[HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

[Peter A. Castro]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 06:52:02PM -0400, Michel LaBarre wrote:

Greetings, Michel & Corinna,

> Corinna , thank you for the heads up regarding subsequent updates wrt Window
> 7.
> 
> Would it be possible to create a short "how-to" for installing the most
> recently "known-to-work-with-Windows-7" version of Cygwin (presuming that
> old versions remain accessible indefinitely...).  Alternately, how one can
> download a repository now that is compatible with Windows 7 and useable for
> installing Cygwin in anticipation of the upcoming loss of support.

As these milestones occur I will make notes in the Cygwin Time Machine
concerning the ending release snapshot and installers, like what I have
for the last XP release.

Corinna, I presume you will post when these milestones occur so that we
have a more exact message in the Cygwin mail archive?

> I have old machines that cannot be updated to Windows 10 (hybrid graphics
> hardware) that I use for background activities that I may someday need to
> rebuild.
>
> Thank you very much for all your efforts.
> 
> Michel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cygwin [mailto:cygwin-bounces+michel.labarre=rogers.com@cygwin.com] On
> Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> Sent: October 26, 2021 4:55 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: Corinna Vinschen
> Subject: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> The upcoming version 3.3.0 is the last version officially supporting
> Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
> 
> The next major release 3.4.0 will be released in 2022 and will be the
> last one officially supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008
> R2, and Windows Server 2012.
> 
> We're also planning to drop Support for the 32 bit release of Cygwin in
> 2022, thus Cygwin 3.4.0 won't come in 32 bit anymore, and the package
> maintainers won't have to update 32 bit packages anymore.  If you're
> still running Cygwin under WOW64, consider to move to 64 bit in the next
> couple of months.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 
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