did not intentionally restrict builds to Windows. There are also known issues with GitHub Actions tokens and workflow triggers (issue #833) that can prevent artifact generation if not configured correctly.

Best next steps: review the workflow run logs for failed jobs or missing artifacts, and re-run the release pipeline if possible. Monitoring future workflow changes should help catch and resolve these regressions.

To reply, just mention @dosu.

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[mowies]

I'm not entirely sure yet, but I think something unwanted happened in #872

We should add a small regression test to https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/blob/main/.github/workflows/regression-tests.yaml to catch this in the future.

[sandipb]

Do you think the replace_existing_artifacts additions in that commit could cause the identical checksums file for each os overwrite each other?

[mowies]

yeah, i think the checksums from each builds target are overwriting the previous ones

[mowies]

it also seems that all otel collector distros are affected here