Missing ARM 32bits release files cause error when setting up remote

[Marcool04]

Describe the bug

It seems that since v1.112.01907, there have been no more releases for 32 bit ARM.

I can't imagine many developers use VSCodium on 32bit ARM platforms, but this does cause issues when one tries to open a remote machine that uses that architecture (as I, for instance, wanted to do on an old raspberry pi...). One is then faced with:

[Trace  - 14:27:23.737] Server install command stderr:
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/1.126.04524/vscodium-reh-linux-armhf-1.126.04524.tar.gz:
2026-08-29 16:27:23 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Please confirm that this problem is VSCodium-specific

• This bug doesn't happen if I use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. It only happens in VSCodium.

Please confirm that the issue/resolution isn't already documented

• I checked the Docs page and the Troubleshooting page and my issue is not mentioned there.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/tag/1.112.01907
2. Notice the ARM 32bits releases
3. Go to https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/tag/1.126.04524
4. Notice there are no ARM 32 bit releases, not even for Remote Host (reh)

Expected behavior

All releases should contain ARM 32bit releases.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

Unless I am mistaken, this is not relevant here since this is an online CI/CD build pipeline issue not a local one

Additional context

I noticed that #2466 seems to have been a previous similar instance. I searched for any kind of official announcement of ARM 32bit being dropped but couldn't find any.

[daiyam]

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#previously-supported-platforms

ARM 32bits has been dropped due to Node-v24 not being compatible.
But, if you can provide compatible Node-v24, I don't see any issue to bring it back.

[Marcool04]

Thanks for the quick response @daiyam, and my apologies for missing that very clear section of the README...

I see here that this is a problem for various projects: actions/runner#3983

Right, so I get how basically "all it would take" (haha) is a node v24 binary for armv7. But even https://github.com/nodejs/unofficial-builds/ does not provide any 32bit arm builds above v22 (strangely, they have armv6 which corresponds to the RPi 1 for instance, which I would have thought is less common than the RPi 2 which uses armv7... but anyhow). I imagine that in any case, the demand is just too minimal for these kinds of builds.

I'm currently trying to build node v24 for armv7, I'll see where that (likely) fails and take a look at how involved getting it to work would be.

[Marcool04]

Oh, somebody did it already: https://github.com/4meters/node-for-armv7 !

I can confirm it works on my armv7 machine:

[mark@rpi ~]$ cd .nvm/versions/node/
[mark@rpi node]$ tar -xf ~/node-v26.7.0-linux-armv7l.tar.gz 
[mark@rpi node]$ ls
drwxr-xr-x mark mark 4.0 KB Mon Aug 31 07:56:11 2026  .
drwxr-xr-x mark mark 4.0 KB Mon Aug 31 07:55:57 2026  ..
drwxr-xr-x mark mark 4.0 KB Thu Aug 13 14:43:18 2026  v26.7.0
[mark@rpi node]$ cd ..
[mark@rpi versions]$ cd ..
[mark@rpi .nvm]$ cd
[mark@rpi ~]$ nvm list
        v26.7.0
iojs -> N/A (default)
unstable -> N/A (default)
node -> stable (-> v26.7.0) (default)
stable -> 26.7 (-> v26.7.0) (default)
[mark@rpi ~]$ nvm use 26.7.0
Now using node v26.7.0 (npm v11.19.0)
[mark@rpi ~]$ node --version
v26.7.0
[mark@rpi ~]$ node -p 'process.arch'
arm
[mark@rpi ~]$ node -p 'process.platform'
linux

[daiyam]

I've just asked for a v24 version (4meters/node-for-armv7#1)

[Marcool04]

Great! If the maintainer of that repo only wants to build the latest version, I can also fork it and adapt the runner to build the latest 24.x.x

[Marcool04]

Actually this is already kind of built into 4meters' build runner, since it has a parameter to chose the major version:

https://github.com/4meters/node-for-armv7/blob/f3fefd41582d7a71ed2b2f42a46c33b524ddbc2c/.github/workflows/build-for-armv7.yml#L5-L9

I've forked, tweeked it a bit, and started a build for v24.x which is running right now: https://github.com/Marcool04/node-24-for-armv7/actions/workflows/build-for-armv7.yml ... let's see how that goes!

[daiyam]

Ok. I need to add it back.

[Marcool04]

Great work @daiyam! Thanks for being on top of this 👍️

[Marcool04]

(Now I think of it, should this issue remain open until a new release appears with an armv7 build in it? Would that make more sense to the end user maybe?)

[daiyam]

Let's keep open until you have tested it ;)

[Marcool04]

indeed 😁