From 8ccc05ac244187b18dcb6efcf8b9749dc8531de8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Reiter Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:50:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Drop support for Windows 8.1 --- web/docs/windows_support.md | 8 +++++--- web/news.md | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/web/docs/windows_support.md b/web/docs/windows_support.md index 71caf373..3b3dfe97 100644 --- a/web/docs/windows_support.md +++ b/web/docs/windows_support.md @@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ In some cases we can't please both groups at the same time, so we have to find c **The GUI Installer:** Requires 64-bit Windows 10 (1809+) / Windows Server 2019. -**Msys/Cygwin Packages**: Requires 64-bit Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2. +**Msys/Cygwin Packages**: Requires 64-bit Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016. -**Mingw Packages**: Requires 64-bit Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2. +**Mingw Packages**: Requires 64-bit Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016. Upstream software may impose additional requirements. -**Mingw Toolchains**: MINGW32/MINGW64 environments allow targeting Windows 7+ still. All others allow targeting Windows 8.1+. +**Mingw Toolchains**: MINGW32/MINGW64 environments allow targeting Windows 7+ still. All others allow targeting Windows 10+. **Hardware Requirements**: We try to follow the minimum hardware requirements of the oldest Windows versions we support. Upstream software may impose additional requirements. @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ We no longer support these configurations, but here's a list of resources that m Various changes affecting the supported Windows versions and hardware for both pre-built packages and programs built using our toolchains. +**2026-02-28**: Dropped active support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. + **2025-11-18**: The community maintained 32-bit MSYS2 repo at https://github.com/jeremyd2019/msys2-build32 is [no longer updated](https://github.com/jeremyd2019/msys2-build32/commit/82d133b596146ecddb89d5af8c3560b31e13f726). diff --git a/web/news.md b/web/news.md index 75049146..c1dbc34a 100644 --- a/web/news.md +++ b/web/news.md @@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ summary: Important events happening. This page lists important changes or issues affecting MSYS2 users. You can [:material-rss: subscribe via RSS](../news.xml). We also post them to [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@msys2org) / [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/msys2org.bsky.social), including some not-so-important things :) +### 2026-02-28 - Dropping support for Windows 8.1 + +As Windows 8.1 has been end-of-life (EOL) for three years, Firefox has stopped +supporting it as of today, and our download statistics show that only <0.05% of +our users are on Windows 8.1, we have decided to drop support for Windows 8.1 in +MSYS2. This does not mean that things will immediately stop working on Windows +8.1, but we will no longer attempt to resolve issues specific to it. + ### 2026-02-01 - Rust Cygwin packages update Back in September we got our first Rust-based Cygwin package with fish shell v4,