Updated: setup (2.917)

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Jan 24 20:02:53 GMT 2022


A new version of Setup (2.917) has been uploaded to:

  https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe  (64 bit version)
  https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe     (32 bit version)

Changes compared to 2.915:

- Show a warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

Support for:
- Windows 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008)
- 32-bit Windows (including WoW64)
in Cygwin is deprecated and will be removed in the next major version, 
sometime this year.

This warning can be disabled with the '--no-warn-deprecated-windows' or 
'-w' option, or using a "In the future, do not show me this dialogue 
box" checkbox.

- Fix setup silently exiting if elevated and 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks:lnk' is 
in the environment (by ignoring that environment variable)
   Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-January/250523.html

- Fix creating bogus versions of obsoleted packages (under certain 
specific circumstances), which then fail to download because they don't 
exist!
   Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-January/250604.html

For instructions on obtaining and building the source code for setup, 
see https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html

Please send bug reports, as usual, to the public mailing list cygwin AT 
cygwin DOT com.


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