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NEWS: update the win7 instructions for manual downgrades
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Since we are going to remove the update hack.
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lazka committed May 6, 2024
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### 2024-05-03 - Update to Cygwin 3.5 on Unsupported Systems

Users of Windows 7 and 8.0 will find that doing a system upgrade will abort with
the following error message:
The update to Cygwin 3.5 means MSYS2 will no longer start on long unsupported
systems like Windows 7 and 8.0.

> The MSYS2 runtime version you are about to install will no longer run
on your version of Windows. To continue using MSYS2, please switch to
the legacy runtime using:
>
> pacman --noconfirm -S msys2-runtime-3.4 msys2-runtime-3.4-devel
To keep MSYS2 running for a bit longer on such systems you can switch to the
legacy runtime using:

Please follow the instructions and let us know if there are any issues.
```console
$ pacman --noconfirm -Sy msys2-runtime-3.4 msys2-runtime-3.4-devel
```

In case you have already updated and can't start MSYS2 anymore, you can use the
following steps to downgrade:

* 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
* Copy the "msys64\usr\bin\msys-2.0.dll" from there to the same location in your existing MSYS2 installation
* Start a MSYS2 terminal and switch to the legacy runtime using the command above

### 2024-05-02 - MSYS2 on Linux (Experimental)

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