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installer: drop support for Windows 7 and 8.0 #479
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As announced in July 2022, Git for Windows is dropping support for these older Windows versions, following MSYS2's lead. Let's make sure that the installer actively blocks installation on these versions. Ref: https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/main/ReleaseNotes.md#changes-since-git-for-windows-v2371-july-12th-2022 Ref: https://github.com/msys2/msys2.github.io/blob/source/web/news.md#2023-01-15---dropping-support-for-windows-7-and-80 Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
While that is true, I forgot to repeat that warning in quite a few releases since then. That's why I added the warning again, for the next release yesterday. So I think that this PR might need a while before it can be merged. But you got me thinking: maybe we should warn users who install the next Git for Windows version if their Windows version will soon no longer be supported? Something similar to the warning about a downgrade, except instead of checking for the Git for Windows version we would check for the Windows version, similar to what we do when detecting support for symbolic links)? And once the time actually comes to drop Windows 7/8.0 support, the big change will be to upgrade to MSYS2 runtime v3.5.* (which is not even available yet because Cygwin did not release any v3.5.* version yet). But maybe we should follow Cygwin's lead in prominently declaring one version "the last one to support Windows 7"? Like they do on their home page:
Given how finicky even something like the |
Given that MSYS2 runtime v3.5.0 will drop support for Windows 7/8, but v3.4.0 already dropped i686 support, I realized that the latter is much more pressing. I opened git-for-windows/git#4279 for that. |
Ok, let's just mark this PR as draft then. Feel free to close this completely if you feel this is premature 👍🏼 |
Oh, let's keep it open. I would not even have minded keeping it in non-draft mode ;-) |
git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1418 Git Credential Manager is now also working on dropping support for Windows 7/8. EDIT: Unlike this PR, that also means no more Windows 8.1 support |
/add relnote bug The installer now correctly blocks the installation on Windows 7 and Windows 8 as these versions of Windows are no longer supported since Git for Windows v2.47.0 The workflow run was started |
As announced in July 2022, Git for Windows is dropping support for these older Windows versions, following MSYS2's lead. Let's make sure that the installer actively blocks the installation process on these versions. The minimal Windows version is now 8.1 (6.3).
Looking ahead: if the minimum version reaches
10.0
, GfW could choose to switch toCLANG64
instead of the currentMINGW64
, which is using the more modernucrt
C library. Our recent work onCLANGARM64
support paves the way for this potential future switch ✨