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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions web/docs/windows_support.md
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**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.

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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https://github.com/jeremyd2019/msys2-build32 is [no longer
updated](https://github.com/jeremyd2019/msys2-build32/commit/82d133b596146ecddb89d5af8c3560b31e13f726).
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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,
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