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The required check hosted test (self-hosted Linux) fails on every PR (first seen on #659) for two separate reasons that both arrived after the last green run on main (21 Oct).

1. Build. GitHub moved ubuntu-latest from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04. The ts_python pyo3 cdylib links libpython3.12, which 26.04 does not ship, and the target/ cache key has no image name in it, so 26.04 also restored a pyo3 build config made on 24.04. The build failed with rust-lld: error: unable to find library -lpython3.12. This PR pins the job to ubuntu-24.04, the image its setup was written for. Moving to 26.04 later means teaching the provisioning step a newer Python and adding the image to the cache key.
2. Supply-chain audit. RUSTSEC-2026-0385: ctutils 0.4.2 (digest -> blake2 -> argon2 -> ts_tka) can branch on secret values in its constant-time mask generation and u128 comparisons. cargo update -p ctutils moves it to 0.4.6 and nothing else, and the cargo vet exemption moves with it. Locally, cargo deny check advisories fails on the old lockfile and passes on the new one, and cargo vet --locked succeeds.

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Walkthrough

The hosted_test job now runs on ubuntu-24.04 instead of ubuntu-latest. Comments document the libpython3.12 dependency and the cache key’s lack of image distinction.

Changes: Hosted Test Runner

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pin the hosted test image .github/workflows/ci.yml	The workflow pins hosted_test to ubuntu-24.04. Comments state that the newer image lacks libpython3.12 and that the cache key does not distinguish images.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · up to 9cd7a

The pin to ubuntu-24.04 should fix the hosted test link failure. The cache key still does not distinguish runner images, so a stale cache from another image could briefly keep the lane failing. Adding the image to the cache key before merging is a small change and removes that risk.

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Title check		The title identifies the CI hosted-test issue and the Ubuntu image change, which are related to the pull request. However, it mentions Ubuntu 26.04 and a ctutils advisory that are not reflected in the…
Description check		The description clearly explains the build failure, cache issue, Ubuntu 24.04 pin, advisory, and validation steps. It does not link an issue or state whether AI tools were used, but the template prese…

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The title identifies the CI hosted-test issue and the Ubuntu image change, which are related to the pull request. However, it mentions Ubuntu 26.04 and a ctutils advisory that are not reflected in the summarized file change.

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The description clearly explains the build failure, cache issue, Ubuntu 24.04 pin, advisory, and validation steps. It does not link an issue or state whether AI tools were used, but the template presents these as guidance rather than required sections.

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Major · Include the runner image in the target cache key. · ci.yml:113

.github/workflows/ci.yml:113
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Include the runner image in the target cache key.

If an existing hosted-test cache contains Ubuntu 26.04 artifacts, the pinned Ubuntu 24.04 job can restore those artifacts because both the exact key and restore prefix omit the runner image. Use an image-specific key.

Proposed cache-key update

-          cache-key: hosted-test
+          cache-key: hosted-test-ubuntu-24.04

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Review comment at @.github/workflows/ci.yml at line 113:
Update the cache-key setting for the hosted test job to include its pinned
Ubuntu 24.04 runner image, so cache keys and restore prefixes distinguish
artifacts built on different images.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Line 113: Update the cache-key setting for the hosted test job to include its
pinned Ubuntu 24.04 runner image, so cache keys and restore prefixes distinguish
artifacts built on different images.

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