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NEWS: update the win7 instructions for manual downgrades
Since we are going to remove the update hack.
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### 2024-05-03 - Update to Cygwin 3.5 on Unsupported Systems
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Users of Windows 7 and 8.0 will find that doing a system upgrade will abort with
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the following error message:
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The update to Cygwin 3.5 means MSYS2 will no longer start on long unsupported
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systems like Windows 7 and 8.0.
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> The MSYS2 runtime version you are about to install will no longer run
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on your version of Windows. To continue using MSYS2, please switch to
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the legacy runtime using:
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> pacman --noconfirm -S msys2-runtime-3.4 msys2-runtime-3.4-devel
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To keep MSYS2 running for a bit longer on such systems you can switch to the
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legacy runtime using:
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Please follow the instructions and let us know if there are any issues.
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```console
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$ pacman --noconfirm -Sy msys2-runtime-3.4 msys2-runtime-3.4-devel
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```
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In case you have already updated and can't start MSYS2 anymore, you can use the
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following steps to downgrade:
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* Get the [last MSYS2 installer release](https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2024-01-13/msys2-base-x86_64-20240113.sfx.exe) and extract it
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* Copy the "msys64\usr\bin\msys-2.0.dll" from there to the same location in your existing MSYS2 installation
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* Start a MSYS2 terminal and switch to the legacy runtime using the command above
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### 2024-05-02 - MSYS2 on Linux (Experimental)
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