Appwrite Sites deployment fails because builder creates code.sqfs while sidecar requires code.tar.gz

Appwrite Cloud Sites deployments are failing consistently for both GitHub and manual deployments.

The build command completes successfully and packaging also completes successfully. Open Runtimes automatically creates:

/mnt/code/code.sqfs

Immediately afterward, the Appwrite build sidecar fails with:

[sidecar:build] Build archive was not created at /mnt/code/code.tar.gz

Troubleshooting completed:

1. Existing Appwrite Site failed from GitHub.
2. Existing Appwrite Site failed using a valid manually uploaded code.tar.gz.
3. A completely new Appwrite Site was created and connected to the same GitHub repository.
4. The new Site failed with the identical code.sqfs / code.tar.gz mismatch.
5. The static HTML/CSS build itself completes successfully.
6. The existing active deployment remains online, but no new deployment can activate.

This appears to be an Appwrite Cloud build-worker or sidecar artifact-format mismatch.

Please investigate the Sites build pipeline for this project/region.

Repository: blayderunner123/adcox-ai-site

Branch: main

New Site ID: 6a4ed0140035502cbb91

yep same

same here

just posted this didnt se the other support posts lol

Facing the same issue

is there any official acknowledgement of the issue?

AppWrite fixed the issue. They informed me they found the issue and performed a live fix. I would try again and if that does not work then open a support ticket with them

From Support

We made a release aimed at to trial a new archive format for improving cold start speeds. This new format was inadvertently enabled on production, where it was incompatible with existing build flows leading to the 'code.tar.gz' exception.