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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 The RISE Project
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+---
+# This workflow is based on the `package-wheel` job of:
+# https://github.com/aio-libs/aiokafka/blob/v0.14.0/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+name: Build aiokafka wheels (riscv64)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'aiokafka version to build (git tag without leading v, e.g. 0.14.0)'
+        required: true
+        default: '0.14.0'
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-aiokafka.yml'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ inputs.version || '0.14.0' }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read  # to fetch code (actions/checkout)
+
+env:
+  # `inputs.version` is empty on pull_request events; default to 0.14.0 there.
+  AIOKAFKA_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version || '0.14.0' }}
+  MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_39_riscv64
+
+jobs:
+  setup:
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_setup.yml
+
+  build_wheels:
+    needs: [setup]
+    name: Build aiokafka ${{ inputs.version || '0.14.0' }} ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        # Per-interpreter (not abi3): the Cython extensions link the version-specific ABI.
+        python:
+          - "cp312"
+          - "cp313"
+          - "cp314"
+          - "cp314t"
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout aiokafka v${{ env.AIOKAFKA_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          repository: aio-libs/aiokafka
+          ref: v${{ env.AIOKAFKA_VERSION }}
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
+        with:
+          output-dir: wheelhouse/
+          only: ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+        env:
+          CIBW_MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: ${{ env.MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE }}
+          CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD_LINUX: pip install -r requirements-cython.txt && yum install -y zlib-devel
+          CIBW_ENVIRONMENT: PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://pypi.riseproject.dev/simple/
+          # The repo-root aiokafka/ would otherwise shadow the installed wheel's
+          # compiled extension; stage only the suite and its pytest config.
+          CIBW_TEST_SOURCES: tests pyproject.toml
+          # Pin to upstream's own requirements-ci.txt versions: newer pytest turns
+          # test_requests.py's generator-based parametrize into a hard failure under
+          # this project's `filterwarnings = ["error"]`. gssapi is skipped - it needs
+          # krb5 headers and is only exercised by the docker-backed SASL tests below.
+          CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: >-
+            pytest==9.0.2 pytest-asyncio==1.3.0 pytest-cov==7.0.0 pytest-mock==3.15.1
+            docker cramjam
+          # cp314t: the Cython extensions use single-phase init, so 3.14t re-enables
+          # the GIL on import and warns; fatal under filterwarnings=["error"] (gotcha 127).
+          CIBW_TEST_ENVIRONMENT: PIP_ONLY_BINARY=cramjam PYTHON_GIL=1
+          # No --docker-image: upstream's own wheel-test jobs run this same way, since
+          # none of them have a Kafka broker either. Tests needing one skip themselves.
+          CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: python -m pytest tests
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: aiokafka-${{ env.AIOKAFKA_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+          path: wheelhouse/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish aiokafka ${{ inputs.version || '0.14.0' }}
+    needs: [setup, build_wheels]
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_publish-wheel.yml
+    with:
+      artifact-pattern: aiokafka-${{ inputs.version || '0.14.0' }}-*-manylinux_riscv64