https://arrow.apache.org/adbc/current/driver/installation.html which
can be traversed to from https://arrow.apache.org. I created [1] to
address the information gaps on that page.

https://github.com/apache/arrow-adbc/issues/3946

On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 11:32 AM Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What is the downloads page for Arrow ADBC? The Arrow downloads page only 
> includes Arrow releases, so it looks as if ADBC isn’t complying with the 
> policy for downloads pages: 
> https://infra.apache.org/release-download-pages.html#download-page
>
> > On Feb 9, 2026, at 11:25 AM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Re "checksums are linked in the vote thread”. Are any of those checksums 
> > still available? The linked by the vote, 
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/arrow/apache-arrow-adbc-21-rc0 
> > appears to be broken.
> >
> > To put it another way. Can you prove that the artifact you voted on had 
> > hash 
> > 74d9dedd15bce71bfbc5bce00ad1aa91be84623010e2a01e6846343a7acc93e36fb263a08cc8437a9467bf63a2c7aca4b14d413325d5afb96b590408d918b27e.
> >  If not, we have a provenance problem.
> >
> >> On Feb 9, 2026, at 11:02 AM, Bryce Mecum <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sorry for any confusion caused, Julian. I didn't mean to imply the
> >> GitHub URL was the definitive location for the asset and I only linked
> >> it because I know it's the same artifact as what's uploaded to ASF and
> >> it was near at hand. I otherwise would've linked to [1].
> >>
> >> Re: the potential policy violations, I can put up a PR to add the
> >> latest closer.lua URL to [2] which may address your first point and,
> >> for the second point, the checksums are linked in the vote thread so
> >> everything looks fine there.
> >>
> >> [1] 
> >> https://archive.apache.org/dist/arrow/apache-arrow-adbc-21/apache-arrow-adbc-21.tar.gz
> >> [2] https://arrow.apache.org/adbc/current/driver/installation.html
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 10:14 AM Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Where is the definitive location for the ADBC 21 source tarball? It 
> >>> should be on ASF infrastructure, not GitHub.com <http://github.com/>.
> >>>
> >>> We may have a couple of policy violations here. The release announcement 
> >>> for ADBC 21 [1] does not link to any permanent location for downloads. 
> >>> And the SHA512 for the tarball does not appear anywhere in the vote 
> >>> thread for the release [2].
> >>>
> >>> We should not be trying to construct the provenance of a release using 
> >>> circumstantial evidence such as "On *Dec 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM EST*, the 
> >>> SHA512 checksum for that file was …"
> >>>
> >>> Julian
> >>>
> >>> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/dpxqpory5pmd119j85ks7cq9prword9p
> >>> [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/mx2bwkbx51hy8robpnqksw93hrqzhtp9
> >>>
> >>>> On Feb 9, 2026, at 9:17 AM, Bryce Mecum <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hey Rusty,
> >>>>
> >>>> I think the URL you shared is the source archive for the git tag and
> >>>> not the release artifact. If I remember correctly, GitHub has had
> >>>> issues with checksum stability with those URLs in the past and, while
> >>>> the situation has gotten better, we recommend only using the release
> >>>> artifacts anyway [1]. If [1] isn't hash stable, let us know.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] 
> >>>> https://github.com/apache/arrow-adbc/releases/download/apache-arrow-adbc-21/apache-arrow-adbc-21.tar.gz
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 7:30 AM Rusty Conover <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi Arrow Friends,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Apologies in advance if this is the wrong mailing list or if I’m 
> >>>>> missing something obvious — but I’ve run into something odd with the 
> >>>>> `apache-arrow-adbc-21.tar.gz` release artifact.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I’ve been building ADBC via vcpkg as part of my `adbc_scanner` DuckDB 
> >>>>> extension, using the following source archive:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://github.com/apache/arrow-adbc/archive/apache-arrow-adbc-21.tar.gz
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On *Dec 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM EST*, the SHA512 checksum for that file was:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> `74d9dedd15bce71bfbc5bce00ad1aa91be84623010e2a01e6846343a7acc93e36fb263a08cc8437a9467bf63a2c7aca4b14d413325d5afb96b590408d918b27e
> >>>>> `
> >>>>> I know this definitively because that hash is recorded in my vcpkg 
> >>>>> overlay file, and CI completed successfully at the time.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Since then, however, the SHA512 checksum for the same URL now resolves 
> >>>>> to:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> `2c15c67d12b6b5ceafdd284038bff71136bac24b9aff1791ed0657e0f0a56ca713e641f9d1032918179af6c387762491c022f43d32995f94a749a60c7b91f20b
> >>>>> `
> >>>>> This is currently causing reproducible CI failures on the `v1.4` branch 
> >>>>> of my extension, which you can see starting here:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://github.com/Query-farm/adbc_scanner/actions?page=5
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Did I miss an announcement, or was the release artifact rebuilt or 
> >>>>> replaced after the initial publication?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks in advance for any clarification, and sorry again if this is my 
> >>>>> fault.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best wishes,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rusty
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> https://query.farm
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >
>

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