From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 93120 invoked by alias); 8 May 2017 11:06:35 -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 93102 invoked by uid 89); 8 May 2017 11:06:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,KAM_EXEURI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Settings, explorer, undocumented, site X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 May 2017 11:06:33 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0562082A for ; Mon, 8 May 2017 07:06:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 08 May 2017 07:06:34 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host31-51-207-210.range31-51.btcentralplus.com [31.51.207.210]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3349A246E7 for ; Mon, 8 May 2017 07:06:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.gmane.org:119 To: The Cygwin Mailing List From: Jon Turney Subject: setup release candidate - please test Message-ID: Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 11:11:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-05/txt/msg00102.txt.bz2 A setup release candidate is available at: https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86.exe https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe Since this changes the way we download files, I think this can use some wider testing before release. Please test and give feedback to cygwin@cygwin.com. If no regressions are discovered in the next few days, it will be promoted to release. Changes compared to 2.877: - "Direct Connection" now uses the WinINet API to fetch URLs. This enables HTTPS and FTPS protocol support, and caching of mirrors.lst and setup.ini. The existing, hand-built URL fetching, which only supports HTTP and FTP, is still available by choosing "Direct (legacy)". - Fixes to "Use Internet Explorer Proxy Settings" mode Progress is now reported for downloads. Unwanted caching in "Temporary Internet Files" of package archives has been fixed. (Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-09/msg00403.html) A bug causing a long delay before downloading setup.ini from package repositories without a compressed setup.ini has been fixed. - Add --allow-unsupported-windows option Don't check the windows version. The Cygwin mirror list is not read, so a URL (e.g. a Cygwin time machine circa) should be given with --site or via the GUI. - Remove support for some long-obsolete setup.ini syntax (omitted version:, omitted size and checksum, various undocumented tokens) - Remove cruft -- 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