From: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <hamishmb@live.co.uk>
To: Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:18:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB3PR0202MB3561A6F75847FC5102F79666E7869@DB3PR0202MB3561.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <announce.YXkUiUYhCSURrME7@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 27/10/2021 09:57, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin wrote:
> [I sent this announcement to the Cygwin mailing list accidentally.
> Now sending it to cygwin-announce, too, to reach more people. Please
> reply on the cygwin mailing list if you have any concerns or comments]
>
>
> 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
>
Thanks for the heads up - my Cygwin-based package supports Windows 7 or
newer so this gives me some time to let users know :)
Hamish
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2021-10-27 8:57 Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce
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