Linux ARM64 wheels not available on PyPI for DuckDB 1.4.3/1.4.4

[alexander-grun]

What happens?

DuckDB versions 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 do not have Linux ARM64 (manylinux2014_aarch64)
wheels available on PyPI, which prevents deployment to AWS Lambda ARM64
(Graviton) instances.

When trying to install with uv for cross-compilation to ARM64, I get:

× No solution found when resolving dependencies:
╰─▶ Because only the following versions of duckdb are available:
duckdb<=1.4.3
duckdb==1.4.4
and duckdb>=1.4.3 has no usable wheels, we can conclude that
duckdb>=1.4.3 cannot be used.

  hint: Wheels are required for `duckdb` because building from source is
  disabled for all packages (i.e., with `--no-build`)

Version 1.2.2 works fine as it has ARM64 wheels available on PyPI.

To Reproduce

1. Use AWS Agents Core or any tool that cross-compiles for Linux ARM64
2. Add duckdb==1.4.3 or duckdb==1.4.4 to requirements.txt
3. Try to install with: uv pip install --platform linux --python-version 3.12
   --target ./deps duckdb==1.4.3
4. Installation fails due to missing ARM64 wheels

This works with duckdb==1.2.2 which has manylinux2014_aarch64 wheels on PyPI.

OS:

Linux ARM64

DuckDB Version:

1.4.3 / 1.4.4

DuckDB Client:

Python 3.12

Hardware:

No response

Full Name:

Alexander Grun

Affiliation:

Own project

Did you include all relevant configuration (e.g., CPU architecture, Linux distribution) to reproduce the issue?

• Yes, I have

Did you include all code required to reproduce the issue?

• Yes, I have

Did you include all relevant data sets for reproducing the issue?

Not applicable - the reproduction does not require a data set

[szarnyasg]

@alexander-grun the images are available for manylinux_2_28, this is likely too new for the Lambda instances.

Here's a a test in Docker/Ubuntu:

root@9aef9386e5d2:/# pip3 install duckdb==1.4.4 --break-system-packages
Collecting duckdb==1.4.4
  Downloading duckdb-1.4.4-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_26_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl.metadata (4.3 kB)
Downloading duckdb-1.4.4-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_26_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl (18.4 MB)
   ──────────────────────────────────────── 18.4/18.4 MB 29.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: duckdb
  Attempting uninstall: duckdb
    Found existing installation: duckdb 1.4.3
    Uninstalling duckdb-1.4.3:
      Successfully uninstalled duckdb-1.4.3
Successfully installed duckdb-1.4.4
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result

I'm moving this over to duckdb-python and handing it over to @evertlammerts

[evertlammerts]

We've been building for glibc >= 2.27 since 1.3.0.

From what I can gather, Amazon Linux 2 ships with glibc 2.26. Amazon Linux 2023 ships with glibc 2.34.

Lambda supports Amazon Linux 2023 as well?

[alexander-grun]

this is inside AWS agentcore with direct deploy, I will open the issue with them, thanks!