[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.4.2-1

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Dec 11 12:08:52 GMT 2022


The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:

* cygwin-3.4.2-1
* cygwin-devel-3.4.2-1
* cygwin-doc-3.4.2-1

This is a bugfix release.

- Fix regression in uname(2), accidentally adding a leading dot to
  utsname::machine.

==========================================================================
                   IMPORTANT DEPRECATION NOTES
==========================================================================

- Cygwin 3.4 is the FIRST major version dropping support for

  - 32 bit Windows including WOW64 on 64 bit Windows.
  - Windows Vista
  - Windows Server 2008

- Cygwin 3.4 is the LAST major version supporting

  - Windows 7
  - Windows Server 2008 R2
  - Windows 8
  - Windows Server 2012

- Cygwin 3.5, which will probably be release at some point in late 2023,
  will run on

  - Windows 8.1
  - Windows 10
  - Windows 11
  - Windows Server 2012 R2
  - Windows Server 2016
  - Windows Server 2019
  - Windows Server 2022


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