[jeremyprime]

Summary

Backport the CD fixes merged to main since release-2.6-pool-preview was cut, so the v2.6.0-rc1 CD can be re-dispatched from this branch with the fixes present. These are the fixes for the CD jobs that failed on the initial rc1 cut (Python/Java/npm), plus the follow-up that fixes a shell parse error #7358 introduced in the npm-cd matrix step.

Clean cherry-picks with no conflicts -- the resulting tree is byte-for-byte identical to main, and no non-CD commits are included.

Issue link

This Pull Request backports:

• ci(python): Pin cibuildwheel below 4.3 in pypi-cd
• ci(python): raise PyPI macOS wheel build timeout to 240 minutes
• ci(node): resolve CD runner into RUNNER to fix ARM64 runner routing
• ci(java): cap release-validation benchmark at 100 concurrent tasks
• ci(node): test published x86 darwin package on Intel runner
• ci(node): move npm-cd matrix comment out of the jq string to fix shell parse

Features / Behaviour Changes

None -- CI-only. No change to shipped artifacts or client behaviour. These fix the rc1 CD jobs so PyPI/Java/npm publish correctly and the npm matrix routes runners (and tests the x86 macOS package) correctly.

Testing

CI-only backport. Each commit was validated on main via its own PR. The cherry-picked branch's tree is identical to main, confirming no drift was introduced in the port.

Checklist

Before submitting the PR make sure the following are checked:

• This Pull Request is related to one issue.
• Commit message has a detailed description of what changed and why.
• Tests are added or updated.
• CHANGELOG.md and documentation files are updated.
• Linters have been run (make *-lint targets) and Prettier has been run (make prettier-fix).
• Destination branch is correct - main or release
• Create merge commit if merging release branch into main, squash otherwise.
• Make sure to update the documentation in the valkey-glide-docs repository if necessary

[valkey-review-bot]

Review state

Ready for human review.
Six CD workflow fixes from main, cherry-picked cleanly. The new #7360 commit moves the x86 darwin comment out of the jq program into a bash comment, which fixes the parse error. No matrix.runner references are left, and x86_64-apple-darwin in build-matrix.json does build on macos-15 (CD_RUNNER) and test on macos-15-intel. No findings.

Risk: Low. CI-only changes to the CD workflows. A mistake would fail or misroute a release job on this branch and would not affect shipped client code.

Open findings: none.

Backport: Not needed. The PR targets the release-2.6-pool-preview branch, so it is already a backport of CI-only fixes from main.

_{Updated for 03b6110 at 2026-10-16 15:56 UTC. The bot rewrites this comment on every review.}