MS Windows 8.1 EoL today

MS Windows 8.1 EoL today

[Brian Inglis]

Hi folks,

As MS Windows 8.1 has gone EoL today:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-81?source=recommendations

with Chrome, Edge, and other product support also ending this month, is Cygwin 
3.4.3 also the last release to support that and equivalent server releases, and 
should that be clarified on the web pages and announcements.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis			Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte			Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter	not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer	but when there is no more to cut
			-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Re: MS Windows 8.1 EoL today

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 10 14:42, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> As MS Windows 8.1 has gone EoL today:
> 
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-81?source=recommendations
> 
> with Chrome, Edge, and other product support also ending this month, is
> Cygwin 3.4.3 also the last release to support that and equivalent server
> releases, and should that be clarified on the web pages and announcements.

There are no plans to drop 8.1 support any time soon, and all 3.4.x
versions will continue to run on Windows 7 and later, as already
outlined in basically all cygwin package announcements since Cygwin
3.3.0:

https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2021-October/010268.html
[...]
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-December/010831.html

Only the 3.4.3 release announcement is missing this info accidentally.


Corinna

Re: MS Windows 8.1 EoL today

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-01-11 9:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 10 14:42, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>> As MS Windows 8.1 has gone EoL today:
>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-81?source=recommendations
>> with Chrome, Edge, and other product support also ending this month, is
>> Cygwin 3.4.3 also the last release to support that and equivalent server
>> releases, and should that be clarified on the web pages and announcements.

> There are no plans to drop 8.1 support any time soon, and all 3.4.x
> versions will continue to run on Windows 7 and later, as already
> outlined in basically all cygwin package announcements since Cygwin
> 3.3.0:
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2021-October/010268.html
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-December/010831.html
> Only the 3.4.3 release announcement is missing this info accidentally.

Thanks for the clarification.
I was just in touch with curl upstream to drop their Downloads web page Cygwin 
x86 32 bit section, and clarify update availability, and was unsure whether that 
EoL affected anything.
I will edit https://github.com/curl/curl-www/issues/216 to clarify that for 
future searchers.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis			Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte			Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter	not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer	but when there is no more to cut
			-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry