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What is wrong

core/scripts/load-versions.sh states the rule in its own header:

The VERSIONS file is the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH for all versions.
DO NOT hardcode version fallbacks in scripts - always source this file.

Two download scripts carry one anyway, and both literals are stale:

script fallback canonical in core/VERSIONS
core/scripts/linux/download-sherpa-onnx.sh:26 1.12.18 1.13.5
core/scripts/windows/download-sherpa-onnx.bat:24 1.12.23 1.13.5

They were not mirrored through the 1.13.2 bump, nor the 1.13.5 one in #718, so they now sit two minor versions behind.

Why it matters now

engines/sherpa/sherpa_backend.cpp refuses Nemotron 3.5 prompted streaming ASR below 1.13.5, with a comment added in #718 explaining that a 1.13.4 runtime loads the graph but decodes it incorrectly. A build that quietly picks up 1.12.x therefore produces a runtime that cannot serve a model the catalog now offers, and the failure surfaces later as a version-rejection at inference time rather than at build time.

The Windows path is reachable today. :load_versions does if not exist "%VERSIONS_FILE%" exit /b 1, but exit /b only leaves the subroutine and the caller never checks the result, so a missing VERSIONS file falls straight through to 1.12.23.

On Linux the missing-file case is caught, since source returning non-zero trips set -e. A renamed or removed key is not: the loader succeeds without exporting, and :- supplies the stale literal.

What this does

Makes both fail closed, which deletes the stale numbers instead of updating them.

This is what every other platform already does. The macOS and iOS sherpa scripts error out when the variable is absent, and on Linux the three variables on the lines immediately below this one already use :?:

REPOSITORY="${SHERPA_ONNX_REPO_DESKTOP:?SHERPA_ONNX_REPO_DESKTOP is not set}"
RELEASE_TAG="${SHERPA_ONNX_RELEASE_TAG_DESKTOP:?...}"
SOURCE_COMMIT="${SHERPA_ONNX_COMMIT_DESKTOP:?...}"

So VERSION was the one variable in that group that guessed.

Verification

bash -n on the Linux script passes.

Normal path, with VERSIONS sourced as the script does:

$ source core/scripts/load-versions.sh && echo "${SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX:?}"
1.13.5

The behaviour change with the key absent:

# before
$ V="${SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX:-1.12.18}"; echo "built against: $V"; echo $?
built against: 1.12.18
0

# after
$ V="${SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX:?...}"
bash: SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX: SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX is not set (load-versions.sh should export it from core/VERSIONS)
# non-zero

I also grepped the tree for 1.12.18 and 1.12.23 to be sure nothing else depended on those values; there are no other references.

I could not execute the .bat on this machine, so that half is a read of the control flow rather than something I ran. It is the same one-line shape as the Linux change and matches the file's existing echo [ERROR] ... / exit /b 1 idiom used in four other places.

No test added: these are build-time download scripts with no harness, and the check that matters is the one above.

…ersion

`core/scripts/load-versions.sh` says it plainly:

    The VERSIONS file is the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH for all versions.
    DO NOT hardcode version fallbacks in scripts - always source this file.

Two download scripts carry one anyway, and both literals are stale:

    core/scripts/linux/download-sherpa-onnx.sh:26
      VERSION="${SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX:-1.12.18}"
    core/scripts/windows/download-sherpa-onnx.bat:24
      if not defined SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_WINDOWS set "...=1.12.23"

Canonical is now 1.13.5 for both platforms, so these were not mirrored through
the 1.13.2 bump or the 1.13.5 one in RunanywhereAI#718. That matters more than usual now:
sherpa_backend.cpp rejects Nemotron 3.5 prompted streaming ASR below 1.13.5, so
a build that quietly picks up 1.12.x produces a runtime that cannot serve a
model the catalog offers.

The Windows path is reachable today. `call :load_versions` returns 1 when
VERSIONS is missing, the caller never checks it, and the next line then invents
1.12.23. On Linux the sourcing failure is caught by `set -e`, but a renamed or
removed key still lands on the literal instead of failing.

Every other platform already fails closed: the macOS and iOS sherpa scripts
error out when the variable is absent, and the three variables on the lines
right below the Linux one use `:?` to do exactly that. This makes those two
match, which also deletes the stale numbers rather than updating them.
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The Linux and Windows Sherpa-ONNX download scripts no longer use fallback versions. Each script now requires its platform-specific version variable and exits when the variable is missing.

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Sherpa-ONNX version validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Require configured versions
core/scripts/linux/download-sherpa-onnx.sh, core/scripts/windows/download-sherpa-onnx.bat
The scripts validate SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX and SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_WINDOWS. Missing variables produce an error and terminate the download.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a193a

The scripts are intended to fail instead of silently selecting an outdated Sherpa version, but inherited environment values can still bypass that safeguard on Linux and Windows. This may produce builds with the wrong runtime version, so the PR needs a targeted fix or explicit owner acceptance before merge.

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In `@core/scripts/linux/download-sherpa-onnx.sh`:
- Line 26: Clear SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX before the version-loading step in
core/scripts/linux/download-sherpa-onnx.sh so the script requires the canonical
value from core/VERSIONS; at core/scripts/windows/download-sherpa-onnx.bat lines
24-27, clear SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_WINDOWS before call :load_versions and reject a
failed loader result before using the version.
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source "${ROOT_DIR}/scripts/load-versions.sh"

VERSION="${SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX:-1.12.18}"
VERSION="${SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX:?SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX is not set (load-versions.sh should export it from core/VERSIONS)}"

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require versions loaded from core/VERSIONS.

Both scripts can accept stale inherited environment values when the canonical key is missing.

  • core/scripts/linux/download-sherpa-onnx.sh#L26-L26: clear SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX before loading versions.
  • core/scripts/windows/download-sherpa-onnx.bat#L24-L27: clear SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_WINDOWS before call :load_versions and reject loader failure.
📍 Affects 2 files
  • core/scripts/linux/download-sherpa-onnx.sh#L26-L26 (this comment)
  • core/scripts/windows/download-sherpa-onnx.bat#L24-L27
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In `@core/scripts/linux/download-sherpa-onnx.sh` at line 26, Clear
SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_LINUX before the version-loading step in
core/scripts/linux/download-sherpa-onnx.sh so the script requires the canonical
value from core/VERSIONS; at core/scripts/windows/download-sherpa-onnx.bat lines
24-27, clear SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION_WINDOWS before call :load_versions and reject a
failed loader result before using the version.

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Heads up on the red python-linux (3.9) and (3.12) cells here: they are not from this diff.

Both are red on main too, at b2d2ff6d (run 32011099890), with "The job has exceeded the maximum execution time of 1h30m0s". The job hangs inside auditwheel repair because the prep step's ln -sf libonnxruntime.so lib/libonnxruntime.so.1 overwrites the middle link of the chain the new RunAnywhere desktop prebuilt ships, turning libonnxruntime.so and libonnxruntime.so.1 into a symlink loop.

I opened #736 with the evidence and a one-line guard. Nothing to do on this PR; every other check here is green.

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