[ANNOUNCEMENT] [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

[Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty]

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