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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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### 2024-07-28 - 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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the need for SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib when building C extensions,
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enabling "pip install" to just work for most packages without extra steps.
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With the stdlib distutils now no longer being required to build packages we can
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continue our work to update to Python 3.12.
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### 2024-07-08 - File conflicts when updating python
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Due to the recent Python 3.12 update missing .pyc files, you might see file

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