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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:24:35 -0600
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On 2025-03-10 04:35, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM Dan Shelton via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> Did anyone test whether Cygwin 3.6 will still work on Windows 8? I
>> know, Win8 is unsupported, but apparently it is still needed

> https://cygwin.com/ front page says "The Cygwin DLL currently works
> with all recent, commercially released x86_64 versions of Windows,
> starting with Windows 8.1. For more information see the FAQ."

FAQ is outdated as 1.2 still says Windows 7, and Server 2008 R2, which ended 
support in 2020.

> Whether Windows 8.1 is really still supported for Cygwin 3.6, that
> only Corinna can answer.

As usual, unsupported versions are likely to be dropped on final release, as 8.1 
Extended Support ended in 2023, as did Server 2012 R2, although ESUs are 
available until 2026[-10], so ?

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