Announcing: a complete install package is now available for Ubuntu 24 LTS:

ash-7.0.1761.2-u24-x86_64.bin

This is was built from the ground up under Ubuntu 24.04, but as far as I've been able to tell, the Debian 12 (-d12) and Ubuntu 22 (-u22) packages and executables are upward compatible with Ubuntu 24.

Although the idea of getting everyone to migrate to a single Linux distribution remains a fantasy, this is probably now the "recommended' platform, replacing Ubuntu 22.

One minor adjustment to the installation though (this will filter through all the distributions as they are updated) ...

After extracting the ash_install script from the bin file...

... then, rather than using su ..

...instead use sudo ..

(Ubuntu has essentially shut down su, so sudo is the only way to go. The older ash_install scripts complained about that, but the latest one does not.)

SQL: The package contains the ASQL connector libashodbc.so.1.6.122-u24-x86_64 and has been tested with the Microsoft / Ubuntu 24 ODBC driver for SQL Server. You'll have to install the Microsoft driver from the instructions available on the web, but as a convenience, I've encapsulated them into a single script in our dist/other/asql directory ...
installodbc-u24.sh

In theory the ODBC connector should work with any database for which there is a driver available, but I haven't tried any others.
The MySQL connector is not included in the package, but can be downloaded separately from
libashmysql8.so.1.6.149-u24-x86_64.tz