fix(release): install pinned canary Deno via direct download

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Summary

Follow-up to #1308. The release job now fails with:

Run denoland/setup-deno@v2
  with:
    deno-version: canary-19bd3d8b99d92f15d20692aca02ac059bbc9ada7
Error: The passed version range is not valid.

denoland/setup-deno@v2 only accepts canary (latest, non-reproducible) for the canary channel — the canary-<sha> form is parsed as a semver range and rejected. My previous PR was wrong about that syntax.

Change

Replace the Setup Deno step with a direct download of the pinned artifact from https://dl.deno.land/canary/<sha>/deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip and prepend the install directory to GITHUB_PATH so subsequent deno run / deno compile invocations pick it up. The SHA is still read from scripts/deno_canary.txt (the existing single source of truth), so reproducibility is preserved.

The release runner is ubuntu-latest, so we only need the linux x86_64 host artifact — deno compile then cross-compiles to the other targets and fetches the matching cross-target denort from dl.deno.land/canary/<sha>/ itself (verified all five denort-*.zip artifacts are present at the pinned SHA).

The CANARY-BRIDGE marker stays in place; the back-out checklist in scripts/deno_canary.txt already references this step.

Test plan

• Merge → release runs → confirm log shows Pinned Deno canary: 19bd3d8b..., the unzip succeeds, and deno --version prints the canary build.
• Subsequent deno run -A scripts/compile.ts steps log Download https://dl.deno.land/canary/19bd3d8b.../denort-...zip (not release/v2.7.14/).
• Re-run the swamp-club Deploy job on the resulting stable swamp; the S3 upload should complete without the tls_wrap.rs:2018:31 panic.

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Code Review

Blocking Issues

None.

Suggestions

1. Back-out checklist drift (scripts/deno_canary.txt:21-23): Step 3 of the checklist still references the old two-step approach ("delete the 'Resolve Deno canary SHA' step … and change the Setup Deno step's deno-version back to v2.x"). This PR consolidated those into a single "Install pinned canary Deno" step and removed the setup-deno action entirely. Consider updating the checklist to say something like: "In .github/workflows/release.yml, delete the 'Install pinned canary Deno' step (marked CANARY-BRIDGE) and replace it with a denoland/setup-deno@v2 step pinned to v2.8.x (or the desired stable line)." Not blocking since this is a temporary bridge that will be removed wholesale when v2.8.0 ships — whoever follows the checklist will easily figure it out.

2. No integrity check on the downloaded zip: The curl download doesn't verify a checksum of the fetched artifact. This is consistent with how denoland/setup-deno itself handles canary builds (no hash verification there either), and the download is over HTTPS from Deno's official CDN, so the practical risk is very low. Noting it for completeness only.

Overall: clean, well-motivated fix. The comment block explains the "why" clearly, the SHA is sourced from the reviewed repo file, curl -f will fail loudly on HTTP errors, and deno --version at the end provides a smoke check. LGTM.

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CI Security Review

Critical / High

None.

Medium

1. No integrity verification of downloaded binary (release.yml:53): The curl download from dl.deno.land trusts the server to return the correct artifact — there is no checksum verification after download. However, this is the same trust boundary as the previous denoland/setup-deno@v2 approach (which itself downloads from dl.deno.land), and the SHA-pinned URL is actually more deterministic than the tag-pinned action it replaces. Suggested improvement (non-blocking): If Deno publishes checksums for canary builds, verify sha256sum after download.

Low

1. Pre-existing: Docker actions use tag-only pins (release.yml:222-256): docker/setup-qemu-action@v3, docker/setup-buildx-action@v3, docker/login-action@v3, and docker/build-push-action@v6 are pinned by tag rather than full SHA. These are from Docker (trusted publisher) and are not introduced by this PR.

Verdict

PASS — The change is security-neutral to slightly positive. It replaces a tag-pinned third-party action (denoland/setup-deno@v2) with a deterministic, SHA-pinned direct download. The SHA is sourced from scripts/deno_canary.txt checked out from main (line 29 ref: main), so it requires repo write access to tamper with. No untrusted input is interpolated in the new run: block, no new secrets are introduced, and no expression injection vectors are created.