From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3226 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2014 17:56:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 3167 invoked by uid 89); 25 Oct 2014 17:56:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-HELO: localhost.localdomain Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.localdomain) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:56:19 +0000 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:56:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: windows-default-manifest-6.4-1 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00423.txt.bz2 Hi folks, I just uploaded windows-default-manifest-6.4-1. This adds the OS GUID for Windows 10 to the default manifest file. This package contains nothing but a default application compatibility manifest, which gets linked in by GCC by default, and which is supposed to claim compatibility with the latest Windows versions available at the time. Adding such a manifest got necessary due to a change in Windows 8.1. On earlier OS versions, applications without manifest were treated as compatible with the current OS. Starting with Windows 8.1, an executable without manifest is treated as being compatible only with the oldest supported OS version of the OS compatibility layer. That means, all applications without manifest are running in a Window Vista compatibility layer on Windows 8.1. This affects all Cygwin executables to date. By adding the default manifest to newly built packages, we're slowly getting to run our executables with full OS compatibility. This package is in the "Base" category, so it will be pulled in by default. The version number reflects the OS kernel version supported by this manifest (6.4 == Windows 10). Keep calm and carry on, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple