Merge pull request #2539 from h-vetinari/vs2022

add announcement for moving to VS2022

Author: h-vetinari

news/2025-06-11-moving-to-vs2022.md

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+# Moving to Visual Studio 2022 as default windows compiler
+
+Microsoft's Visual Studio (VS) 2019 compiler has reached its
+[end of life](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/visual-studio-2019)
+over a year ago. In the meantime, several projects have moved on and
+fail to compile with VS2019.
+
+We are planning to update our default compilers on windows to the (fully compatible)
+successor VS2022 in one week from now.
+
+This will not affect you as a general user of conda-forge packages on windows;
+the only potential impact is that if you are compiling locally with VS2019 against
+artefacts produced by conda-forge, you might be required to upgrade.
+
+For more details see https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/2138.