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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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### 2024-09-23 - Starting to drop the CLANG32 environment
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9 months ago we started to reduce the number of packages for the 32-bit
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environments. Now we are starting to drop the CLANG32 environment. This means
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that we will no longer add new packages for this environment and will remove the
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existing ones over the next months. If this is affecting you, please let us
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know.
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While CLANG32 has some unique features in the context of MSYS2, such as being
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the only environment to use UCRT for 32-bit and the LLVM toolchain, it has seen
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very little use in our download statistics, and we don't think it's worth
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supporting any longer.
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If you are in need for a 32-bit LLVM toolchain, consider using [LLVM
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MinGW](https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw) instead.
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### 2024-07-28 - MSYS2 support in setuptools v70.0.2
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Setuptools v70.0.2 now supports mingw Python and MSYS2 natively. This eliminates

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