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NEWS: note the update for win 7/8 users
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This page lists important changes or issues affecting MSYS2 users. We also post them to [Twitter](https://twitter.com/msys2org) and [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@msys2org), including some not-so-important things :)
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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 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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Please follow the instructions and let us know if there are any issues.
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### 2024-04-23 - TLS/SSL Support for the Repository Rsync Server
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We have added TLS/SSL support for the repository rsync server. This means that

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