Simplified and faster build process with Windows Arm Support

[NorthernMan54]

Backlog

actions/create-release needs to be replaced

Breaking Change

Electron support has been removed, unless a tester can be found

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR streamlines the build pipeline, drops legacy Debian 9 support, and adds Windows ARM64 build support.

• Bumps package version and Node engine requirement to 20+
• Removes the old Debian Dockerfile and tweaks Alpine build to constrain JOBS
• Updates GitHub workflows to include Windows ARM runners and refactors the build matrix

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 8 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

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File	Description
package.json	Version bump to 0.14.1 and requires Node ≥20.0.0
.prebuild/Dockerfile.oldDebian	Removed outdated Debian 9 build recipe
.prebuild/Dockerfile.alpine	Added ENV JOBS=1 to limit parallelism
.npmignore	Ignoring deps/ and src/ to match published files
.github/workflows/Stage 2 - Validate.yml	Expanded OS matrix (including Windows ARM), adjusted branches
.github/workflows/Prepare prebuild environment.yml	Updated node targets and added Windows ARM prebuild step
.github/workflows/Alternate Approach.yml	Refactored matrix for multi-platform builds and simplified steps

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (5)

package.json:55

• Bumping the engines field to Node >=20 drops support for Node 18 and 19; please confirm this breaking change is intended or provide compatibility notes.

    "node": ">=20.0.0 <25.0.0"

.github/workflows/Alternate Approach.yml:126

• The --platform flag was removed from the docker build command, which may cause incorrect builds on non-native targets. Reintroduce ${{ matrix.PLATFORM }} or an equivalent to ensure correct cross-platform builds.

          docker build -f .prebuild/${{ matrix.DOCKERFILE }} --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=${{ matrix.BASE_IMAGE }} --build-arg QEMU_ARCH=${{ matrix.QEMU_ARCH }} -t multiarch-build .

.github/workflows/Alternate Approach.yml:136

• There's an unexpected tab/whitespace in runner.arch == 'X64' that may break YAML parsing. Replace with a single space before ==.

        if: ${{ (runner.os == 'macOS') && (runner.arch	 == 'X64') }}

.github/workflows/Stage 2 - Validate.yml:44

• [nitpick] Including ubuntu-latest alongside explicit Ubuntu versions (ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-22.04) duplicates runs since ubuntu-latest currently maps to ubuntu-22.04; consider removing redundancy.

        os: [ubuntu-latest, ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-22.04, macos-latest, macos-15, macos-14, macos-13, windows-latest, windows-2025, windows-2022, windows-11-arm]

.github/workflows/Stage 2 - Validate.yml:44

• windows-11-arm is not a standard GitHub Actions runner label; please verify runner availability or update to a supported label for ARM builds on Windows.

        os: [ubuntu-latest, ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-22.04, macos-latest, macos-15, macos-14, macos-13, windows-latest, windows-2025, windows-2022, windows-11-arm]