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+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    - cron:  '0 9 * * *'
+
+name: Nightly Release Linux arm64/aarch64
+    
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: build and package nightly release
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, ARM64]
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: create version.txt
+        run: ./ci/write_version.sh
+
+      - name: build release with lto
+        run: cargo build --profile=release-with-lto --locked --bin roc 
+
+      - name: get commit SHA
+        run:  echo "SHA=$(git rev-parse --short "$GITHUB_SHA")" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        
+      - name: get date
+        run: echo "DATE=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        
+      - name: build file name
+        env:
+            DATE: ${{ env.DATE }}
+            SHA: ${{ env.SHA }}
+        run: echo "RELEASE_FOLDER_NAME=roc_nightly-linux_arm64-$DATE-$SHA" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      # this makes the roc binary a lot smaller
+      - name: strip debug info
+        run: strip ./target/release-with-lto/roc
+       
+      - name: Make nightly release tar archive
+        run: ./ci/package_release.sh ${{ env.RELEASE_FOLDER_NAME }}
+
+      - name: Upload roc nightly tar. Actually uploading to github releases has to be done manually.
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+           name: ${{ env.RELEASE_FOLDER_NAME }}.tar.gz
+           path: ${{ env.RELEASE_FOLDER_NAME }}.tar.gz
+           retention-days: 4